
Acting
Calah Francine Lane (born April 20, 2009) is an American actress and singer. She was born in Irving, Texas and started performing as an actress at the age of 4. She had minor parts in commercials, short movies and episodes of television series, before being cast as the young Laurel in the TV drama This Is Us (2021). Her breakthrough was the role as main character Noodle opposite Timothée Chalamet in Wonka (2023), directed by Paul King. For this, she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award for Best Young Actor/Actress and for an NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Youth Performance in a Motion Picture. In August 2024, Calah Lane released her music single "Otherside" on all major platforms.

Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.

An impoverished leader of a small religious commune in Miami is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for an FBI agent, who plans to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.

When her teenage sister gets suspended, an 8-year-old girl on scholarship at an elite private school starts to doubt that hard work is all it takes to get ahead.

