Emma Dumont

Birthday: 15 November 1994, Seattle, Washington, USA

Height: 5' 8½" (1.74 m) 

Emma Noelle Roberts (born November 15, 1994), professionally known as Emma Dumont, is an American actress, model, and dancer. She is best known for her role as Melanie Segal in the ABC Family series, Bunheads.

Personal life

Dumont was born in Seattle, Washington. She attended Washington Middle School and later attended James A. Garfield High School before enrolling in online education in order to pursue modeling and acting. She also attended Orange County High School of the Arts in the Music and Theater Conservatory in Santa Ana, California.^[1]

She began her ballet training at age 3 and has studied at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Cornish College of the Arts and Spectrum Dance Theatre School (The Academy - pre-professional program) with summers at American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet School and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia.

She began performing in community theater at age 6 with performances at Seattle Public Theatre and Seattle Musical Theatre among others.^[2] Her musical theater training includes four summers at 5th Avenue Theatre. Dumont also is a skilled violist and violinist having played violin from age 4. She has played with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras and most recently the Glendale Youth Orchestra.^[3]

She also participates in FIRST Robotics on several teams sponsored by NASA and JPL and Walt Disney Imagineering.^[4][5]

Beginning at age 15 Dumont has also been an avid roller derby skater and is currently in the Los Angeles Derby Dolls training program - Fresh Meat. Dumont, roller derby and LADD skaters were featured in a 2013 episode of the ABC Family show Bunheads.^[6]

Career

Dumont's first film role was in True Adolescents in 2007 at age 12 (released 2009) alongside Melissa Leo and Mark Duplass. She later appeared in the movie Dear Lemon Lima in 2008 (released 2009).

In 2010, Dumont won the Ford VA Model Search contest and appeared in V Magazine and also worked fashion week in New York City that same year.^[7] Dumont has subsequently modeled in Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, China and Tokyo and has appeared in many magazines and runway shows including American Elle, Elle Japon, V Magazine, Cosmopolitan HK, Spur and Figaro.

In 2011 Dumont was cast in a lead role in Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan's NBC pilot METRO alongside Noah Emmerich and Jimmy Smits. In October 2011 Dumont was cast in the ABC Family original series, Bunheads, starring Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop. Throughout 2012 and early 2013, she portrayed lead character Melanie Segal, who attends the dance academy run by the lead's mother-in-law in the TV series.^[8][9]

Also in 2012, she appeared in the independent film Nobody Walks alongside Dylan McDermott, John Krasinski, Jane Levy, Olivia Thirlby, and Rosemarie DeWitt.^[10]

From 2011 to present, Dumont has been very involved in FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition and is currently Team Captain, Driver and Mechanical Engineer of FRC Team 980 Thunderbots.^[11] Emma became a FIRST Dean's List Finalist at the Los Angeles Regional Competition.^[12] Dumont spoke at the 2013 FIRST World Championship at a VIP Dinner on April 26, 2013.^[13]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	True Adolescents	Cara	Credited as 'Emma Noelle Roberts'
	Dear Lemon Lima	Kellie	Credited as 'Emma Noelle Roberts'
2011	Metro	Jennifer Mullins	TV movie
2012–present	Bunheads	Melanie Segal	Lead
	Nobody Walks	Yma
2014	Inherent Vice		Filming