Aviva Mongillo

Aviva Mongillo is a Canadian singer and actress who started out in acting, vocal and guitar classes as a child. Born in Markham, she attended Unionville High School while posting original songs to SoundCloud, which brought her to a Toronto producer's attention and into a studio, where she was urged to audition for the Family Channel drama Backstage. She won the part of Alya Kendrick and played it for sixty episodes. Her debut single, Hype, arrived in 2016, followed by the EP Songs About Boys in 2017 and a part in Don't Talk to Irene (2017). She joined the CBC sitcom Workin' Moms as Juniper in 2018, then appeared in Long Shot (2019) and Random Acts of Violence (2019). Recording as Carys, she released the single Bad Boy and saw Princesses Don't Cry go viral, leading to the EP To Anyone Like Me in 2020. In 2025 she took a lead role in the Netflix series Bet.