Emmy Raver-Lampman

Emmy Raver-Lampman (born Emily Christine Raver Lampman, September 5, 1988)[1][2][3] is an American actress and singer. She began her career working in musical theater, and has performed in various Broadway and national touring productions such as Hair, Jekyll & Hyde, Wicked, and Hamilton. She has played Allison Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy since 2019.

Raver-Lampman was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia.[4] She was adopted as a newborn;[5] her mother Sharon is a professor at Old Dominion University,[3][6] while her father Greg is a writer and teacher.[7][8] She was raised an only child, has traveled widely (over 50 countries) and lived in the Czech Republic, Ukraine and India when she was young due to her mother’s work.[9] She has a half-sister, who is her junior by twenty years.[10]

She attended a performing arts high school, Governor’s School for the Arts, as well as Maury High in Norfolk.[11] She then attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She began working as a professional actress while in school and began studying remotely for her junior year. She landed a part in a production of Hair, and she left her course temporarily with just a semester left before graduation, but eventually returned to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater in 2012.