Bre-Z swaggered onto our radar with her flawless portrayal of Freda Gatz in the smash hit TV series, Empire.
If you haven’t already bingewatched this hip-hop musical soap opera featuring original songs, A-list actors and, best of all, loads of queer representation, get on it. Ilene Chaiken, the woman who gave us The L Word, is an executive producer and Lee Daniels, the show’s creator, calls it “the black Dynasty”. Bre-Z sums up her character as “a young girl trying to find her way, rough around the edges, attracted to women”.