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If you aren’t familiar with Leah Lewis, you should! She Netflix’s latest leading lady from the endearing teen romance, The Half Of It, which currently scores an overwhelmingly positive 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Alice Wu-directed film tells the story of Ellie Chu (Lewis), a shy, straight-A, friendless Chinese-American high school senior who makes extra cash by writing papers for her fellow classmates. When she reluctantly agrees to help football jock Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) pen love letters for his crush, Aster Flores (Alexxis Lemire), the girl Ellie secretly crushes on, the unlikely trio embark on an unconventional love triangle.

The 23-year-old Chinese-American actress gives an incredible performance and you’ll be seeing her talent, comic skills and hilarious personality a lot more in the future. Check out the 10 fun facts she had to share with Just Jared:

1. I enjoy writing poetry and raps. When I can’t make a song on the guitar, I’ll sample a track and just drop my thoughts into rhythm pockets.
2. If I wasn’t an actress/singer, I would want to be a writer or a journalist.
3. I am a die hard Beatles and John Mayer fan. Everybody who knows me, knows what that’s all about.
4. I get really invested in nature shows, take nature’s cycles very personally and feel for weaker animals. HA.
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The stars of The CW’s Katy Keene and Nancy Drew all gather up for group shots while arriving for The CW’s Summer 2019 TCA Party held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday night (August 4) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Ashleigh Murray and Lucy Hale stuck together with their Katy Keene co-stars Lucien Laviscount, Julia Chan, Jonny Beauchamp, Camille Hyde, Zane Holtz, and Katherine LaNasa for the event.

Meanwhile, the stars of Nancy Drew – Kennedy McMann, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, Tunji Kasim, Alvina August, Alex Saxon, Riley Smith and Scott Wolf – kept together on the red carpet for some fun group shots.

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See 70+ pictures of the Katy Keene and Nancy Drew casts inside!

Lucy Hale is joined by her Katy Keene co-stars Ashleigh Murray, Julia Chan, and Jonny Beauchamp on the red carpet at the 2019 CW Network Upfronts on Thursday morning (May 16) at City Center in New York City.

The new show will debut in the fall on The CW and it’s a spinoff of the Riverdale franchise.

The cast of the new series Nancy Drew – Kennedy McMann, Alex Saxon, Maddison Jaizani, Leah Lewis, Tunji Kasim – were also in attendance!

More stars from the network included Roswell New Mexico‘s Nathan Parsons and Jeanine Mason, All American‘s Taye Diggs, Daniel Ezra, and Bre-Z, Black Lightning‘s Nafessa Williams, Charmed‘s Sarah Jeffery, Melonie Diaz, and Madeleine Mantock, In the Dark‘s Perry Mattfeld, and Legacies‘ Danielle Rose Russell and Matthew Davis.

FYI: Ashleigh is wearing a SEA New York blouse and pants, a Mackage bag, and Monica Vinader jewelry. Perry is wearing a Carolina Herrera shirt and skirt. Sarah is wearing a Markarian dress, Jimmy Choo shoes, and Swarovski jewelry.

Meet the actress who will be taking on the role of Nancy Drew in The CW’s new series!

Newcomer Kennedy McMann will star as the beloved character in the pilot, inspired by the classic mysteries, Deadline reports.

Charmed‘s Leah Lewis will co-star in the pilot, and Supergirl‘s Larry Teng will direct. The Vampire Diaries‘ Melinda Hsu Taylor will serve as as executive producer/showrunner.

The untitled Nancy Drew project tells the story of “18-year-old Nancy Drew (McMann) and is set in the summer after her high school graduation. She thought she’d be leaving her hometown for college, but when a family tragedy holds her back another year, she finds herself embroiled in a ghostly murder investigation — and along the way, uncovers secrets that run deeper than she ever imagined. When Nancy ends up a suspect in a murder, it rekindles her love for detective work, even though the clues lead her to believe that a long-dead local girl may be the killer.”

Leah will play George, “a tough, tattooed girl from the wrong side of the tracks who felt personally wronged by Nancy in high school. George now finds herself a suspect in the killing along with her former nemesis, forcing her to team up with Nancy to track the culprit and clear their names… and it just may be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

Kennedy attended Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and has appeared on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU and NBCU’s Gone.

“The 12-year-old girl in me hogging the family computer playing Nancy Drew computer games and living out fantasies in her head about solving mysteries has been crying tears of joy for the past three days,” she shared on Instagram. “An absolutely incomprehensible dream come true. Here we go, Nancy. ❤️🕵🏼‍♀️”

Leah Lewis and Luke Benward have landed the lead roles in Disney’s new pilot Madison High, a show with a special connection to the High School Musical series!

The show will feature HSM‘s beloved Ms. Darbus (Alyson Reed), who will transfer from East to Madison High to build a revolutionary theatre program. She casts a diverse troupe of both seasoned and raw actors to create an original musical production based on their lives.

Luke, 15, will play Devin Daniels, a motocross racer looking for a new hobby and Leah, 14, will be playing Peyton Hall, a formerly home-schooled tennis champion.

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