Name |
Bianca Lawson |
Height |
|
Naionality |
American |
Date of Birth |
20-March-1978 |
Place of Birth |
Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Famous for |
Acting |
Bianca Lawson is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for regular roles in the television series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Goode Behavior and Pretty Little Liars. She has also had recurring roles in the series Sister, Sister, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Vampire Diaries and Teen Wolf.
Lawson started acting at the age of nine. She has appeared in commercials for Barbie and Revlon and in several television series. In 1993, Lawson was one of the original cast members of Saved by the Bell: The New Class, she also appeared in multiple episodes of The WB sitcoms Sister, Sister, The Parent 'Hood and The Steve Harvey Show. In the late summer of 1996, Lawson co-starred in the UPN sitcom, Goode Behavior, which lasted one season.
On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lawson appeared in a three-episode stint where she portrayed Kendra Young, another Vampire Slayer who is activated as a result of the temporary death of title character, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar). Lawson has also appeared on The WB's Dawson's Creek, where she portrayed Nikki Green, the daughter of the high school's new principal and competitor of the show's title character Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek). She has also appeared in The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Shawna. She was cast in the CW television series The Vampire Diaries as Emily Bennett, a witch, like that of her descendant Bonnie Bennett.