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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actress, producer, and entrepreneur Emma Roberts for representation.
Roberts has built a tv profession spanning comedy, drama, and genre series. Her longstanding collaboration pinch Ryan Murphy includes performances crossed aggregate installments of American Horror Story, including Coven, Freak Show, Apocalypse, 1984, and Delicate. She besides led Murphy’s Scream Queens, nan bid that ran for 2 seasons connected Fox. She is group to return for nan upcoming thirteenth installment of FX’s American Horror Story alongside galore of nan series’ returning formed members. Roberts first roseate to prominence arsenic nan prima of Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous.
On nan movie side, Roberts has appeared successful a wide scope of projects, including We’re nan Millers, Nerve, Palo Alto, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, and Nancy Drew. She has besides had respective streaming hits, including Holidate astatine Netflix, Space Cadet and About Fate astatine Amazon, and Maybe I Do astatine Hulu. She will adjacent beryllium seen successful nan Mark Williams-directed movie Hal and The Technique, from head Brian McGreevy.
Roberts continues to grow her scope some successful beforehand of and down nan camera done her accumulation company, Belletrist. The shingle has emerged arsenic a root of literate adaptations and original IP, producing nan critically acclaimed deed series Tell Me Lies, which precocious concluded its 3rd and last season, and nan series First Kill at Netflix.
The company’s increasing slate besides includes a straight-to-series bid for Calabasas at Netflix, from Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen. The bid is inspired by nan book If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now by Via Bleidner. Also successful nan useful is an adjustment of Candace Bushnell’s book One Fifth Avenue astatine Hulu. The task is simply a TV reimagining of nan film Bride Wars for Peacock, successful which Roberts is besides attached to star. For film, Belletrist is down a characteristic adjustment of nan Rebecca Serle novel Expiration Dates at Amazon/MGM, pinch Roberts group to star.
It was announced successful December that Belletrist struck a first-look woody pinch Blink49 Studios to create and nutrient scripted tv projects based astir Belletrist’s literary-focused strategy.
Roberts continues to beryllium represented by Sweeney Entertainment, Shelter PR and lawyer JR McGinnis.
