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Name: Emmaline "Emmy" Mellier (also called Em, Emma, etc.)

Gender: Female

Age: 28

Position: Production manager. Em's job is to handle all the administration involved in creating the film: scheduling, budgeting, staffing, location scouting, transportation/storage/facilities/hotels, and so on. She's in charge of all the logistics of the project, and works from a production trailer on set (or from an office, if the set is close enough). Em is in charge of all the production assistants and coordinators, as well as the script supervisor, location manager, property master, and so on. She exists to enable the creatives - the director, actors, editors, designers, etc. - by making sure they have everything they need to do their jobs. The buck stops with her for all non-creative decisions.

The job keeps Emmaline ridiculously busy, especially during shooting and post-production. She'll work fourteen or sixteen-hour days, or more, and she gets precious little time to herself while she's working for a film. Every day has some new crisis, some problem nobody else can solve. This requires her to have an absolutely no-nonsense attitude. She doesn't screw up very often and she expects the people under her to be pretty much perfect. While it's hard to fluster or upset her, her laser-focus on the job can be mistaken for irritation or displeasure. She's a decent boss despite that: good at delegating, willing to accept responsibility, understanding but enough of a hardass that things get done. She toes the line between harsh and fair surprisingly well, and nobody can argue with the amount of work she puts in, or the results. To make things easier on herself and everyone else, she tends to hand-select people for the jobs in her purview. She doesn't want someone who won't be able to work at her speed, and she's got no reservations about firing people who won't do the work.

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Em is quite pretty, and when she cleans up, she's absolutely gorgeous - but her job leaves her with no time to care about any of that. None of the pictures I've used are really representative, because she's pretty put-together in all of them. She has a great dress-sense (lots of vintage stuff, fashionable clothes when she has time to keep up with fashions), but that's about it. Most days, there's no makeup, no styling, her hair is up in a tight bun (that progressively falls apart throughout the day), and she wears just a loose-fitting dress and a pair of shoes (always flat, often boots; she'll usually comfortable over professional). She stands about 5' 6'' and walks with a determined stride. Something about the way she fixes her light-green eyes on people make it seem like she's looking not quite through them, but more into them, like she's figured them out already and she's just waiting for them to realize.

A lot of things about Emmy feel like that - like no matter what's happening, she's already figured it out. She's already in control. Certainty rolls off of her like sweat. It's nothing particular about her that can be put into words, it's something less clear, maybe a combination of how she looks and how she moves and the assertive way she talks. It's halfway between charisma and wisdom, and it makes her seem, sometimes, much older than she really is. When people look at her, they don't see just a pretty redheaded girl with tired eyes - they see someone who is something, who knows something. Emmy's presence is probably her greatest asset.

Personality: On a superficial level, Emmy is lovely: Vocal, intelligent, charming. She makes a fantastic first impression, and it's not an illusion, either. Emmaline is charming, and intelligent, and she's most certainly vocal. She comes across as determined, capable, and hard-working. She can be a little intimidating because of how focused she gets, and it can seem like a lot of her charm is disingenuous, but it isn't: Em is every bit what she seems. The problem isn't that how she appears and who she actually is is inconsistent, but rather that it's that how she appears and who she actually is is much more complex then that, and most of it isn't readily apparent to anybody who might know her casually.

Em has a lot of drive, but she has no idea where or how she wants to use it. She channels it into her work, and she does a great job, but being production manager doesn't make her feel anything in particular. Really, Emmy wishes she was a creative. She doesn't know what exactly she wants to do - maybe acting, maybe directing, but she has no formal training in either. She represses these thoughts; the difficulty of work makes it easy to ignore them, but they never really go away. She talks about it sometimes, mostly when drunk, but she's never had an opportunity to anything serious with it. The dream in the back of her mind is that she'll make the leap from production manager to being a part of the production, maybe even directing, but realistically she doesn't really see that happening.

Emmy gets along pretty well with her colleagues, especially the ones around her age. There's a certain amount of camaraderie that comes from being involved in a big production, and that's one of the things she loves most about her job. Despite her natural confidence, she does get nervous around superiors - producers and directors - but she manages to hide it pretty well in favor of getting the job done. She usually tries not to interact much with the actors, especially if they're big-name ones (they usually have their own entourages anyway). She believes firmly that famous people don't want to spend their day being reminded that they are famous, and if they do, they probably don't deserve their fame. Secretly, she hopes some big-name actor, producer or director will notice her someday and let her try a more creative role, but she never makes that desire plain.

History: The Milliers are an upper-middle class French family who moved to the States because of Emmaline's father, who works in finance, when she was around six years old. Em is an only child and had a pleasant childhood, though she would probably have liked a sibling. She was always musically gifted, and played piano and sang at a young age. Her parents were certain she would go on to study music. They didn't exactly disapprove of film, but they were skeptical of it - the fact that their daughter is consistently employed now is a source of significant relief to them.

Emmy started as a production assistant on smaller projects, and worked her way up quickly. She's worked on a couple of films now, for the same studio and producers but different casts and directors. She's definitely gotten better at (or maybe just used to) the demands it places on her, and she's pretty well-respected because she does it well. She hasn't (yet) had to deal with any really difficult personalities - probably a spot of luck, in Hollywood - and that's made it easier. She tends not to have opinions on the films she works on, including this one. Her job is to see that it gets made, not to pass judgement.

Miscellaneous: Emmy was in a band in college; they were pretty good. She was vocals and guitar. The name was a little embarrassing. She keeps the album they made in her luggage but never takes it out or talks about it. She speaks, reads and writes fluently in French, but has no accent in English unless she is affecting one.

She doesn't have a Twitter or a Facebook. No time for them. She had a fliphone until the producers bought her something better.

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