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)
Children1
Parent
Relatives Teal Bunbury (brother)
Mataeo Bunbury (brother)

Kylie Bunbury (born January 30, 1989) [2] [3] is a Canadian-American actress.

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Life

Bunbury was born in Montreal, Canada, to Kristi Novak [4] 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. [5] She has three younger brothers: Teal, Mataeo, and Logan. [6] [7] [8]

Bunbury became engaged to Jon-Ryan Alan Riggins on April 8, 2018. [9] They married on January 1, 2020. [10] Her pregnancy was announced in June 2021, [11] and their son was born on December 6, 2021. [12]

Career

Bunbury originally worked as a model, and began acting at her agency's suggestion. [4] [13] She landed her first role as Kathleen in Days of Our Lives for one episode. [13] She also had roles in Prom and The Sitter . [13] Bunbury portrayed Eva in the science fiction CBS television series Under the Dome . [14] 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. [15] [16] [17]

Bunbury starred as Angie Richardson in the Netflix miniseries When They See Us , which premiered on May 31, 2019. [18]

In 2020, Bunbury was in the main cast [19] 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 . [20]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011 Prom Jordan Lundley
2011 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
2015 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"
2018 Get Christie Love Christie LoveTV film
2019 When They See Us Angie RichardsonMain role, 4 episodes
2020 The Twilight Zone ClaudiaEpisode: "Try, Try"
2020 Brave New World Frannie CrowneMain role
2020–2023 Big Sky Cassie DewellLead role

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