Briana Middleton

Middleton is an alumna of The Ensworth School.^[1] She studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.^[2][1]

Middleton's acting career began ramping up in 2021, when she was cast in George Clooney's drama The Tender Bar,^[3] The Inheritance,^[4] and Sharper co-starring Julianne Moore.^[5]

However, her casting in a lead role in the Disney+ series Little Town, prequel to the 2017 Beauty and the Beast adaptation,^[6] ended with the series being delayed indefinitely in February 2022.^[7] And in June 2023, another show she was cast to star in, Metropolis, a miniseries adaptation of Thea von Harbou's science fiction novel to be directed and written by Sam Esmail^[8] was announced as not moving forward.^[9]

Middleton grew up in a military family, and lived in Germany, Tennessee and Louisiana. She currently lives in New Orleans.^[10]