Ariela Barer

Ariela Barer
Photo by Sylvia Rittner, 2022
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2007–present
Relatives	Libe Barer (sister)

Ariela Barer is an American actress, best known for playing the role of Gert Yorkes in the Hulu series Runaways , Ziggy in the ABC series Rebel , and Xochitl in the 2022 film How to Blow Up a Pipeline . She is set to portray Mel in the HBO series The Last of Us .

Early life

Both her parents are Mexican-born Jews. ^[1]

Her older sister Libe Barer ^{[2] [3]} is also an actress.

Career

Ariela Barer started acting at the age of three and started professionally at nine. She has since starred in a variety of projects and performed as part of an indie rock band called The Love-Inns. ^[4] She was cast as Gert Yorkes on Runaways , which aired its first season on Hulu, as part of its original programming, from November 21, 2017 to January 9, 2018. ^[5] She also portrayed Carmen on One Day at a Time and Bailey Bennett on Atypical .

Ariela Barer attends a 2023 screening of How to Blow Up a Pipeline in Brooklyn, New York

Personal life

On November 3, 2016, Barer publicly came out as lesbian with a status update on Twitter. ^{[6] [7]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong	Sonali Matthews	Direct-to-video
	Stellina Blue	Kamand
2011	All Kids Count	Maria
2017	A Place I'd Like To Be		Short film
2018	Ladyworld	Olivia
2021	The Ultimate Playlist of Noise	Sarah
	Disfluency	Lacy
2022	How to Blow Up a Pipeline	Xochitl	Also co-writer and producer
2023	Oddities	Laila	Short film
TBA	See You When I See You		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Yo Gabba Gabba!	Super Martian Robot Girl (voice)	Recurring role
2008	ER	Jasmine Escalante	Episode: "Life After Death"
	90210	Rana Shirazi	Episode: "Games People Play"
2009	Valentine	Young Wendy	Episode: "She's Gone"
	Weeds	Scout	Episode: "Perro Insano"
2011	Keenan's Crush	Samantha	4 episodes
2012	New Girl	Young Cece	2 episodes
2013	King John	Sofie	Television film
2014	Modern Family	Sophie	Episode: "And One to Grow On"
	I Didn't Do It	Megan	Episode: "Ball or Nothing"
	Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street	Esther Pendragon	Episode: "Ranger and the Legend of Pendragon's Gavel"
2015	Liv and Maddie	Shayna	Episode: "Muffler-A-Rooney"
	The Thundermans	Kylie	Episode: "Exit Stage Theft"
2016	K.C. Undercover	Alexis McCreery	Episode: "Undercover Mother"
2017	One Day at a Time	Carmen	4 episodes
2017–2018	Atypical	Bailey Bennett	7 episodes
2017–2019	Runaways	Gertrude "Gert" Yorkes	Main cast
2020	Grey's Anatomy	Paula	Episode: "Life on Mars?"
2021	Rebel	Ziggie	Main role
2021	Saved by the Bell	Chloe	5 episodes
2025	The Last of Us	Mel

References

1. "'One Day at a Time's Goth Carmen Is Now a Superhero on Marvel's Runaways". remezcla.com.
2. "'The Beautiful Barer Sisters Compare Beauty Notes'". April 16, 2018. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
3. "'One Day at a Time's Goth Carmen is Now a Superhero on Marvel's 'Runaways'".
4. "The Love-Inns". Bandcamp . Retrieved July 28, 2017.
5. Strom, Marc (February 2, 2017). "Marvel's Runaways Finds Its Cast". Marvel.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
6. Mey (December 24, 2017). "Ariela Barer is Gay: "One Day at a Time" and "Runaways" Star Comes Out on Twitter, Happy Holigays Everybody". Autostraddle. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
7. Barer, Ariela [@ArielaBarer] (November 3, 2016). "Literally everything I do is to get back at the people who called me ugly & gay in middle school. They were right, but it was mean spirited!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links

• Ariela Barer at IMDb