Ariela Barer is an American actress, best known for playing the role of Gert Yorkes in the Hulu series Runaways, Ziggy in the ABC series Rebel, and Xochitl in the 2022 film How to Blow Up a Pipeline. She is set to portray Mel in the HBO series The Last of Us.
Early life
Both her parents are Mexican-born Jews.[1]
Her older sister Libe Barer[2][3] is also an actress.
Career
Ariela Barer started acting at the age of three and started professionally at nine. She has since starred in a variety of projects and performed as part of an indie rock band called The Love-Inns.[4] She was cast as Gert Yorkes on Runaways, which aired its first season on Hulu, as part of its original programming, from November 21, 2017 to January 9, 2018.[5] She also portrayed Carmen on One Day at a Time and Bailey Bennett on Atypical.

Personal life
On November 3, 2016, Barer publicly came out as lesbian with a status update on Twitter.[6][7]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2009 | An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong | Sonali Matthews | Direct-to-video |
Stellina Blue | Kamand | ||
2011 | All Kids Count | Maria | |
2017 | A Place I'd Like To Be | Short film | |
2018 | Ladyworld | Olivia | |
2021 | The Ultimate Playlist of Noise | Sarah | |
Disfluency | Lacy | ||
2022 | How to Blow Up a Pipeline | Xochitl | Also co-writer and producer |
2023 | Oddities | Laila | Short film |
TBA | See You When I See You | Filming |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
2007 | Yo Gabba Gabba! | Super Martian Robot Girl (voice) | Recurring role |
2008 | ER | Jasmine Escalante | Episode: "Life After Death" |
90210 | Rana Shirazi | Episode: "Games People Play" | |
2009 | Valentine | Young Wendy | Episode: "She's Gone" |
Weeds | Scout | Episode: "Perro Insano" | |
2011 | Keenan's Crush | Samantha | 4 episodes |
2012 | New Girl | Young Cece | 2 episodes |
2013 | King John | Sofie | Television film |
2014 | Modern Family | Sophie | Episode: "And One to Grow On" |
I Didn't Do It | Megan | Episode: "Ball or Nothing" | |
Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street | Esther Pendragon | Episode: "Ranger and the Legend of Pendragon's Gavel" | |
2015 | Liv and Maddie | Shayna | Episode: "Muffler-A-Rooney" |
The Thundermans | Kylie | Episode: "Exit Stage Theft" | |
2016 | K.C. Undercover | Alexis McCreery | Episode: "Undercover Mother" |
2017 | One Day at a Time | Carmen | 4 episodes |
2017–2018 | Atypical | Bailey Bennett | 7 episodes |
2017–2019 | Runaways | Gertrude "Gert" Yorkes | Main cast |
2020 | Grey's Anatomy | Paula | Episode: "Life on Mars?" |
2021 | Rebel | Ziggie | Main role |
2021 | Saved by the Bell | Chloe | 5 episodes |
2025 | The Last of Us | Mel |
References
- ^ "'One Day at a Time's Goth Carmen Is Now a Superhero on Marvel's Runaways". remezcla.com.
- ^ "'The Beautiful Barer Sisters Compare Beauty Notes'". April 16, 2018. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
- ^ "'One Day at a Time's Goth Carmen is Now a Superhero on Marvel's 'Runaways'".
- ^ "The Love-Inns". Bandcamp. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
- ^ Strom, Marc (February 2, 2017). "Marvel's Runaways Finds Its Cast". Marvel.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
- ^ Mey (December 24, 2017). "Ariela Barer is Gay: "One Day at a Time" and "Runaways" Star Comes Out on Twitter, Happy Holigays Everybody". Autostraddle. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
- ^ Barer, Ariela [@ArielaBarer] (November 3, 2016). "Literally everything I do is to get back at the people who called me ugly & gay in middle school. They were right, but it was mean spirited!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
External links
- Ariela Barer at IMDb
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