Annie Q. Riegel

American actress Annie Q. Riegel was born in Brooklyn, New York, and spent part of her childhood in Beijing, raised by her Siberian grandmother and Chinese grandfather. She grew up between Beijing and Staten Island, speaking both Mandarin Chinese and English at home. She is known for playing Christine on The Leftovers, Winnie on Death and Other Details, and Juliette Tan on Kung Fu. She also starred as Erica Yang in the School Spirit installment of the Hulu and Blumhouse anthology series Into the Dark.

Annie's path to acting was not a straight line. She initially studied Russian and robotics in an engineering program at Staten Island Technical High School, but discovered her joy in acting and transferred to LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Shortly after graduating, she began her career on stage, playing the title role in the revival of Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang's Golden Child at the Signature Theatre. She went on to make history as the first Asian American lead and final girl in Blumhouse production history. She is married to filmmaker and producer Chris Robert Riegel.