Millicent Simmonds To Lead Freeform's 'Close Up' Pilot

Millicent Simmonds To Lead Freeform's 'Close Up' Pilot

Millicent Simmonds is set to star in Freeform’s new pilot, Close Up.

Deadline reports that the 16-year-old actress will star as Jen in the series and will communicate on screen in American Sign Language.

Close Up is set in a seemingly normal suburban town in Centreville, New Jersey, and follows high school student Rachel Guyer, who is on a mission to expose the truth about her hometown and turn her community inside out.

Millicent‘s role as Jen is described as “self-possessed and funny and tends to retreat into a rich imaginative inner world. Due to her impaired hearing, she is a natural observer and knows her town like the back of her hand. One to normally avoid attention at all costs, she takes a courageous step forward in the aftermath of a recent trauma.”

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