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msmardin · 4 years

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𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐥𝐞.

name: lale allen mardin.

age: thirty-four years old.

birthday: 13th september, 1986.

height: 157 cm, or 5′2.

build: slender, soft and feminine. hourglass figure. very little muscle tone.

tattoos and piercings: each of her earlobes, once, and that’s all.

where were you born: istanbul, turkey.

city you live in: london.

suburb of city you live in: hampstead village.

relationship status: recently ( very publicly ) divorced.

children: none.

next of kin: her father, johnathan allen.

siblings: she has three adoptive sisters and one biological twin brother, but i don’t want to name them because i plan on putting in connections for them at some point, so i want to leave that open.

sexuality: bisexual.

occupation: retired actress. screenwriter.

how did you get your job: she expressed her interest in acting at an early age, so her fathers began taking her to auditions when she was just a little girl. the older she got, the less and less she enjoyed being in front of the camera, though — like acting was an old pair of shoes that she’d outgrown. so eventually she retired, and began screenwriting instead. thus far, it’s been far more fulfilling for her.

education: no further than secondary school. she’s intelligent, she just never had the time.

illnesses/allergies: none.

star sign: virgo.

temperament: phlegmatic.

personality type: infj.

what are their three flaws: she’s stubborn to no end. her ex husband always thought that was a charming trait, while they were still in their honeymoon phase. she’s also very introverted, and not always the best at communicating her own feelings. it makes her seem alluringly mysterious when you first get to know her, but again... in the long run, it can cause some friction in a relationship — platonic or otherwise. she’s a creature of habit, not exactly adventurous, and getting her out of her comfort zone can be a chore.

𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬.

favourite smell: anything earthy or woodsy. she prefers unisex perfumes for that reason.

favourite food: authentic tacos.

favourite drink: red wine. cabernet sauvignon or syrah, preferably.

favourite sweets: baklava.

favourite colour: blue.

favourite thing to collect: vinyl records, and shoes.

favourite music: fleetwood mac, queen, david bowie, etc.

favourite book genre: nonfiction. she loves a good memoir.

favourite item of clothing: gold hoop earrings.

favourite time of year: autumn.

favourite hobby: writing. dancing, but strictly in private.

favourite kink: praise.

𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝.

lale was born in istanbul, turkey. — she only lived there until she was three years old, however, so she doesn’t remember her childhood in turkey at all. both she and her twin brother grew up in foster care until they were adopted by a couple from london. johnathan allen, one of her fathers, is originally from boston. yusuf mardin, her other father, was similarly born in turkey and later relocated to the uk. neither of her dads ever required any of their five adopted children to call them dad, so growing up, lale eventually came to call them john and joe respectively.

the first rule of the allen mardin household is that no one is discouraged from doing what they want to do with their lives. so when lale wanted to become an actress when she was just five years old... that’s what she got to do.

very mary kate and ashley olsen esque, she got a role in a popular sitcom. the show ran for ten seasons in the early 90s. she could probably retire on the money that she gets from the syndication of those rerun episodes alone, but lale went on to have a relatively impressive acting career. she stuck to television until she was in her 20s. she moved out to hollywood when she was 22 and began getting roles in films — action and horror movies, most often. in movies, she quickly gained a reputation as a scream queen, final girl type.

she met her husband while auditioning for the cult classic the cove. it was a slasher film, centered around a group of young twenty-somethings vacationing in a cabin on a lake. the plot was rather simple: one by one, the characters die in gory and memorable ways. the last character standing was kate. the final girl. attractive, brunette, a cheerleader for the college football team. lale landed the role. two weeks into filming, she started having an affair with the director. six months later, they were married.

she was 26 at the time, and hindsight is 20/20. they weren’t a couple that was meant to last, although they tried to make it work. at the age of 29, lale retired from acting altogether and began screenwriting instead. at 30, she grew more and more distant from her husband, spending more time in london with her family than she did in los angeles with him. it didn’t come as much of a shock when she found out that he was cheating on her. didn’t come as much of a shock to her, anyway. the media had a field day with it, like they always do.

lale filed for divorce a year go. the whole thing was public, portrayed as far more nasty in the press than it truly was behind the scenes, and exited the news cycle about six months ago now.

afterward, lale invested £6 million on a home in hampstead village and turned all of her attention to writing her next script.

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