- Her role in Dead of Summer (2016) was written specifically for her.
- Auditioned for the role of Supergirl (2015) before Melissa Benoist was cast.
- Graduated from Asheboro High School and began studying acting at the University of North Carolina School of The Arts in Winston-Salem, NC in 2010, finishing in May 2014.
- After initially moving to New York to pursue theater, she received her breakthrough role as Anna in the ABC series Once Upon a Time. She then booked a starring role in Freeform's Dead of Summer.
- She played the live-action role of Anna that was based on the character of the same name from the animated Disney film Frozen. Kristen Bell provided the voice of Anna in the film.
- She was born to parents Dean Franklin Lail and Kay Lurene Surratt in Williamson County, Texas, later moving to Asheboro, Randolph County, North Carolina. She has a sister named Kathryn Dean Lail.
- She was cast as a series regular for David Fincher's planned HBO series Video Synchronicity in 2015 but the project was eventually passed on by HBO.
- She studied acting at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
- Daughter of Dean Franklin Lail and wife Kay Lurene Surratt and sister of Kathryn Dean Lail.
- Her only previous acting experience was in a couple of student film productions.
- She is a vegan.
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