Bella Shepard

Bella Shepard is an American actor who started out as a child actress, taking a small speaking role in Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, she grew up in Waterford, Flint and Grand Blanc, and after moving to Los Angeles she found early television work in My Haunted House and Life in Pieces, both in 2015, and appeared in Grace and Frankie. From 2018 to 2019 she was part of the main cast of A Girl Named Jo, playing Alice Hargrave across its three seasons, and she took the part of a younger Aleida Diaz in Orange Is the New Black's seventh season. Later came a 2022 episode of iCarly and a leading role in the 2023 series Wolf Pack, and she has played the cadet Genesis Lythe in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy since 2026.