Biography
Stefania LaVie Owen is a New Zealand-American actress most recognized for her appearances in the television series Running Wilde and in the teen drama television series The Carrie Diaries. She played Melanie in the film Paper Spiders, Bear in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth, and Nicole Chance in the Hulu original psychological thriller Chance.
Age
She is 26 years old as of 15 December 2023. She was born in 1997 in Miami, Florida, United States. Her real name is Stefania LaVie Owen.
Family – Education
Owen was born to an American mother and a New Zealander father. Her mother is of Cuban heritage. Owen came to New Zealand at the age of four and settled in Pauatahanui, a hamlet 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Wellington. Owen resides between New York City and Wellington. She attended Pauatahanui School and won the performing arts cup, which helped launch her acting career. She also went to Chilton Saint James School, an all-girls private school in Lower Hutt, Wellington. Her sisters Lolo and Carly joined her there, and she participated in numerous school performances and dancing workshops.
Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m).
Sweet Tooth
She appeared as Becky/Bear since Season 1. Becky was adopted at a young age into a household with a hybrid daughter (Wendy). Her parents were assassinated one day by Last Men while protecting a hybrid child, and Wendy was taken away. Becky had been alone since then, until she met a girl named Tiger and other orphaned children. Becky founded the Animal Army, a group that revolted against the Last Men and fought for the rights of all hybrids, as opposed to others who blamed hybrids for causing the virus and sought to eliminate them.
Becky (also known as Bear) and a rescue party made up of Tiger, Rhino, and Pony saved Gus from the Last Men while he and Jepp were being led somewhere. Becky ordered Jepp’s death due to his prior involvement with the Last Men, but when Gus begs Becky to keep him alive, she considers it for the time being out of curiosity. Taking them back to their headquarters, Becky learns more about Gus and discloses Jepp’s “true” identity. Despite this, Gus forgives Big Man and requests that he not be killed, with Becky promising that it would not happen without her approval.
Messiah
She portrays Rebecca Iguero on the American thriller television series Netflix’s Messiah. The show is on how the contemporary world responds to a guy who initially makes an appearance in the Middle East and whose adherents believe he is ϿĪsā (Jesus in Arabic), the prophecy of his return. His abrupt arrival and apparent miracles sparked an international following, raising questions about who he truly is, a case probed by a CIA Case Officer.
The Carrie Diaries
She played Dorrit Bradshaw, Carrie’s troubled, 14-year-old, rebellious younger sister, in the American teen comedy-drama television series The Carrie Diaries. She openly resents Carrie for being close to their mother and not spending more time with her. She rebels by coloring her hair, wearing too much eye make-up, and dating a boy older than Carrie named Miller. The CW picked up the pilot for a 13-episode series in May 2012. Four months into the first season, the network renewed The Carrie Diaries for a second season, which debuted in October 2013. The CW canceled the series in May 2014, after two seasons.
Running Wilde
She appeared as Puddle Kadubic in the American sitcom Running Wilde. Mitchell Hurwitz, Arnett, and fellow cast member David Cross previously collaborated on Fox’s Arrested Development. Running Wilde shared numerous stylistic parallels with Arrested Development, including multiple cutaway gags and a narrator who remarks on the characters’ motivations. Furthermore, the series appears to live in the same universe as Arrested Development, as the nightclub in the penultimate episode “The Pre-nup” is designed by the fictional Bluth Company from Arrested Development. The sitcom marked British actor-comedian Peter Serafinowicz’s debut network TV appearance in the United States, playing Wilde’s idle-rich friend and neighbor Fa-ad Shaoulin.
The show premiered on September 21, 2010. The sitcom was discontinued mid-season due to low ratings after just 13 episodes were produced. The final four episodes of the series aired on FX in late April and May 2011. The show was filmed in Sands Point Preserve on Long Island, New York. Keri Russell commuted from her Brooklyn home, which is around 25 miles distant, while Arnett commuted from Manhattan. Production assistants looked for props at a Macy’s in nearby Manhasset.
Movies and TV Shows
♦ 2022 – Don’t Make Me Go
♦ 2021-2024 – Sweet Tooth
♦ 2021 – Paper Spiders
♦ 2020 – Messiah
♦ 2020 – The Wilds
♦ 2019 – The Cat and the Moon
♦ 2019 – The Beach Bum
♦ 2018 – I’m Dying Up Here
♦ 2016–2017 – Chance
♦ 2016 – All We Had
♦ 2015 – Krampus
♦ 2015 – Coming Through the Rye
♦ 2013–2014 – The Carrie Diaries
♦ 2011 – Home Game
♦ 2010–2011 – Running Wilde
♦ 2009 – The Lovely Bones