Bianca Lawson

Bianca Lawson is an American actress who played Emily Bennett on The Vampire Diaries. She's mainly known for her roles on TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bones. Bianca appeared on MTV'S series Teen Wolf and Freeform's drama TV series Pretty Little Liars and played in the Lifetime series Witches of East End.
==Biography==
Bianca Lawson was born on March 20, 1979, in Los Angeles, California. She started acting at the age of nine. She has appeared in television commercials for Barbie and Revlon and in several television shows. On Buffy the Vampire Slayer she portrayed Kendra Young, another Vampire Slayer who is activated as a result of the temporary death of the title character, Buffy Summers. She appeared in 4 episodes (three alive, one as a corpse). But Kendra was killed off in Part One of the season 2 finale, Becoming.
She 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. She has had roles in Saved by the Bell: The New Class and films such as Save the Last Dance and Breakin' All the Rules.
In December 2009, Lawson was cast as Maya St. Germain in the TV series Pretty Little Liars based on the book series by Sara Shepard.
She is a daughter of Denise (née Gordy) and Richard Lawson, an actor.
==Filmography==
Year 	Title 	Type 	Role
2016 	Queen Sugar 	TV Series 	Darla
2015 	Rogue 	TV Series 	Talia Freeman / Talia
2015 	Chicago P.D. 	TV Series 	Kylie Rosales
2014 	Witches of East End 	TV Series 	Eva Gardiner / Selina / Eva Callero
2012-2014	Teen Wolf 	TV Series 	Marin Morrell
2009-2014	The Vampire Diaries 	TV Series 	Emily Bennett
2014 	House of Secrets 	TV Movie 	Julie
2012 	Broke Girls 	TV Series 	Stacy
2012 	All About Christmas Eve 	TV Movie 	Lila
2012 	Beauty and the Beast 	TV Series 	Lafferty
2010-2012	Pretty Little Liars 	TV Series 	Maya St. Germain
2011 	Heavenly 	TV Movie 	Sasha Grant
2011 	Star Wars: The Old Republic 	Video Game	Additional Voices (voice)
2011 	American Horror Story 	TV Series 	Abby
2010 	Nikita 	TV Series 	Emily Robinson
2009 	Divas 	 	Brooke
2009 	The Secret Life of the American Teenager	TV Series 	Shawna
2009 	Bones 	TV Series 	Albie
2008 	The Cleaner 	TV Series 	Jeannie
2007 	Supergator 	Video 	Carla Masters
2006 	Pledge This! 	 	Monique
2006 	Broken 	 	Mia
2005 	Flip the Script 	 	Angel
2004 	Fearless 	TV Movie 	Harmony Kaye
2004 	The Pavilion 	 	Mary
2004 	Breakin' All the Rules 	 	Helen Sharp
2004 	The Big House 	TV Series 	Angel
2004 	Dead & Breakfast 	 	Kate
2004 	The Division 	TV Series 	Marilynn Resiser
2002 	Haunted 	TV Series 	Brandi Combs
2002 	For the People 	TV Series 	Asia Portman
2001 	Feast of All Saints 	TV Movie 	Anna Bella Monroe
2001 	Bones 	 	Cynthia
2001 	Strong Medicine 	TV Series 	Esperanza Maldonaldo
2001 	Save the Last Dance 	 	Nikki
2000 	Big Monster on Campus 	 	Darien Stompanato
1999-2000	Dawson's Creek 	TV Series 	Nikki Green
1997-1999	Smart Guy 	TV Series 	Tracy / Jill
1997-1998	Buffy the Vampire Slayer 	TV Series 	Kendra
1998 	The Steve Harvey Show 	TV Series 	Rosalind
1998 	Primary Colors 	 	Loretta
1998 	Twice the Fear 	Video 	Girlfriend
1998 	Silk Stalkings 	TV Series 	Renee
1998 	The Temptations 	TV Series 	Diana Ross
1997 	The Parent 'Hood 	TV Series 	Jasmine
1996-1997	Goode Behavior 	TV Series 	Bianca Goode
1995-1996	Sister, Sister 	TV Series 	Rhonda Coley
1995 	In the House 	TV Series 	Rachel
1995 	Me and the Boys 	TV Series 	Girl
1993-1994	Saved by the Bell: The New Class 	TV Series 	Megan Jones
1994 	What'z up? 	TV Series 	Co-host
1994 	My So-Called Life 	TV Series 	Third Bathroom Girl
==Appearances==
;Season One
*162 Candles
*History Repeating
*Children of the Damned
*Blood Brothers
;Season Two
*As I Lay Dying (voice)
;Season Five
*500 Years of Solitude
==Trivia==
* In the series "Nikita" her character is also named Emily and in "Pretty Little Liars" she played a girl who dated Emily (played by Shay Mitchell), who was also courted by Claire Holt's character, Samara Cook.
* Her father, Richard Lawson, is now married to Tina Knowles, mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, making her a step-sister of these two.
* She made a special appearance in 500 Years of Solitude (100th episode of The Vampire Diaries), along with David Anders, Sara Canning, Matt Davis, Kayla Ewell, Daniel Gillies, Claire Holt, and Joseph Morgan.
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==References==
==External links==
*IMDb
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