Emily Alyn Lind
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Emily Alyn Lind (born May 6, 2002, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress who began her career as a child performer. She is the daughter of producer and assistant director John Lind and actress Barbara Alyn Woods, and the sister of fellow actresses Natalie Alyn Lind and Alyvia Alyn Lind. She made her screen debut at age five, playing a younger version of Dakota Fanning's character in The Secret Life of Bees (2008).
She became known to young audiences through her recurring role as young Amanda Clarke in the ABC series Revenge, and for her role as Ariel in the CBS medical drama Code Black. Her film credits include The Babysitter (2017) and The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020), both Netflix originals, and Doctor Sleep (2019), the sequel to The Shining, where she played Snakebite Andi. From 2021 to 2023, she starred as Audrey Hope in the HBO Max teen drama Gossip Girl.
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), Lind portrayed Melody, a young ghost connected to the history of the Firehouse. Director Gil Kenan gave her the 1946 film Sylvie and the Ghost as preparation material, and she has noted that she did not learn her character was a ghost until filming began. Her scenes were shot without motion capture equipment, and an early plan to keep Melody perpetually floating via a mechanical rig was abandoned in favour of a more grounded approach.