Lidya Jewett is an American actress known for her roles in the films Hidden Figures (2016), Black Panther (2018) and The Darkest Minds (2018), and the television series Grey’s Anatomy (2019) and Good Girls (2018–2020).
Wiki/Biography
Lidya Jewett was born on Friday, January 19, 2007 (age 13 in 2020) in Ethiopia, near the Ethiopia-Sudan border. Her star sign is Capricorn. She was adopted from an orphanage in Addis Ababa when she was four years old and later came to the United States.
Lydia Jewett when she was adopted
She showed academic talent at a young age and learned to speak English before she started kindergarten. She was a voracious reader and loved math and science. Later, her family moved from Miami to Los Angeles, and she became a student living on both the East and West coasts.
appearance
Eye Color: Brown
Hair color: Black
Family and Race
Her sister is Isabelle Jewett. She has two older brothers, Connor Jewett (a US Army soldier) and MaclaᎥn Jewett.
Lidya Jewett and her father
Lidya Jewett and her sister
Lidya Jewett and her brother Connor
Lidya Jewett and her brother Maclain
Profession
She started her career by shooting television commercials and print ads in Miami. In 2015, she made her debut in the TV series “See Dad Run” as “Lydia”.
She rose to fame with the role of “Gracie Walker” in the TV series “WITS Academy” (2015) and later appeared in TV series such as “Grey’s Anatomy” (2019), “Jamal & Gerald” (2019) and “Good Girls” (2018-19).
She made her screen debut in Hidden Figures (2016) as a young “Katherine Coleman”.
Lidya Jewett, Hidden Figures (2016)
She has appeared in the films Wonder (2017), Black Panther (2018), The Darkest Minds (2018), and Feel the Beat (2020).
Favorite things
- TV Personality: Ellen DeGeneres
- Movies: Harry Potter series
- Books: Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
- The Musical: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton
- Songs: “Idol” by BTS, “In My Blood” by Shawn Mendes
Facts/Trivia
- In her free time, she enjoys reading, watching makeup tutorials, singing, practicing her photography skills, and using a microscope.
- She is a philanthropist who helps communities by packing food relief for FEMA, reading to young children, and funding an orphan girl’s education in Uganda.
- She loved to sing, and her first big performance was singing live on stage at the Grove at the Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettel Holiday Event.
- She is also a motivational speaker, providing guidance to teenagers who want to pursue careers in performing arts and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
- Talking about her interest in show business and her journey to becoming an actress, she said,
When I was 5 years old, we would be stopped in public by strangers who would urge us to model. This happened so often that my sister said if one more person stopped us, we would have to model. Sure enough, the next person was a waitress who said I would be in commercials. So we did. I started doing print modeling and commercials in the Miami area. On set, production would pull my mom aside and tell her that they needed to coach me to “get on camera,” and doors started opening, which led me to my current agent and team in LA.”
- In 2019, her group won the Gracie Award for Ensemble Performance for their outstanding performance in the TV series “Good Girls”.
Lidya Jewett wins Gracie Award
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education