**VERSACE** _knit top, bra, skirt and belt_.
**VERSACE** _knit top and bra_.
**AVANT** **TOI** _sheer knit cashmere sweater and_ **ERES** _underwear._
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Janet Montgomery
“All acting is a game of masks. Janet’s unique gift—comparable in my mind to only a few of the great golden age Hollywood stars—is her uncanny ability to let you sense the face beneath the mask.” – Co-creator Adam Simon, _Salem_ (TV Series 2014-)
Esteemed British actress Janet Montgomery_\[5\]_ defines CALIFUK’s complex intersectionality. As the power-wielding, fashion-forward witch Mary Sibley on WGN’s _Salem_, she exerts a flare of supernatural manipulation á la Lady Macbeth. Set in 17th Century Massachusetts, Montgomery dons exquisite low-cut gowns, and capes with fur-trim, all while subverting starched-collar, Puritanical dominion. But when she grabs dinner after work in laid-back L.A., it’s not even a matter of flats or flip-flops; she says she sometimes dines flat-out barefoot. Apropos, she’s a master of mask-changes, and a trained dancer. She squared off with Natalie Portman as the Little Swan in Darren Aronofsky’s exacting drama _Black_ _Swan_ (2010). But Montgomery juxtaposes gravitas and levity in her chosen roles—she plays Eric Murphy’s assistant Jennie on HBO’s _Entourage_ (2010-2011), and Paul Rudd’s love interest in _Our Idiot Brother_ (2011). But of three forthcoming roles, _Drive, She Said_ puts the classy actress opposite goofball Jason Biggs, as a prostitute. CALIFUK yeah, Montgomery toes a delicate line between elegance and embarrassment, highbrow and lowbrow. Is it not the best?
#### _5 Born 29 October 1985\[a\]_
#### _5.a “It’s something they won’t even entertain at this point,” – producer Ralph Andrews_ _\[i\]_
#### _5.i From “Black Soap Opera ‘Turns The Tables”_
#### _by Lee Margulies_ _\[\*\] |_ Los Angeles Times _| 29 October 1985_
_\*In 1985, Ralph Andrews and O.J. Simpson worked with Columbia Pictures to drum up individual station support for an outline of_ Heart & Soul_, an all-Black soap opera. At the time, the No. 1 TV series was_ The Cosby Show _but, still, the executive producers didn’t bother pitching to the three commercial networks. On March 27, 1989,_ Generations _aired on NBC. Starring Vivica A. Fox, it became the first soap opera to feature an African-American family._
#### _Photographer_: Guy Lowndes at guylowndes.com.
#### _Stylist_: Nicolas Klam for Jedroot.com.
#### _Hair_: Creighton Bowman for Traceymattingly.com.
#### _Makeup_: Kristina Brown for Jedroot.com.
#### _Styling Assistants_: Kacey Lynch and Ali Miller.
_Location_: Wild Honey Studios, Los Angeles.
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