Kylie Bunbury

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Kylie Bunbury
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Bunbury in 2019
Born (1989-01-30) January 30, 1989 (age 35)
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present
Spouse
Jon-Ryan Alan Riggins
(m. 2020)
Children2 [2]
Father Alex Bunbury
Relatives Teal Bunbury (brother)
Mataeo Bunbury (brother)

Kylie Bunbury (born January 30, 1989) [3] [4] is a Canadian-American actress.

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Life

Bunbury was born in Montreal, Canada, to Kristi Novak [5] and Alex Bunbury, a soccer player. Her father is Guyanese-Canadian. She spent her childhood in England (for two years), Madeira, Portugal (for seven years) and Prior Lake, Minnesota, US. She considers Prior Lake home. [6] She has three younger brothers: Teal, Mataeo, and Logan. [7] [8] [9]

Bunbury became engaged to Jon-Ryan Alan Riggins on April 8, 2018. [10] They married on January 1, 2020. [11] Her pregnancy was announced in June 2021, [12] and their son was born on December 6, 2021. [13]

Career

Bunbury originally worked as a model, and began acting at her agency's suggestion. [5] [14] She landed her first role as Kathleen in Days of Our Lives for one episode. [14] She also had roles in Prom and The Sitter . [14] Bunbury portrayed Eva in the science fiction CBS television series Under the Dome . [15] Bunbury starred in the Fox drama series Pitch , where she portrayed the (fictional) first female player in Major League Baseball. Pitch was canceled by Fox after one season on May 1, 2017. [16] [17] [18]

Bunbury starred as Angie Richardson in the Netflix miniseries When They See Us , which premiered on May 31, 2019. [19]

In 2020, Bunbury was in the main cast [20] for the Peacock adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World . The series was cancelled after one season. That same year, she began playing Cassie Dewell in the ABC crime drama series Big Sky . [21]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011 Prom Jordan Lundley
The Sitter Roxanne
2014No Kid-ing!LaurenShort film
2018 Game Night Michelle Sterling
2020 Eat Wheaties! Allison
2021 Warning Anna

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010 Days of Our Lives KathleenEpisode: #1.11388
2013–2014 Twisted Lacey PorterMain role; 19 episodes
2015 Under the Dome Eva Sinclair / Dawn Sinclair-BarbaraMain role (season 3); 13 episodes
Tut SuhadTelevision mini-series
2016 Pitch Genevieve "Ginny" BakerLead role; 10 episodes
2017 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Detective Devin HolidayEpisode: "Chasing Demons"
2018 Robot Chicken Helga Pataki / Oscar's Mom / Girl (voices)Episode: "Jew No. 1 Opens a Treasure Chest"
Get Christie Love Christie LoveTV film
2019 When They See Us Angie RichardsonMain role, 4 episodes
2020 The Twilight Zone ClaudiaEpisode: "Try, Try"
Brave New World Frannie CrowneMain role
2020–2023 Big Sky Cassie DewellLead role

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