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Emma Dumont Biography
Emma Dumont is an American actress, model, and dancer known for her roles as Melanie Segal in the ABC Family series Bunheads, as Emma Karn in the NBC series Aquarius and as Lorna Dane/Polaris in the FOX series The Gifted.
Emma Dumont Age
Dumont was born on November 15, 1994, in Seattle, Washington, U.S. She is 24 years old as of November 2018.
Emma Dumont Family
Dumont was born and raised in Seattle, Washington by her parents. Details about her family identities are under review.
Emma Dumont Relationship
Dumont has been in a relationship with Lukas Gage an American actor since 2017.
Emma Dumont Education
Dumont attended Washington Middle School and later James A. Garfield High School before homeschooling so that she could pursue modeling and acting. She also attended Orange County High School of the Arts in the Music and Theater Conservatory in Santa Ana, California.
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She started 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 started performing in community theater at the age of 6 with performances at Seattle Public Theatre and Seattle Musical Theatre among others. Her musical theater training includes four summers at 5th Avenue Theatre.
In 2011, she was a member of the FIRST Tech Challenge and the FIRST Robotics Competition based in Burbank, California in 2013. Dumont became a FIRST Dean’s List Finalist at the Los Angeles Regional Competition. She spoke at the 2013 FIRST World Championship at a VIP Dinner on April 26, 2013.
Emma Dumont Career
Dumont’s first film appearance was in True Adolescents in 2007 at age 12 (released 2009) along with Melissa Leo and Mark Duplass. She later appeared in the movie Dear Lemon Lima in 2008 (released 2009). Both of these movies filmed in Dumont’s hometown of Seattle.
In January 2010, Dumont won the V magazine V A Model search contest, appearing in the March 2010 issue and receiving a Ford Models contract. She worked fashion week in New York City the same year and subsequently modeled in Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, Mainland China, and Tokyo.
In 2011, she was cast in a lead role in Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan’s NBC pilot Metro, opposite Noah Emmerich and Jimmy Smits. In October 2011, Dumont was cast in the ABC Family original series, Bunheads, starred by Sutton Foster and Kelly Bishop. Throughout 2012 and early 2013, she played Melanie Segal, who attends the dance academy run by the lead’s mother-in-law in the TV series.
In 2012, she also appeared in the independent film Nobody Walks along with Dylan McDermott, John Krasinski, Jane Levy, Olivia Thirlby, and Rosemarie DeWitt.
In Fall 2013, Dumont became an FRC team mentor. In 2014 she filmed two television pilots for NBC: Aquarius, which ran for two seasons, and Salvation (starring Ashley Judd), which was not picked up as a series. In March 2017, she was cast in Fox’s pilot for an X-Men television series, The Gifted. which was picked up to series in May 2017 and premiered the same year, in October.
The Gifted
Marvel expands its footprint on the television landscape with this new family adventure series about an ordinary suburban family whose lives change course forever when they discover their children have developed mutant powers. When the threat of a hostile government forces the family to go on the run to protect themselves, they join the ranks of an underground network of mutants. Together, the group fight to survive in a world where fear and misunderstanding put them at constant risk. `X-Men’ alums Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, and Simon Kinberg are among the executive producers.
Emma Dumont Movies
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Role
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True Adolescents
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2009
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Cara
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Dear Lemon Lima
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Kellie
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Nobody Walks
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2012
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Yma
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Thinspiration
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2014
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Kayden
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Inherent Vice
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Zinnia
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The Body Tree
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2017
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Sandra
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What Lies Ahead
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2019
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Jessica
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Emma Dumont TV Shows
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Role
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Metro
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2011
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Jennifer Mullins
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Bunheads
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2012–13
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Melanie “Mel” Segal
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Mind Games
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2014
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Sofie
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Salvation
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Natalie Thompson
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Aquarius
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2015–16
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Emma Karn
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The Fosters
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2016
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Sasha
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T@gged
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2017–present
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Zoe Desaul
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The Magicians
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2017
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The White Lady
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Pretty Little Liars
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Katherine Daly
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The Gifted
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2017–present
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Lorna Dane / Polaris
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Emma Dumont Interview
BT: How do you enjoy filming The Gifted in Atlanta?
ED: Oh, it’s amazing. I love Atlanta so much! Our show was set in Atlanta for season 1 and in season 2 it’s obviously set in Washington, D.C., so we shoot more on the stages this year because it’s easy to get Atlanta to play Atlanta, but getting Washington D.C. is a different story. [laughs] But it’s been great, I really enjoy it. Georgia is obviously in the South and in history there have been a lot of similar struggles there that the mutants are facing in the show, and I think that’s super important and very cool that we get to shoot in a place that has seen these things in real life. I love it. I love Georgia. Atlanta is an amazing city, it’s so beautiful.
BT: You have a lot of personal pursuits too.
ED: Yeah! I do. [laughs] I’m a big nerd, I have a lot of different interests. Later today I’m actually going to a banjo lesson because I randomly decided at 24 years old that I wanted to play the banjo! [laughs] It’s so stupid. But why not?! I mean, it’s great. I’ve been trained in classical ballet since I was three, that’s not really something you get to leave so easily. Once you’re a dancer, you’re always a dancer and it really helps my work. Just being physical in some way, it helps characters. Actually, later this year, I’m playing a character that’s much more physical than even Lorna is, a comic book character called Razor, from the comics Razor. So I’m taking Krav Maga and continuing my ballet training for that. So yeah, I love music and I love robotics and engineering, and those things will always be my personal passions, but the dance for some reason, it really comes in handy on set. [laughs]
BT: Do you feel like you were destined to play the role of Razor?
ED: Yeah, I do a little bit, and I hope everyone else feels the same way. We’ll see, we’ll come to find out. But I do kind of feel like it was destiny. You know, when you read a script, and you’re like “that’s me!”, that’s a really weird feeling. Not that I am an assassin or anything like that [laughs], but the main core of this character is that she has several sides to her: she has a really soft sweet little girl side who misses her dad desperately, and then she ends up leading a gang of women, and she has this fierce leader side of her that you don’t want to mess with, and then she has another romantic side. There’s so many pieces of her, and I’m just like: “that’s me, that’s me, that’s me!”. Also if you just look at the comics, she looks so much like me it’s like ridiculous. [laughs] The comic creator Everett Hartsoe said that when he first saw a picture of me, he was like “That’s Razor. That’s my Razor! She looks so much like her, it’s crazy”. The big green eyes, the black hair, the pale skin—it’s also just emotionally loving this girl. I feel like I look a lot like her, so you know, it sort of worked out. [laughs]
BT: How much do you enjoy transforming on screen?
ED: Honestly, I’m obsessed. My one thing is I never want to play the same character twice and I’m so lucky that I haven’t. So yeah, it’s wild. I love changing my hair colour. The last show I was on, before T@gged and The Gifted, was called Aquarius, and it was on NBC and it was about Charles Manson. I played a 16-year-old girl and they painted me up in a tan every day and my hair was strawberry dark blonde and I just looked so different than myself, which was amazing and so fun. Even going from Zoe on T@gged to Lorna on The Gifted, we actually film those at the same time. So obviously we’re going to have the same hair colour, we’re going to look the same. But for me, it’s really important to make them different people, so you know, Lorna’s hair, even though it’s green, but sometimes it’s black for flashbacks, I want that to look very different than Zoe’s hair and I want their eyebrows to look different. So much of it is on the shoulders of the hair and make-up department and I am so grateful to work with the talented people with whom I have been able to work. Just for me, it’s very important because I never want to look just like Emma. I never want people to be like “Oh, that’s just Emma playing a role”, or “Oh, she has black hair again. Oh, she’s pale again”. There’s so much you can do with make-up and hair and obviously, with something like The Magicians, the effects make-up was above and beyond amazing and outstanding, so that’s a whole different ballgame. My favorite part is creating a character that looks different from every other character I’ve played. I love Melissa Leo for that reason. I’ll be watching a film and I won’t realize until halfway through that it’s Melissa Leo. She’s a true chameleon, and that’s who I hope to be a chameleon.