How to create multiple parent actors in Thespian

Question

Working on Actor Model-based system and using the Thespian library. I am trying to generate 100 instances of the actor and add it to the actor system, however, I can only pass in the class type instead of an instance of that class. Does it have to be recursive where a parent has to exist?

class Person(Actor):
    def __init__(self, name):
        pass

if __name__=='__main__':
    from thespian.actors import ActorSystem
    system = ActorSystem()
    for i in range(100):
        system.createActor(Person("*insert unique name*"))
    # Shutdown ActorSystem instance.
    system.shutdown()

It doesn't seem like this is allowed given the Thespian documentation, but couldn't find anything online about this use case.