Up-and-comers
by cjblankenship-06641 | created - 20 Sep 2019 | updated - 20 Sep 2019 | Public
1. Asante Blackk
Actor | This Is Us
Asante Blackk was born and raised in Maryland to Ayize and Aiyana Ma'at, both clinical social workers and couples therapists. His father's family is from Alexandria, Virginia and his mother's family is from North Carolina, London, England and Trinidad.
Coming from a long line of preachers, social ...
2. Jharrel Jerome
Actor | Moonlight
Jharrel Jerome was born on October 9, 1997 in Bronx, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Moonlight (2016), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and When They See Us (2019).
3. Eris Baker
Actress | This Is Us
Eris Baker was born on August 4, 2005. She is an actress, known for This Is Us (2016), Dispel (2019) and K.C. Undercover (2015).
4. Gaten Matarazzo
Actor | Stranger Things
Gaetano John "Gaten" Matarazzo III (born September 8, 2002) is an Italian-American actor. He began his career on the Broadway stage as Benjamin in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert & as Gavroche in Les Misérables. He stars as Dustin Henderson in the Netflix science-fiction drama series, Stranger Things...
5. Lexy Kolker
Actress | Freaks
Lexy Kolker was born as Alexa Rose Kolker on August 17, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. She is already making waves in the entertainment industry. She was introduced to acting as a toddler by her older sister Ava Kolker.
Lexy is best known for her work on the USA network action thriller, "Shooter" ...
6. Dianna Catterton
Actress | Tell Me Lies
Dianna's first role in a feature film was opposite Vince Vaughn in Domestic Disturbance where she played a friendly small-town waitress. Her most recent film roles are alongside Benicio Del Toro and Ato Essandoh as a helpful neighbor in the upcoming Netflix thriller Reptile; a sassy redneck ...
7. Stephanie Ray
Actress | V/H/S/99
Stephanie Ray, originally from North Carolina, spent her youth on stages up and down the east coast. With her theater training behind her, Stephanie relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. Having appeared in many independent features, horror films and some television, ...
8. Melissa Paladino
Actress | Shameless
Melissa Paladino is known for Shameless (2011), Loners (2019) and The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (2008).
9. Angela Fornero
Actress | Dead to Me
Angela Fornero was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Dead to Me (2019), As We See It (2022) and Chicago P.D. (2014).
10. Eliza Taylor
Actress | The 100
Australian actress Eliza Taylor is perhaps best known for anchoring the drama THE 100 as 'Clarke Griffin' on The CW for 7 seasons. Since the show's onset, Eliza made waves playing the network's first openly bisexual lead character. In the film space, Eliza starred in the indie thriller THUMPER ...
11. Marie Avgeropoulos
Actress | Tracers
Marie Avgeropoulos currently stars as "Octavia Blake" in the CW's post-apocalyptic drama series, The 100 (2014). The Emmy- nominated series chronicles the surviving population living on a space station, called the ARK, who send a group of 100 delinquents down to earth. THE 100 set out to see if ...
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