Isabella Camille Briones[ (; born January 17, 1999)][ Cites pronunciation.][ is an American actor and singer.][ Cites birth place and date, American Crime Story. Cites actor and singer. Cites actor and singer.] She rose to prominence for her starring roles in the CBS / Paramount+ series (2020–22), including Soji, an android "daughter" of Data. She also starred as Margot Stokes in the first season of the Disney+/Hulu series Goosebumps (2023) and as Dr. Trinity Santos in the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt (2025).
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. She won the Ovation Awards for Featured Actress In a Musical for Next to Normal (2018) in Los Angeles. Afterward, she returned to New York and became the youngest performer in the first touring company of Hamilton, and made her Broadway theatre debut, playing Eurydice in Hadestown (2024).
Briones sang a new arrangement of "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin for the season one finale of Star Trek: Picard.
Early life
Isa Briones was born in London, England to Jon Jon Briones and Megan Briones ( Johnson) and she has a younger brother, Teo. Her family members are all musical theater actors.[ Cites full name.]
Her parents met in Stuttgart while auditioning for Miss Saigon;[ She was ten months old when her family moved from London to New York City, where she began work as a model at age three. In 2006, when Briones was seven, her family moved to Los Angeles.][
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Briones learned acting and singing at home from her parents. She majored in theatre and musical theatre at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.[Nepales (January 30, 2020), p.2 . Retrieved April 6, 2020.]
Career
Film and television
Briones began her acting career as a child in 2008. She appeared in television commercials and played supporting roles in feature films including Brown Soup Thing,
For a television pilot in 2010, Briones played one of three children of a single mother moonlighting as a drug kingpin in Beverly Hills.
In 2018, she appeared along with her father in an episode of .[
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In 2019, Briones was cast in as two sets of synthetic twins: Dahj and Soji, and Jana and Sutra.[ Cites casting.][ Cites characters. Jana is presented in a drawing during season one; she was killed prior to those events.] 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.[ "The a distinct look ... and I was like, 'let's just go for it with this one—she can have the long hair, she can have the eyes.' ... I definitely feel, as a theatre actor, that ... once you're in costume, and the lights are on, everything is happening, you naturally fall into the character. And I feel like that's exactly what happened with Sutra". Cites theatre actor, audition process, Sutra.] She made her debut as both Dahj and Soji during the season premiere in January 2020.[
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In his review of the series' debut episode, Entertainment Weeklys Darren Franich called its plot developments "shock tactics" and Dahj "vacant".
Briones confirmed on May 6, 2022, that Soji would not be returning for the series' third season.
In October, Briones was added to the cast of the Disney+ series Goosebumps, based on the Goosebumps by R. L. Stine. Briones plays Margot, a bookworm thought by her high-school classmates to be a snob.
Briones joined the cast of the medical drama The Pitt in 2024 as Dr. Trinity Santos, a forthright and overly confident Mestizo intern.
Theatre
Briones has performed in numerous stage musicals since childhood. She played Susan in a Los Angeles production of Miracle on 34th Street, in which Megan Briones appeared as her mother.[ Cites award/nominations, commercials. Cites Evita, move to New York.] In his review of Next to Normal in August 2016, Cary Ginell of BroadwayWorld wrote, "Briones gives a disquietingly effective, achingly nuanced portrayal" of her character, Natalie;[ Gray called Briones "the lovely, impressive newcomer" in her review the year before.] Erin Conley of OnStage Los Angeles praised Briones's "beautiful, crystal clear voice."
Briones joined her father when he moved back to New York in January 2018.[ She was cast in Hamilton following a seven-month audition process, becoming at age 19 the youngest person to join the first national touring company. Over the course of its one-year run, she played both Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds,][ Her performances brought praise from Judith Newmark of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: she "effectively plays Peggy Schuyler as a cupcake and Maria Reynolds as a flambé."][ Also cites understudy.] and was cast in Star Trek: Picard in April.[
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After production wrapped in Los Angeles on the series' first season, Briones returned to the stage. She appeared in AJ Rafael's Crazy Talented Asians, and #Hash(tag) America by Anthony Fedorov and Raye Zaragoza.
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.[ Jon Jon Briones and Daughter Isa Briones to Join Cast of Broadway's Hadestown]
Music
Briones has recorded several video duets with fellow Filipino-American performer AJ Rafael.[ Cites Filipino-American. Cites videos.] Their version of "Rewrite the Stars" from The Greatest Showman was released as a single.[
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For the Star Trek: Picard season one finale, "", Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" was set to play during Data's final scene as a bookend to his performance in . Composer Jeff Russo wrote a new arrangement for the episode, and series co-creator Alex Kurtzman suggested they ask Briones to perform the vocals.
Personal life
As of 2020, Briones lives in Los Angeles.[
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In July of that year, 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.
Activism
In April 2020, Briones joined her Star Trek: Picard castmates including Jonathan Frakes, Jeri Ryan and Brent Spiner in a video message of hope to viewers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2021, she participated in a video campaign addressing hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Upon getting cast on the The Pitt, Briones advocated for a change in her character's name to represent her Filipino heritage, reflecting the strong Filipino representation in the medical industry.
Acting credits
Film
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| 2008 | Brown Soup Thing | Cousin Isa | Feature film |
| 2010 | Takers | Sunday Welles | Feature film |
| 2013 | Lonely Boy | Mia | Feature film |
| 2016 | Carpool | Carmen | Short film |
Television
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| 2018 | | Elena Cunanan | Episode: "Creator/Destroyer"; also starring Jon Jon Briones |
| 2020 | The Ready Room | Herself | Web television aftershow: "S1 E9" |
| 2020–2022 | | Dahj/Soji/Jana/Sutra/Kore | 14 episodes |
| 2023 | Goosebumps | Margot | Main role; Season 1 (10 episodes) |
| 2025 | The Pitt | Dr. Trinity Santos | Main role |
Theatre
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| 2016 | Evita | Mistress/ensemble | Fred Kalvi Theatre, Cabrillo Music Theatre | August 14 - 23, 2016 |
| 2016–2017 | Next to Normal | Natalie | Pico Playhouse, Los Angeles | August 19 - October 8, 2016 |
| East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theatre, Los Angeles | May 11 - June 11, 2017 |
| 2018–2019 | Hamilton | Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds
u/s Eliza Hamilton | U.S. National Tour | March 2018 - March 2019 |
| 2022 | Grease | Betty Rizzo | Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center | July 8 - 24, 2022 |
| 2024 | Hadestown | Eurydice | Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway theatre | March 19 - June 30, 2024 |
| 2025 | All Nighter | Lizzy | MCC Theater, Off-Broadway | April 30 - May 18, 2025 |
Discography
Awards and nominations
| +Ovation Awards |
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| 2018 | Evita | Perón's Mistress | Featured Actress in a Musical | |
| Next to Normal (East West Players) | Natalie | Featured Actress in a Musical | |
| Next to Normal (Triage Productions; Standing Room Only Productions) | Natalie | Featured Actress in a Musical | |
Footnotes
Bibliography
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