Emma Myers bio, best roles, age, relationships, height, parents 2025

Biography of Emma Myers

Emma Myers is a young American actress who gained fame for her role as Enid Sinclair in the TV series "Wednesday". She played the roommate of the main character, trying her best to befriend the gloomy Wednesday Addams. In 2023, Emma was offered the lead role in the drama series "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder."

Childhood, Youth, Family

Emma was born in the spring of 2002 to Jeremy Myers and Nicole Cassimatis in Orlando, Florida. She has Greek roots on her mother's side. Besides her, the parents raised three more daughters – Avery, Olivia, and Isabel. Later, the whole family moved to Atlanta.

Emma received her primary education at home and, according to her, turned into a "nerd and introvert". She had an overactive imagination and spent her free time glued to the computer, obsessing over "The Lord of the Rings", "Star Wars" and games featuring orcs, titans, and superheroes.

In middle school, Emma became interested in emo culture and bands like Twenty One Pilots, Panic at the Disco, and Fall Out Boy. Myers would spend hours on YouTube watching Dan and Phil's show, and when she finally saw them live in concert, she went all out buying merch covered with their faces. But when she wore a t-shirt featuring her idols to dance rehearsal, the other kids weren't exactly thrilled about Emma's obsession. She later recalled:

I was kind of an outsider because I was more passionate about things than the average kid. And I was bullied for it. Some people can't let go of the fact that people like things that make them happy.

Even though she was involved in choreography and school productions, she'd rather spend time alone than hang out with classmates.

Circuit Acting Showcase "Dancer Scene" (Emma and Isabel Myers)

After school, Myers earned a Master of Arts degree in acting from Brooklyn College and McGill University.

Acting Career

Emma scored her first small roles in 2010, appearing in the movies "Crooked" and "Letters to God," plus the TV series "The Glades."

Emma Myers: Don't Mess with Werewolves

Myers didn't return to acting until 2019, when she landed a small role as Stephanie in the dramedy "The Baker and the Beauty," starring Nathalie Kelley. That same year, she also appeared in the short film "Love. Innocence."

The following year, the young actress expanded her filmography with roles in the TV series "Dead of Night" (as the "Magnolia" girl), the television movie "A Taste of Christmas" (as Bibi Jordan), and the short film "Immortal" (as Mavis Nebic).

Emma Myers in the movie 'A Taste of Christmas'

One of Emma's most notable experiences was filming the thriller "Girl in the Basement," where she played one of the central roles - Marie Cody. The film, based on true events, tells the story of young Sara, who was held captive in a basement by her tyrannical father for over twenty years.

Emma Myers in the movie 'Girl in the Basement'

Emma Myers' breakthrough came in 2022. When she learned that her beloved Tim Burton was planning to shoot a Netflix series about the Addams family, she auditioned. After several Zoom calls, including a script reading with Jenna Ortega, who was cast as Wednesday and who Myers thought had gotten angry with her ("I literally hung up and started crying," she recalls), Emma found out she had been cast as Enid.

I answered the call, and my representative said, 'Hold on, there's something wrong with my phone, so I'll call you back in a second.' She calls me back and asks, 'Do you think you'll have this problem when you're in Romania?' I remember a wave of excitement washing over me - I ran out of the room and screamed, 'Mom, I did it!'

The series, titled "Wednesday," was released at the end of 2022. The plot centers on Wednesday Addams, who is sent to a boarding school for children with "specialties" as punishment. Enid Sinclair is her roommate and the total opposite of the gloomy and introverted Wednesday. As a werewolf, Enid is optimistic, sweet, bright, and bubbling with energy. Emma invented a more colorful style for her character, painting her nails and hair in different colors.

On set, Myers worked with Georgie Farmer, who played her love interest Ajax, and got very nervous when filming scenes with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Christina Ricci. But her famous colleagues were attentive and helped Emma cope with her on-camera jitters.

Without much fanfare, the young actress befriended Jenna, as well as Percy Hynes White and Jonna Dia Watson. Off-camera, the group would throw parties, play video games, and celebrate birthdays together.

Jenna Ortega & Emma Myers on 'Wednesday and Expanding' 'The Addams Family' Universe

The series was incredibly successful, and in 2023, Myers starred in two main roles in the comedy "Family Switch" (as CC Walker) and the biographical drama "Southern Gospel" (as Angie Blackburn). Reflecting on how busy she was, to the point that she didn't realize how popular "Wednesday" had become, Emma said:

...I only really realized how well it was doing some time later, because not even a week after 'Wednesday' came out, I was already flying to Los Angeles to film, and I was just swamped with material. So, I didn't really keep track of how well it was all going. By the Christmas holidays, when I was able to come home and see my family and all that, it hit me: 'Oh, wow. In just a month, it has become the top show on Netflix.' It was madness.

Personal Life of Emma Myers

While the young actress keeps her relationships private, she loves sharing photos from her travels. Iceland made a particularly strong impression on Emma. She is also a fan of K-pop music, especially the work of the South Korean band Seventeen.

Emma Myers on Preparing to be a Werewolf in Wednesday and Her SEVENTEEN Obsession

Emma is incredibly close to her parents and sisters, and always includes sweet emojis when texting them.

Emma Myers with her sister and the band Seventeen

Emma Myers Now

2024 was shaping up to be a packed year for the actress. She was offered the lead role of Pippa Fitz-Amobi in the series "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder". In this detective thriller, Myers's character is a seventeen-year-old girl who has taken on the investigation of a five-year-old murder. Pippa believes the real killer was never caught, despite a young man being accused of the crime, and his brother Ravi helps her track down the actual murderer.

Emma Myers on the set of the TV series 'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder'

Emma also excitedly announced her return for "Wednesday" season two, though she has no clue what the new episodes will bring:

They wrote to my email, and I was like, 'Oh, cool'... I felt that it would happen. I think everyone felt that it would happen. I thought about it even before we finished filming, simply because of the material we were shooting. I knew it would be huge, but I had no idea it would be this massive. I was sure that there must be more, because we all liked every bit of it, and we really felt that people like it too.

Interesting Facts

When asked which characters she would like to play in which films, Emma Myers said she would love to try on the role of Catwoman in new variations of Batman. She also mentioned Oscar Isaac and Christopher Nolan as dream collaborators, and revealed she's dying for a screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere". The story features a character named Door, and Myers says she'd fight tooth and nail for that role.

Myers' favorite horror movies are "Train to Busan" and "A Quiet Place". She's totally into the zombie genre. For crime series fans, she highly recommends the Chinese show "Being a Hero" (2022) starring Wang Yibo, calling it "incredible."

In her correspondence, Emma always uses emojis. When reporters asked which ones she uses most, Myers revealed: "A red heart, but only because I use it every time my family members write to me. My go-to emoji is actually the guy with the monocle who's like 'Hmm?' I'm always sending that to my friends when something seems sketchy."