Emma Dumont (born November 15, 1994 as Emma Noelle Roberts), is an American actress, model, and dancer. She is best known for her role as Melanie Segal in the ABC Family series, Bunheads. In 2015, Dumont landed a regular role on the NBC historical-drama series Aquarius as Emma Karn.

Biography

Dumont was born in Seattle, Washington. She attended Washington Middle School and later attended James A. Garfield High School before enrolling in online education in order to pursue modeling and acting. She also attended Orange County High School of the Arts in the Music and Theater Conservatory in Santa Ana, California.

She began her ballet training at age 3 and has studied at Pacific Northwest Ballet School, Cornish College of the Arts and Spectrum Dance Theatre School (The Academy - pre-professional program) with summers at American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet School and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, Russia.

She began performing in community theater at age 6 with performances at Seattle Public Theatre and Seattle Musical Theatre among others. Her musical theater training includes four summers at 5th Avenue Theatre. Dumont also is a skilled violist and violinist having played violin from age 4. She has played with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras and most recently the Glendale Youth Orchestra.

She also participates in FIRST Robotics on a team sponsored by NASA and JPL and Walt Disney Imagineering.

Since age 15 Dumont has been an avid roller derby skater and is currently in the Los Angeles Derby Dolls training program - Fresh Meat. Dumont, roller derby and LADD skaters were featured in a 2013 episode of the ABC Family show Bunheads.