Arielle Prepetit

An American actress, dancer and singer, Arielle Prepetit grew up in Orlando, Florida. She trained in dance from age five and took acting classes at seventeen, later performing in parades and shows at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios, including Mickey's Royal Friendship Faire and the Main Street Trolley Show. Her stage work includes productions of Flashdance The Musical, Little Shop of Horrors and Legally Blonde: The Musical. Her film credits include The System (2022), About My Father (2023), Haunted Mansion (2023), Freedom Hair (2024), Bull Street (2024) and Sketch (2025), along with short films like Plant Parenthood and Anemoia. She also guest-starred on the television series BMF and Found. In February 2025 she began playing Naomi Hamilton Hawthorne, a civil attorney, on the CBS soap opera Beyond the Gates, the first African-American daytime soap opera to debut in over three decades, and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 2026.