Possible Clues:

• Humanoid robot in 2014’s “Ex Machina”
• DuVernay who directed 'A Wrinkle in Time'
• Gardner or DuVernay
• '13th' documentarian DuVernay
• Film Contessa
• Principal on "Abbott Elementary"
• Actress Gardner, for one
• Screen siren Gardner
• Gardner who played the Barefoot Contessa
• "Kings & Queens" singer Max