Danika Yarosh

Danika Yarosh is an American actress from Bedminster, New Jersey. She began acting young, appearing as an extra in The Stepford Wives (2004) at age five, then studied acting and dance and worked off-Broadway before playing the ballet dancer Karen in Billy Elliot on Broadway in 2009. After moving to Los Angeles, she took small television parts, including 30 Rock and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and played C. K. Williams's first love in The Color of Time (2012). Recurring roles on See Dad Run and the Showtime series Shameless followed, and she joined the NBC miniseries Heroes Reborn. In Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) she played Samantha, the would-be daughter of Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher. She also appeared in The Miracle Season (2018) as Caroline Found and in Back Roads, directed by Alex Pettyfer, before joining Greenhouse Academy and The Purge.