Isabella Camille Briones is an American actor and singer.
30 Facts About Isa Briones
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Isa Briones began her career as a model in New York City at age three, and started acting in feature films and stage productions in 2008.
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Isa Briones won the Ovation Award for Featured Actress In a Musical for Next to Normal in 2018 in Los Angeles.
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Isa Briones was born in London, England, to Jon Jon Briones and Megan Briones, and she has a younger brother, Teo.
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Isa Briones is Filipino on her father's side, and Swedish and Irish on her mother's.
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Isa Briones's parents met in Stuttgart while auditioning for Miss Saigon; her father was closing its West End theatre production when Briones was born.
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Isa Briones was ten months old when her family moved from London to New York City, where she began work as a model at age three.
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In 2006, when Isa Briones was seven, her family moved to Los Angeles.
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Isa Briones learned acting and singing at home from her parents.
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Isa Briones majored in theatre and musical theatre at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
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Isa Briones began her acting career as a child in 2008.
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Isa Briones appeared in television commercials and played supporting roles in feature films including Brown Soup Thing, Takers and Lonely Boy.
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In 2019, Isa Briones was cast in Star Trek: Picard as two sets of synthetic twins: Dahj and Soji, and Jana and Sutra.
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Isa Briones sent tapes of herself to audition for the web television series while she was playing multiple roles on stage in Hamilton, and learned during the process that she would portray twins in the series.
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Isa Briones made her debut as both Dahj and Soji during the season premiere in January 2020.
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Scott Collura of IGN wrote that Soji is effectively a plot device, but Isa Briones "gives it her all week after week, reacting best she can to Soji's changing status quo".
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Isa Briones confirmed on May 6,2022, that Soji will not be returning for the series' third season.
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Isa Briones plays Jane, a bookworm thought by her high-school classmates to be a snob.
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Isa Briones played Susan in a Los Angeles production of Miracle on 34th Street, in which Megan Briones appeared as her mother.
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In 2018, Isa Briones earned three Ovation Award nominations for Featured Actress In a Musical from the LA STAGE Alliance.
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Isa Briones was nominated for her portrayal of Peron's mistress in Evita, and won for her performance in one of two discrete productions of Next to Normal.
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Isa Briones joined her father when he moved back to New York in January 2018.
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Isa Briones was cast in Hamilton following a seven-month audition process, becoming at age 19 the youngest person to join the first national touring company.
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Isa Briones toured with the company until March 2019, and was cast in Star Trek: Picard in April.
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Isa Briones returned to the stage in Los Angeles in April 2022 for a reading of Graves, a play written by Ellie Pyle and directed by Bola Ogun.
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Isa Briones has recorded several video duets with fellow Filipino-American performer AJ Rafael.
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Composer Jeff Russo wrote a new arrangement for the episode, and series co-creator Alex Kurtzman suggested they ask Isa Briones to perform the vocals.
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Isa Briones said, "it's so right that this is the song" playing at the end of Data's journey.
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Isa Briones's rendition was released as a single in 2020.
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In July of that year, Isa Briones took part in the Star Trek Universe Virtual Panel for Comic-Con@Home, the virtual event that replaced San Diego Comic-Con in 2020.