# Emily Alyn Lind
**Emily Alyn Lind** (born 2001) is an American actress who began working as a child performer in 2008 and became known for playing Audrey Hope in the [HBO Max](https://www.edgepedia.org/hbo-max) reboot of *Gossip Girl* (2021–2023) and Cadence Sinclair Eastman in Prime Video's *[We Were Liars](https://www.edgepedia.org/we-were-liars-tv-series)* (2025).[1](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/Emily-Alyn-Lind/) • [2](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/we-were-liars-this-years-soapy-teen-thriller-about-rich-peoples-secrets/) Sources disagree on her birth year, giving 2000, 2001, or 2002.[1](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/Emily-Alyn-Lind/) • [3](https://snapshot.apple.com/us/person/6621232072) • [4](https://washingtonindependent.org/emily-alyn-lind-movies-and-tv-shows/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | May 6, Brooklyn, New York; sources give the year as 2000, 2001, or 2002[1](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/Emily-Alyn-Lind/) • [3](https://snapshot.apple.com/us/person/6621232072) |
| Career start | *The Secret Life of Bees* (2008), playing the younger version of Dakota Fanning's character at about age 6[1](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/Emily-Alyn-Lind/) |
| Breakout TV role | Audrey Hope in HBO Max's *Gossip Girl* reboot, two seasons, 2021–2023[2](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/we-were-liars-this-years-soapy-teen-thriller-about-rich-peoples-secrets/) • [5](https://www.glamour.com/story/gossip-girls-emily-alyn-lind-new-here) |
| Lead role | Cadence Sinclair Eastman in *We Were Liars* (Prime Video, 2025), an eight-episode adaptation of E. Lockhart's 2014 YA novel[2](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/we-were-liars-this-years-soapy-teen-thriller-about-rich-peoples-secrets/) |
| Notable film roles | Melanie in *The Babysitter* and *The Babysitter: Killer Queen*; Snakebite Andi in *Doctor Sleep* (2019); Melody in *Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire* (2024)[6](https://guides.justwatch.com/uk/emily-alyn-lind-movies-shows) • [7](https://cinegraph.org/people/emily-alyn-lind) |
| Family | Daughter of actress Barbara Alyn Woods (*One Tree Hill*) and John Lind; sisters Natalie Alyn Lind and Alyvia Alyn Lind are also actresses[8](https://businessupturn.com/usa/entertainment/celebrity-news/emily-alyn-lind-reflects-on-growing-up-in-hollywood/) |
| Output | Almost 50 acting credits by age 24, spanning 2008 to 2026[6](https://guides.justwatch.com/uk/emily-alyn-lind-movies-shows) • [9](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3014840) |
## Early career as a child actress
Lind entered the industry through her family. She has said she began acting out of jealousy when her older sister got a guest part on their mother's show, and her first screen role came at around age five or six.[10](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/gossip-girls-emily-alyn-lind-is-not-who-you-think-she-is) • [1](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/Emily-Alyn-Lind/) Her debut was as Young Lily in *The Secret Life of Bees* (2008), a younger incarnation of [Dakota Fanning](https://www.edgepedia.org/dakota-fanning)'s lead character.[1](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/Emily-Alyn-Lind/)
Before her tenth birthday she appeared in films by two markedly different directors: [Clint Eastwood](https://www.edgepedia.org/clint-eastwood)'s *J. Edgar* (2011), in which she played [Shirley Temple](https://www.edgepedia.org/shirley-temple), and [Gaspar Noé](https://www.edgepedia.org/gaspar-noe)'s *Enter the Void* (2009).[1](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/Emily-Alyn-Lind/) Her early years also included recurring television parts on the ABC series *Eastwick* and the soap opera *All My Children*, as well as the role of young Amanda Clarke on ABC's *Revenge*.[11](https://www.tvmaze.com/people/1216/emily-alyn-lind) She later held the recurring role of Ariel on the CBS medical drama *Code Black* across 2015 to 2018.[9](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3014840)
As a young teenager she moved between genres: the movie musical *Dear Dumb Diary* (2013), the horror film *The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia* (2013) as Heidi Wyrick, the thrillers *[Hidden](https://www.edgepedia.org/hidden-2015-film)* (2015) and *Replicas* (2018) opposite [Keanu Reeves](https://www.edgepedia.org/keanu-reeves), and the Netflix horror comedies *The Babysitter* (2017) and *The Babysitter: Killer Queen* (2020), in which she played Melanie, the best friend of the lead character Cole.[9](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3014840) • [6](https://guides.justwatch.com/uk/emily-alyn-lind-movies-shows) • [3](https://snapshot.apple.com/us/person/6621232072) In Mike Flanagan's *Doctor Sleep* (2019), the adaptation of [Stephen King](https://www.edgepedia.org/stephen-king)'s sequel to *The Shining*, she played Snakebite Andi.[7](https://cinegraph.org/people/emily-alyn-lind) She also recorded four songs for the *Dear Dumb Diary* soundtrack in 2013, including "Just a Number".[3](https://snapshot.apple.com/us/person/6621232072)
## Gossip Girl and We Were Liars
In 2021 Lind was cast as Audrey Hope in HBO Max's continuation of *Gossip Girl*, a member of the Constance Billard elite entangled in a three-way relationship with Aki (Evan Mock) and Max (Thomas Doherty).[5](https://www.glamour.com/story/gossip-girls-emily-alyn-lind-new-here) The show ran for two seasons before HBO Max canceled it in 2023.[1](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/Emily-Alyn-Lind/) Lind later said the series was the first time she experienced large-scale fame, and that by its end she felt it "had run its course".[12](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/emily-alyn-lind-we-were-liars-interview)
She had previously starred in a project centered on her with *Dear Dumb Diary*, a 2013 [Hallmark Channel](https://www.edgepedia.org/hallmark-channel) film in which she played Jamie Kelly, but her first such role on television came with *We Were Liars*, the 2025 Prime Video adaptation of E. Lockhart's novel.[14](https://www.kristinhanggi.com/project-archive/dear-dumb-diary) She plays Cadence Sinclair Eastman, the oldest granddaughter of a wealthy family that summers on a private island, alongside cousins Mirren ([Esther McGregor](https://www.edgepedia.org/esther-mcgregor)) and Johnny ([Joseph Zada](https://www.edgepedia.org/joseph-zada)) and family friend Gat (Shubham Maheshwari).[2](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/we-were-liars-this-years-soapy-teen-thriller-about-rich-peoples-secrets/) The eight-episode season reveals that Cadence's cousins and Gat died in a fire she had proposed, and that she has been speaking with them without registering their deaths.[12](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/emily-alyn-lind-we-were-liars-interview) Lind helped shape the final scene, a long take in which Cadence runs down a beach and leaves her family behind.[12](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/emily-alyn-lind-we-were-liars-interview)
In 2024 she appeared as Melody in *Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire*.[7](https://cinegraph.org/people/emily-alyn-lind)
## Upcoming projects and directing
Several 2026 productions feature Lind. [David Fincher](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-fincher)'s *The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth*, a sequel to *Once Upon a Time in Hollywood* following [Brad Pitt](https://www.edgepedia.org/brad-pitt)'s character as a Hollywood fixer, has cast her in an undisclosed role alongside Brad Pitt, Timothy Olyphant, Carla Gugino, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and [Elizabeth Debicki](https://www.edgepedia.org/elizabeth-debicki).[6](https://guides.justwatch.com/uk/emily-alyn-lind-movies-shows) She also appears in *Chapter 51*, a thriller about a serial killer called the Hollywood Killer, as Effy Mankiewicz; in *Pretty Babies*, an indie drama from first-time feature director Tyler-Marie Evans in which she plays a teenager who runs away to Hollywood; and in an adaptation of David Mamet's *Speed the Plow* as Karen, opposite Sharon Stone, Anthony Mackie, and Ben Mendelsohn.[6](https://guides.justwatch.com/uk/emily-alyn-lind-movies-shows) • [3](https://snapshot.apple.com/us/person/6621232072)
Directing has become her stated long-term goal. In 2025 she was greenlit for her directorial debut, *Where Are They Now*, a psychological thriller set in 2006 about child actors.[13](https://www.elitedaily.com/lifestyle/emily-alyn-lind-travel-bag-essentials) She has said acting can feel limiting and that directing "might be the great love of my life".[12](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/emily-alyn-lind-we-were-liars-interview)
## References
1. [Emily Alyn Lind, TV Insider](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/Emily-Alyn-Lind/)
2. [This Year's Soapy Teen Thriller About Rich People's Secrets, The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/we-were-liars-this-years-soapy-teen-thriller-about-rich-peoples-secrets/)
3. [Emily Alyn Lind – Movies, TV Shows, and Music, Apple Snapshot](https://snapshot.apple.com/us/person/6621232072)
4. [Emily Alyn Lind Movies And TV Shows, Washington Independent](https://washingtonindependent.org/emily-alyn-lind-movies-and-tv-shows/)
5. [Emily Alyn Lind Never Thought About Being Famous—Then Gossip Girl Happened, Glamour](https://www.glamour.com/story/gossip-girls-emily-alyn-lind-new-here)
6. [5 Movies & TV Shows You Know Emily Alyn Lind From (& 3 Upcoming), JustWatch](https://guides.justwatch.com/uk/emily-alyn-lind-movies-shows)
7. [Emily Alyn Lind, Cinegraph](https://cinegraph.org/people/emily-alyn-lind)
8. [Emily Alyn Lind reflects on growing up in Hollywood, Business Upturn](https://businessupturn.com/usa/entertainment/celebrity-news/emily-alyn-lind-reflects-on-growing-up-in-hollywood/)
9. [Emily Alyn Lind, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3014840)
10. [Gossip Girl's Emily Alyn Lind Is Not Who You Think She Is, Interview Magazine](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/gossip-girls-emily-alyn-lind-is-not-who-you-think-she-is)
11. [Emily Alyn Lind, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/people/1216/emily-alyn-lind)
12. [Emily Alyn Lind on We Were Liars Ending and Season 2 Potential, Teen Vogue](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/emily-alyn-lind-we-were-liars-interview)
13. [Emily Alyn Lind Shares What's In Her Travel Bag, Elite Daily](https://www.elitedaily.com/lifestyle/emily-alyn-lind-travel-bag-essentials)
14. [Dear Dumb Diary, Kristin Hanggi](https://www.kristinhanggi.com/project-archive/dear-dumb-diary)
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