Lyric Ross
An image from This Is Us, one of the productions that also features Lyric Ross.
Lyric Ross

Lyric Ross

September 30, 2003 — Homewood, Illinois, USA

Lyric Ross is an American actress. She is known for her role as Deja Pearson in the NBC drama series This Is Us.

Ross, raised in Homewood, Illinois, is the daughter of Brandi Smith and Stephen Ross and granddaughter of Margaret Smith. She started acting when she was five years old, appearing in commercials and guest-starring in Chicago Fire and Sirens. In 2017, she performed in a recurring role as Deja Pearson on season 2 of This Is Us while in the eighth grade at James Hart School in Homewood, Illinois. On August 27, 2018, NBC announced that Ross had been promoted to a series regular onwards from season 3. She and the rest of the show's cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2018.

She is cast in the upcoming television series Ironheart.

In 2022 she dubbed in the stop-motion film Wendell & Wild as Katherine "Kat" Koniqua Elliot.

Ross serves as a celebrity ambassador for Orphan Myth.

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This Is Us

This Is Us

2016

Wendell & Wild

Wendell & Wild

2022

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

2019

Rogers Park

Rogers Park

2017

The Class

The Class

2022