Lilan Bowden

Lilan Bowden is an American actress best known for playing Bex Mack on Andi Mack and Amber Kang on the Netflix series Murderville. Born in Castro Valley, California, she began performing in an improv club at Castro Valley High School and continued in comedy at the University of California, Irvine before moving to Los Angeles and joining the Upright Citizens Brigade. She also wrote videos with her writing partner Wilder Smith that appeared on Funny or Die. She has described how her mixed race heritage made auditioning hard, with minority roles tending to cluster in certain categories, and she eventually won the part of Bex, the young single mother at the center of Andi Mack, in a cast dominated by women and built around an Asian American family. Bowden also directed the 2020 short film Becoming Eddie.