Emma Dumont

Emma Dumont, an American actor, model and dancer, began performing in community theater in Seattle at age six. They trained at the Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana, California. Their first film role came in True Adolescents in 2007, which was released in 2009, and they also appeared in Dear Lemon Lima (2009). In 2010 they won a modeling contest held by V magazine and received a Ford Models contract. On television, they were cast in Stephen Gaghan's NBC pilot Metro in 2011, then in ABC Family's Bunheads, playing Melanie Segal from 2012 into early 2013. They filmed the NBC pilots Aquarius and Salvation in 2014, and went on to play Emma Karn in Aquarius. In 2017 they were cast in Fox's X-Men series The Gifted as Lorna Dane, also known as Polaris. They later appeared as Jackie Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023).