Casting Ideas | LOVEDby | Female Ensemble
by ayngailey | created - 24 Jul 2021 | updated - 20 Apr 2023 | Public
1. Vanessa Hudgens
Actress | High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Vanessa Anne Hudgens was born in Salinas, California. Her family moved to San Diego, California, while she was still a toddler. She has a younger sister, Stella Hudgens, who is also an actress. Her mother, Gina Hudgens (née Guangco), an office worker, is from the Philippines. Her father, Greg ...
2. Jessica Williams
Actress | Shrinking
Jessica Renee Williams, born July 31, 1989 in Los Angeles County, California, is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for her work as a senior correspondent on The Daily Show, where she was the youngest correspondent ever at the age of twenty-two, and as co-host of the podcast 2 Dope...
Shrinking; Love Life
3. Jackie Cruz
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Jackie Cruz has been singing and acting her whole life, and has entertained thousands with her unique sound, and artistic skills on screen with her roles on Netflix's #1 series, Orange Is the New Black (2013) as Flaca.
At a young age, Jackie has made amazing strides in her career with being named ...
4. Hanako Footman
Actress | The Crown
Hanako Footman is known for The Crown (2016) and Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018).
5. Rose Matafeo
Actress | Starstruck
Rose Matafeo was born on February 25, 1992 in Auckland, New Zealand. She is an actress and writer, known for Starstruck (2021), Golden Boy (2019) and Funny Girls (2015).
6. Samantha Logan
Actress | All American
Samantha Logan was born on October 27, 1996 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for All American (2018), 13 Reasons Why (2017) and The Empty Man (2020).
7. Nathalie Emmanuel
Actress | Fast & Furious 7
Nathalie Emmanuel is an English actress, known for her role as Missandei on the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011) and Ramsey in Furious 7 (2015).
Nathalie was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, to a father of Saint Lucian and English descent and a mother of Dominican origin. Nathalie ...
8. Zazie Beetz
Actress | Atlanta
Zazie Beetz (born c. 1991) is a German-American actress known for the role of Vanessa on Atlanta (2016), as well as for starring in Deadpool 2 (2018), Joker (2019), and Nine Days (2020).
Born in Berlin to a German father and an African-American mother, Beetz was raised in New York speaking both ...
9. Alexandra Shipp
Actress | X-Men: Apocalypse
Alexandra Shipp is known for her role as the iconic mohawked super heroine 'Storm' in Twentieth Century Fox's X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), directed by Bryan Singer. Shipp plays a younger version of 'Storm' (originally played by Halle Berry). Determined to make the mutant character her own, she ...
10. Logan Browning
Actress | The Perfection
Logan Browning was born on June 9, 1989 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Perfection (2018), Bratz (2007) and Powers (2015).
11. Michaela Coel
Actress | Chewing Gum
Michaela was born on October 1st 1987 as Michaela Boakye-Collinson to Ghanaian parents and brought up in Tower Hamlets by her mother, a devout member of the Pentecostal church who instilled her religion into Michaela and her sister - something that she would later draw on for her play 'Chewing Gum ...
12. Christine Ko
Actress | Dave
Christine Ko is an American actress best known for her role as Emma in the FX series Dave. She will play a key recurring role in Season 5 of the Handmaid's Tale opposite Elizabeth Moss and recently wrapped a character arc on Hulu's Only Murders in the Building. Christine is the female lead in the ...
13. Kara Wang
Actress | Top Gun: Maverick
Kara Wang is a Chinese American actress from Los Angeles. She speaks native Mandarin Chinese as well as the Hangzhou Chinese dialect. She also reads and writes both traditional and simplified Chinese. Kara started performing at the age of 6, actively involved in theatre and show choir throughout ...
14. Shaunette Renée Wilson
Actress | Black Panther
Shaunette Renée Wilson was born on January 19, 1990 in Linden, Guyana. She is an actress and writer, known for Black Panther (2018), The Resident (2018) and Billions (2016).
15. Michelle Yeoh
Actress | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Michelle Yeoh was born in Ipoh, Malaysia. She's the daughter of Janet Yeoh & Kian Teik Yeoh. She's of Hokkien descent, speaking English and Malay before Chinese. A ballet dancer since 4, she moved to London to study at the Royal Academy as a teen. After a brief dance career, she won the Miss ...
16. Ilfenesh Hadera
Actress | Baywatch
Ilfenesh Hadera (born December 1, 1985) is an American actress. Ilfenesh was born in Harlem, New York City and is of Ethiopian and European ethnicity. Her father Asfaha Hadera, an Ethiopian refugee, is the founder and Co-Executive Director of African Services Committee, a Harlem based NGO which ...
17. Anya Chalotra
Actress | The Witcher
Anya Chalotra is an English actress known for playing Jennifer Ashman in the British TV show Wanderlust (2018) and for her role as Yennefer of Vengerberg in the Netflix series The Witcher (2019).
Chalotra was born in a British-Indian family. Her father is of Indian descent while her mother is ...
British-Indian
18. Imaan Hammam
Actress | Nude Area
Imaan Hammam (born 5 October 1996) is a Dutch model of Moroccan and Egyptian descent. Hammam was first discovered in Amsterdam's Central Station by an agent from CODE Management in 2010. In 2013, her agency sent her to Paris with VIVA Model Management and she was given the special honor to open the...
Moroccan/Egyptian. Speaks Arabic, Dutch, English etc
19. Taylour Paige
Actress | Zola
Taylour Paige was born and raised in Inglewood, California. Paige started her career at a young age training at the Westside Ballet Academy, and spent two summers at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, DC. In 2001, she became a student of the choreographer, director, executive producer, and ...
20. Kirby
Actress | The Good Place
Kirby is an actress who is best known for her memorable roles in "Killing Eve," "The Good Place," "Barry," "Why Women Kill," and "Veronica Mars." Her other television credits include "Infinity Train," "Love," 'Downward Dog," "House Of Lies," and "Comedy Bang! Bang!."
In 2021, Kirby was seen in the ...
Killing Eve
21. Ayo Edebiri
Actress | Bottoms
Ayo Edebiri is an American comedian, writer, producer and actress. She appeared on Comedy Central's Up Next and co-hosts the podcast Iconography with Olivia Craighead. Edebiri joined the cast of Big Mouth's fourth season and is a main cast member on The Bear. Edebiri was born in Boston and raised ...
The Bear (actress). Writer.
22. Adria Arjona
Actress | Father of the Bride
Accustomed to airplanes and distant countries since she could recall, Adria Arjona was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Mexico City. Falling asleep in Guatemala and waking up in Argentina was not out of norm for her. She is the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother, Leslie, and a Guatemalan father, ...
23. Ashley Park
Actress | Joy Ride
Ashley Jini Park is a Grammy and Tony nominated actress born in Glendale, California and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she graduated from the famed Musical Theatre program at The University of Michigan.
After making her Broadway debut in Broadway's "Mamma Mia!", Ashley starred as 'Tuptim' ...
From Emily in Paris
24. Danielle Deadwyler
Actress | Station Eleven
Danielle Deadwyler was born on May 3, 1982 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Station Eleven (2021), The Harder They Fall (2021) and Till (2022).
paradigm
25. Humberly González
Actress | Ginny & Georgia
Venezuelan born Humberly González is a Canadian actress who first got a taste for acting in high school. That love progressed through the Theatre program at Keyano College, and on to the National Theatre School in Montreal. Now Toronto based, Humberly got her start doing guest roles on Orphan Black...
paradigm
26. Christina Jackson
Actress | Devotion
Christina Jackson was born on July 14, 1987 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Devotion (2022), The Night House (2020) and Deception (2013).
27. Daniella Pineda
Actress | Jurassic World Dominion
Daniella Pineda is a Mexican-American actress, writer, and comedian from Oakland, California.
In January 2013 it was announced that she was cast as the witch Sophie for season 4 episode 20 of The CW's hit series The Vampire Diaries. This episode serves as a backdoor pilot for a possible spin-off ...
28. Brittany O'Grady
Actress | Star
Brittany O'Grady has been performing professionally since the age of 4. Most recently, Brittany appeared as Paula in 'The White Lotus', Mike White's dark comedy mini-series for HBO. Brittany also starred in 'Little Voice' on Apple TV+, in which she portrayed Bess King, a young aspiring ...
29. Shannyn Sossamon
Actress | Wristcutters: A Love Story
Shannyn Sossamon is an American actress and director. She is of Irish, French, Dutch, Hawaiian-Filipino, German and English ancestry. Growing up in Reno, Nevada, Sossamon spent most of her youth at a local dance studio. After graduating high school at age 17, she moved to Los Angeles, California, ...
30. Awkwafina
Actress | Ocean's Eight
Nora Lum, known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress and rapper. She has played supporting roles in the comedy films Ocean's 8 and Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and her leading role in the comedy-drama The Farewell (2019) earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress nomination.
She ...
31. Yara Shahidi
Actress | Salt
Yara Shahidi was born on February 10, 2000 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Salt (2010), Black-ish (2014) and Grown-ish (2018).
32. Kiersey Clemons
Actress | Dope
Kiersey Clemons was born December 17 in Pensacola, Florida. She grew up in a military family traveling the U.S before settling in Southern California with her parents and three sisters. Always having a love for theatre and performance, the actor/musician has quickly become known for the diverse and...
33. Camila Morrone
Actress | Daisy Jones & The Six
Camila Morrone is an American model and actress.
Morrone was born in Los Angeles, California to Argentine parents Lucila Solá and Máximo Morrone. Her mother is a former model and was a companion to actor Al Pacino, who is also her stepfather.
Morrone started her career as a model and has appeared on ...
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