Vella Lovell

Vella Lovell is an American actress who trained at the Interlochen Arts Academy before attending New York University and the Juilliard School. Raised in New Mexico, she took minor roles on the television series Girls and Younger before she was cast as Heather Davis on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in 2015. She played Khadija in the romantic comedy The Big Sick (2017) and had a small part in Netflix's The Christmas Chronicles (2018). In 2018 she began voicing Princess Mermista on the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. She played Mikaela on the NBC comedy Mr. Mayor, created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, and appeared with Cheyenne Jackson, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch in the Comedy Central parody A Clüsterfünke Christmas (2021). She plays Emily Price on the FOX sitcom Animal Control.