Emily Alyn Lind

Emily Alyn Lind was born on May 6, 2002, in Brooklyn,^[1] the daughter of producer and assistant director^[2] John Lind and actress Barbara Alyn Woods. She has an older sister, Natalie Alyn Lind, and a younger sister, Alyvia Alyn Lind, who are also actresses.^[3]

Lind made her film debut as a child actress in 2008 in The Secret Life of Bees. Since then she has appeared in such films as Dear Dumb Diary, Enter the Void, J. Edgar, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, and Movie 43. She has played Emma Lavery in the soap opera All My Children.^[4]

Lind has had recurring roles in the ABC television series Revenge as young Amanda Clarke,^[3] as well as in the ABC television series Eastwick as Emily Gardener. She has also appeared in such series as Days of Our Lives, Medium, Flashpoint, Criminal Minds, Suburgatory, and Hawaii Five-0. In 2017, Lind was promoted to a starring role on the CBS medical drama Code Black for the series' third season, after appearing as the character of Ariel during the show's first two seasons.^[5]

Lind starred as Melanie in the comedy horror film, The Babysitter,^[6] which was released on Netflix in 2017. She reprised her role in the sequel, The Babysitter: Killer Queen.^[7][8] In 2018, Lind was cast as Snakebite Andi in the 2019 film Doctor Sleep, based on the 2013 Stephen King novel and sequel to The Shining.^[9]

In March 2020, it was announced that Lind was set to star in the HBO Max teen drama Gossip Girl,^[10] which debuted in 2021 and ran for two seasons.^[11] She also played ghost girl Melody in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire released in 2024.

On May 30, 2024, it was announced that she was cast as Cadence Sinclair Eastman, the protagonist of the series We Were Liars, adapted from E. Lockhart's book of the same name.^[12]