Emma Noelle Roberts (November 15, 1994), professionally known as Emma Dumont, is an American actress, model, and dancer. She is best known for her role as Melanie Segal in the ABC Family series, Bunheads.

Personal life [link]

Dumont was born in Seattle, Washington. She attended Washington Middle School and later attended James A. Garfield High School before leaving to pursue modeling. She also attended Orange County High School of the Arts in the Music and Theater Conservatory in Santa Ana, California.^[2]

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 and Joffrey Ballet School.

She began performing in community theater at age 6 with performances at Seattle Public Theatre and Seattle Musical Theatre among others.^[3] Her musical theater training includes four summers at 5th Avenue Theatre.

She also participates in robotics in FIRST Robotics For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology on several teams sponsored by NASA and JPL.^[4] Dumont also is a skilled violist and violinist having played violin from age 4. She has played with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras and more recently the Glendale Youth Orchestra.

Before becoming a cast member on the ABC Family show Bunheads, Emma attended Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies in Reseda, California. She studied there for a year and was the president of the Robotics Club

Career [link]

Her first film role was in True Adolescents in 2007 at age 12 (released 2009) alongside Melissa Leo and Mark Duplass. She later appeared in the movie Dear Lemon Lima in 2008 (released 2009).

In 2010, Dumont won the Ford VA Model Search contest and appeared in V Magazine and also worked fashion week in New York City that same year.^[5]

In 2011 Dumont was cast in a lead role in Academy Award winner Stephen Gaghan's NBC pilot METRO alongside Noah Emmerich and Jimmy Smits.

In early 2012, she appeared in the independent film Nobody Walks alongside Dylan McDermott, John Krasinski, Jane Levy, Olivia Thirlby, and Rosemarie DeWitt.^[6]

She was recently cast in the new ABC Family original series, Bunheads, starring Sutton Foster. She portrays Melanie, one of the main characters, who attends the dance academy run by the lead's mother-in-law.^[7]

Filmography [link]

References [link]

External links [link]

• Emma Dumont at the Internet Movie Database
• Emma Dumont on Twitter