Meganne Young

Young was born in Cape Town to a South African father and an Australian mother. She spent her childhood moving around, with stints in Nigeria, Switzerland, and Sri Lanka where she took the International Baccalaureate at the Overseas School of Colombo. She pursued at an Advanced Diploma in Acting at the CityVarsity Cape Town campus, completing in 2011, before going on to graduate from the Guildford School of Acting in England as a part-time distance learner in 2014.^[4][5]

Young began her career in theatre and short films, earning 48 Hour Film and Fleur du Cap Theatre Award nominations for her work. She appeared in the British film Eye in the Sky. She landed her first major onscreen role as Abigail Ashe in Starz series Black Sails.^[4] She also made guest appearances in season 14 of Supernatural and in Legends of Tomorrow.^[6][7]

In 2018, she landed the role of Rachel in the Netflix original film The Kissing Booth.^[8][9] Young went on to reprise her role in the films' sequels, The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) and The Kissing Booth 3 (2021).^[10][11][12]