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Ainsley Seiger
American actress (born 1998) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ainsley Cameron Seiger (born September 4, 1998) is an American actress who appeared as a series regular on Law & Order: Organized Crime as Jet Slootmaekers.[1][2]
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Early life
Seiger is from Cary, North Carolina.[2][3] Seiger's mother is an opera singer and voice coach, and her father is a jeweler and goldsmith.[2]
Seiger attended Apex High School.[4] While there, she played Wednesday in the school's production of The Addams Family, Cosette in Les Misérables, and Nikki in Curtains the Musical.[4] In July 2016, she was selected as a Triangle Rising Stars by the Durham Performing Arts Center.[4] In addition to being a qualifying event for the National High School Musical Theatre Awards, winners of the Triangle Rising Stars received a $1,000 scholarship and spent a week in New York City performing at Minskoff Theatre, working with Broadway professionals, and representing the Triangle at the Jimmy Awards.[4][5]
Seiger then attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, graduating in 2020.[3][6][2]
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Career
On stage
While still in college, Seiger played Wendla in a production of Spring Awakening.[7][8]
In 2018, Seiger performed in Virginia Theater Festival productions of A Chorus Line and The Cocoanuts.[9] She began working with the creative team of the festival when she was fourteen.[10]
Seiger played the lead role in Violet at the PlayMakers Summer Youth Conservatory in July 2021.[4][11][12]
In 2023, during the SAG-AFTRA strike, Seiger played Sally Bowles in a Virginia Theatre Festival production of Cabaret.[9][13]
On screen
Seiger's first screen role was in 2019 for the short film American Waste.[14] She was also in the short film Bernstein’s MASS: An Artist’s Call for Peace.[15]
In February 2021, Seiger landed her first big Hollywood gig when she became a regular on NBC's Law & Order: Organized Crime, playing the role of hacker Jet Slootmaekers.[15][3] Because of COVID, she was cast for the role by submitting a recording.[16] A week later, she was cast and had two days to move to New York for shooting.[16] This was her first television credit.[17][15]
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Personal life
Seiger uses any pronouns (she/they/he),[18] and is bisexual.[19]
Filmography
Film
Television
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References
External links
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