Skyler Samuels

Skyler Samuels is an American actress born on April 14, 1994. She is best known for her roles in several television series, including Wizards of Waverly Place, The Gates, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Scream Queens, and The Gifted.

Samuels was born in Los Angeles to Kathy, a producer for unscripted series, and Scott, a U.S. marshal. She grew up in a family that includes three brothers and one sister.

Early in her acting career, Samuels appeared on television as the child celebrity Ashley Blake in an episode of Drake & Josh, and she held a recurring role as Gertrude "Gigi" Hollingsworth on the Disney Channel series Wizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently transitioned into film with roles in The Stepfather (2009) and Furry Vengeance (2010).

Samuels went on to secure starring roles on network television. She played Andie Bates in the ABC series The Gates and starred as the title character, Chloe, in the ABC Family series The Nine Lives of Chloe King. She later appeared in the fourth season of the FX horror series American Horror Story in the recurring role of Bonnie Lipton.

In 2015, Samuels co-starred alongside Mae Whitman and Bella Thorne in the high school comedy feature film The DUFF. That same year, she played a leading role in the first season of the Fox horror comedy series Scream Queens. She later portrayed the three Frost sisters, also known as the Stepford Cuckoos, in a recurring role on the X-Men-based Fox television series The Gifted. Her film work also includes appearing as Jess in Meg 2: The Trench.

Alongside her acting projects, Samuels pursued higher education at Stanford University, where she studied marketing and intellectual property and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. After taking a quarter off to film Scream Queens, she returned to her studies in January 2016 and graduated in June 2016.

In her personal life, Samuels began dating actor Lucas Till around 2017 to 2018. In March 2024, she stated that they had married and were living in Till's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. She announced the birth of their first child later in May 2024, followed by an announcement in December 2025 that they were expecting their second child.