Leah Marie Liang Lewis

Biography

Leah Marie Liang Lewis is an American actress born on December 9, 1996. She was adopted from an orphanage in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, when she was eight months old and grew up in Windermere, Florida. She has an adoptive sister named Lydia, who was adopted from the same orphanage. Her parents, Frederick Lewis and Lorraine Lewis, are both real estate brokers. She discovered performing arts at Crenshaw School in Orlando, Florida, and also attended Thornebrooke Elementary School in Ocoee, Southwest Middle School in Orlando, and Gotha Middle School. During her teenage years, she moved back and forth between Los Angeles and Orlando with her mother. She returned to Orlando at age 17 to complete her high school education at Olympia High School, then moved back to Los Angeles alone at age 20. She is best known for her role as Georgia Fan in the CW television series Nancy Drew, her role as Ellie Chu in the Netflix film Half of It, and voicing the character Ember Lumen in the Pixar animated film Elemental.