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Riley Jackson is a California born and raised actress with both U.S. and Canadian citizenship. She began her acting career doing theater and then began booking voiceover roles and roles in a short film for GoPro and the American Film Institute (AFI). This ultimately led to being cast as a lead in the feature film "Crystal Inferno" opposite Claire Forlani at the age of 11.
Riley then landed other roles including the coveted role of the young Lily Tomlin in Netflix' award winning series "Grace and Frankie." She recently completed playing Elkie in Apple TV+'s award winning anthology series "Little America" and the family feature film "A Genie's Tail" (opposite Hero, the dog that wow'd audiences on America's Got Talent, Laura Marano, star of Disney's "Austin & Ally," Kevin Farley and John Farley (the hilarious brothers of the late Chris Farley of "SNL" and "Tommy Boy" Fame), Jake Paul (star of Disney's "Bizaardvark" and YouTube superstar), Merrick Hanna (of America's Got Talent fame), and Hunter Payton (NBC's A to Z). Riley is now set to star in the upcoming family feature film "Amazon Lost" opposite Albert Tsai (Disney's "Coop and Cami Ask the World").
In addition to acting, Riley is a filmmaker and has made numerous short films and fundraising/awareness videos including one for Cancer Support Community Los Angeles. She dances, writes music, plays the piano, guitar and drums. She has also recorded background vocals for 16x Grammy Award winning producer Humberto Gatica (Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Andrea Bocelli) including on Michael Jackson's "Earth Song" Laura Breton's Christmas Album and for Vocal Producer Kenny O'Brien (Michael Buble; Celine Dion). She was also the lead vocalist for Music Sense on 30 children's songs.
Riley has a social media presence and has been featured with superstars Jake Paul, David Dobrick, Jason Nash, Alex Ernest, Nick Crompton, Nathan Speiser and Tristan Tales. Her 'Muscal.ly (now TikTok) videos were also 'Featured' several times. She has traveled throughout the world and often attends international film and television markets with her parents who are film executives including Cannes, Miptv, Mipcom, Budapest, Hong Kong, Moscow, London, and Toronto, thereby being exposed to the business side of entertainment. She is the founder of the charity Driving Miss Daizy, is founder and president of Cancer Support Community Los Angeles Junior Board and also the City of Hope Junior Board. She also chairs and plans fundraising events in connection with the Junior Boards, including the 2022 Hallowee For Hope event at LA's Orpheum Theater and hosted by Raven Symone, and the Celebrity Sale 4 Hope that she co-hosted with John Schneider, Erik McCormack and others.