Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

India Eisley

British-born American actress (born 1993) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

India Eisley
Remove ads

India Eisley (born October 29, 1993) is an American actress. On television, she is best known for her roles as Ashley Juergens in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008–2013), Audrina in the Lifetime film My Sweet Audrina (2016), and Fauna Hodel in the TNT series I Am the Night (2019). Her films include Underworld: Awakening (2012), Kite (2014), Social Suicide (2015) and Look Away (2018).

Quick facts Born, Occupation ...
Remove ads

Early life

India Eisley was born on October 29, 1993,[1] the daughter of British actress Olivia Hussey (1951–2024) and American musician David Glen Eisley.[2][3] Her paternal grandfather was American actor Anthony Eisley (1925–2003), while her maternal grandfather was Argentinian tango singer Andrés Osuna (stage name Osvaldo Ribó, 1927–2015).[4] She has two older maternal half-brothers from her mother's prior marriages: Alexander, whose father was American actor Dean Paul Martin (1951–1987)[5] and Max, whose father is Japanese singer Akira Fuse.[citation needed]

Remove ads

Career

Summarize
Perspective

Eisley and her mother appeared together in the 2005 movie Headspace.[citation needed] After small roles in various independent films, Eisley gained a major role in 2008 in The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She played Ashley Juergens, younger sister of teen mother Amy Juergens.[citation needed]

In the 2012 film Underworld: Awakening, Eisley was cast as Eve, the hybrid daughter of Selene and Michael Corvin; Eisley was cast due to her strong resemblance to Selene's actress, Kate Beckinsale.[citation needed]

Eisley starred as Sawa in the 2014 action film Kite, opposite Samuel L. Jackson.[citation needed] In late 2014, she filmed Social Suicide (2015), a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, appearing with her real-life mother Hussey, who played Mrs. Coulson, with Eisley playing her daughter, Julia.[6]

In 2015, Eisley starred in the horror-thriller film The Curse of Sleeping Beauty as Briar Rose.[7] The same year, she was cast in the title role in the television film adaptation of the V. C. Andrews' book My Sweet Audrina for Lifetime,[8] which aired in 2016. In 2017, she starred in the Netflix original film Clinical.[9] In 2018, Eisley played the lead role of Maria / Airam in the psychological thriller film Look Away.[10][11]

Author Jessica Brody expressed a desire for Eisley to portray her character Seraphina in the film adaptation of her novel Unremembered. Hollywood casting director Michelle Levy was first to recommend Eisley for the role.[12][13]

In 2019, Eisley starred as Fauna Hodel in the six-part limited series I Am the Night,[14] which is based on Hodel's memoir, One Day She'll Darken. The series premiered on January 27, 2019, on TNT.[citation needed] In 2020, she played Tillie Gardner in the film Dead Reckoning.[15][16] In 2021, she played Lucy in the film Every Breath You Take.[17][18]

Remove ads

Personal life

Eisley enjoys cooking. As of February 2025, Eisley was dating actor Henry Thomas.[19]

Filmography

Film

More information Year, Title ...

Television

More information Year, Title ...
Remove ads

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads