Malia Baker

Malia Baker is a Botswana-born Canadian actress who moved to Canada at age two and a half. Her first screen credit came in the television movie Hope at Christmas (2018), where she was uncredited, and she followed it with guest spots in A Million Little Things, The Flash and The Twilight Zone. She broke through in 2020 as Mary Anne Spier in Netflix's The Baby-Sitters Club, a role she played again in the 2021 second season, and she appeared as Gabby Lewis in Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? revival. Her later credits include the Lifetime movie Caught in His Web (2022), What We Hide (2025), Disney+'s Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024) and its sequel Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (2026), plus the drama Thena. She starred in the independent drama Hair of the Bear and was also an executive producer on it.