Chiara Aurelia

Chiara Aurelia is an American actress who started out in school productions and local drama classes at five and later trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute. She was born in Taos, New Mexico, and grew up in Albuquerque. Small film and television parts and short films came first, among them Dead Celebrity, before she played Carla Gugino's character as a young girl in the Stephen King adaptation Gerald's Game (2017) and Misty Altmyer in Alex Pettyfer's directorial debut Back Roads (2019); both brought her Young Entertainer Awards. Her lead role as Jeanette Turner in the Freeform series Cruel Summer earned her HCA and Critics' Choice Award nominations, and she also appeared in Tell Me Your Secrets and Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021). She joined the cast of the Netflix adaptation of Jessica Knoll's Luckiest Girl Alive (2022) and made her Broadway debut in John Proctor Is the Villain in 2025.