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Bianca Lawson

Name

Bianca Jasmine Lawson

Birthplace

Los Angeles, California

Birth date

March 20, 1979 (age 34)

Occupation

Actress

Played

Emily Bennett

Season(s)

1

Bianca Lawson is an American actress who played Emily Bennett on The Vampire Diaries. She's mainly known for her roles on TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bones. Bianca currently appears on MTV'S series Teen Wolf and ABC Family's drama TV series called Pretty Little Liars.

BiographyEdit

Bianca Lawson was born on March 20, 1979 in Los Angeles, California. She started acting at the age of nine. She has appeared in television commercials for Barbie and Revlon and in several television shows. On Buffy the Vampire Slayer she portrayed Kendra Young, another Vampire Slayer who is activated as a result of the temporary death of title character, Buffy Summers. She appeared in 4 episodes (three alive, one as a corpse). But Kendra was killed off in Part One of the season 2 finale, Becoming.

She has also appeared on The WB's Dawson's Creek, where she portrayed Nikki Green, the daughter of the high school's new principal and competitor of the show's title character Dawson Leery. She has had roles in Saved by the Bell: The New Class and films such as Save the Last Dance and Breakin' All the Rules.

In December 2009, Lawson was cast as Maya St. Germain in the TV series Pretty Little Liars based on the book series by Sara Shepard.<3

She a daughter of Denise (née Gordy) and Richard Lawson, an actor.

FilmographyEdit

                                          Movies

1998	Twice the Fear Primary Colors	Girlfriend Loretta
1999	The Pavilion	Mary
2000	Big Monster on Campus	Darien Stompanato
2001	Bones Save the Last Dance	Cynthia Nikki
2003	Jeepers Creepers II (2)	Uncredited
2004	Breakin' All the Rules Dead & Breakfast	Helen Sharp Kate
2005	Flip the Script	Angela
2006	National Lampoon's Pledge This! Broken	Monique Mia
2007	Supergator	Carla Masters
2009	Killing of Wendy Sorority Wars	Brooke Cameo

                                              TV Shows

1993-1995	Saved by the Bell: The New Class	Megan Jones
1994	What'z Up? My So-Called Life Sister,Sister	Herself Bathroom Girl # 3 Rhonda Coley
1995	In the House Me and the Boys Saved by the Bell: The New Class	Rachel Girl Megan Jones
1996	Goode Behavior	Bianca Goode
1997-1998	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Kendra Young
1997	The Parent 'Hood	Jasmine
1997,1999	Smart Guy	Jill/Shirley
1998	The Steve Harvey Show The Temptations (miniseries) Silk Stalkings	Rosalind Diana Ross Renee
1999-2000	Dawson's Creek	Nikki Green
2001	For the People The Feast of All Saints Strong Medicine The Late Late Show With Craig Kilbourn	Asia Portman Anna Bella Monroe Esperanza Maldonaldo Herself
2002	Haunted	Brandi Combs
2003	Loose Lips	Herself
2004	Fearless The Big House The Division	Harmony Kaye Angel Marilynn Reiser
2006	Living in TV Land	Herself
2008	The Cleaner	Jeannie
2009-2011	The Vampire Diaries	Emily Bennett
2009	The Secret Life of the American Teenager Bones	Shawna Albie
2010-Present	Pretty Little Liars	Maya St. Germain
2010	Nikita	Emily
2011	American Horror Story	Abby
2012-Present	Teen Wolf	Ms. Morell

External linksEdit

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TriviaEdit

In the series "Nikita" she is also named Emily and in "Pretty Little Liars" she played a girl who dated Emily (played by Shay Mitchell), who was also courted by Claire Holt's character, Samara.