Isa Briones

She played Susan in a Los Angeles production of Miracle on 34th Street, in which Megan Briones appeared as her mother.

Isabella Camille Briones (born January 17, 1999) is an American actor and singer.

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In 2006, when Briones was seven, her family moved to Los Angeles.

Briones learned acting and singing at home from her parents.

She majored in theatre and musical theatre at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.

Isa Briones began her career as a model in New York City at age three, and started acting in feature films and stage productions in 2008.

Briones began her acting career as a child in 2008.

She appeared in television commercials and played supporting roles in feature films including Brown Soup Thing, Takers and Lonely Boy.

For a television pilot in 2010, Briones played one of three children of a single mother moonlighting as a drug kingpin in Beverly Hills.

She won the Ovation Award for Featured Actress In a Musical for Next to Normal in 2018 in Los Angeles.

Afterward, she returned to New York and became the youngest performer in the first touring company of Hamilton, playing multiple roles and earning praise for her "sultry alto" voice.

In addition to multiple acting performances in Star Trek: Picard, Briones sang a new arrangement of "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin for the season one finale.

Isa Briones was born in London, England, to Jon Jon Briones and Megan Briones ( Johnson), and she has a younger brother, Teo.

Her family members are all musical theatre actors.

She is Filipino on her father's side, and Swedish and Irish on her mother's.

Her parents met in Stuttgart while auditioning for Miss Saigon; her father was closing its West End theatre production when Briones was born.

She was ten months old when her family moved from London to New York City, where she began work as a model at age three.

In 2018, she appeared along with her father in an episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.

In 2018, Briones earned three Ovation Award nominations for Featured Actress In a Musical from the LA STAGE Alliance.

She was nominated for her portrayal of Perón's mistress in Evita, and won for her performance in one of two discrete productions of Next to Normal.

In 2019, Briones was cast in Star Trek: Picard as two sets of synthetic twins: Dahj and Soji, and Jana and Sutra.

Briones sent tapes of herself to audition for the web television series while she was playing multiple roles on stage in Hamilton, and learned during the process that she would portray twins in the series.

A veteran of musical theatre, she rose to prominence for her starring roles in the CBS All Access (later Paramount+) series Star Trek: Picard (2020), including Soji, an android "daughter" of Data.

In 2023, she starred as Margot Stokes in the Disney+/Hulu series Goosebumps.

She made her debut as both Dahj and Soji during the season premiere in January 2020.

Sutra is introduced in episode nine.

Briones said she identified most closely with Soji who, after Romulan attacks, learns she is not human but rather an android created from a remnant of Data: "I think that's a very relatable story as a mixed person, deciding that you can be... both Filipino and white, and you can be both synthetic and human, if that's how you feel inside."

Sutra presented a different direction for Briones, who chose a similar look to Data, and the novel challenge of acting opposite herself as Soji.

In his review of the series' debut episode, Entertainment Weekly's Darren Franich called its plot developments "shock tactics" and Dahj "vacant".

Scott Collura of IGN wrote that Soji is effectively a plot device, but Briones "gives it her all week after week, reacting best she can to Soji's changing status quo".

Keith DeCandido from Tor.com said her performance improved with each episode; "her confused post-activation Soji is her best work".

Paramount+ confirmed in April 2021 that Briones would return for the series' second season, in which she added a new character, Kore, genetically engineered "daughter" of 21st century geneticist Adam Soong (Brent Spiner).

In the season finale "Farewell", Kore frees herself from Soong's influence and is recruited by Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) to join the Travelers.

Briones confirmed on May 6, 2022, that Soji will not be returning for the series' third season.

In October, Briones was added to the cast of the Disney+ series Goosebumps, based on the novels by R. L. Stine.

Briones plays Margot, a bookworm thought by her high-school classmates to be a snob.

Briones has performed in numerous stage musicals since childhood.