Ariana Greenblatt

Ariana Greenblatt (born August 27, 2007) is an American actor who has spent more than half her life on professional sets, and who has quietly become one of the most reliably cast young performers of her generation. She specializes in a particular register: the teenager who sees through the room. Sasha in Barbie, Koa in 65, Christy in Fear Street: Prom Queen, and June in Now You See Me: Now You Don’t all share a flat, unimpressed intelligence that reads as genuine rather than written, which is harder to fake than it looks.

Her path ran the reverse of the usual one. She started on Disney Channel as Daphne Diaz in Stuck in the Middle, the youngest of the Diaz siblings and the household chaos agent, then moved into studio film work before she was old enough to drive. A brief appearance as young Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War put her inside the biggest franchise on earth at ten. By 2023 she had three releases in a single year: the survival thriller 65 opposite Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and a turn as young Ahsoka Tano on the Disney+ series Ahsoka. Barbie did the heavy lifting, converting a working child actor into a name, and earning her a Critics Choice nomination plus a share of the film’s Screen Actors Guild ensemble nod.

What has happened since is more interesting than a straight ascent. Borderlands arrived in 2024 as a career-scaling swing and landed as one of the year’s most public commercial failures. Fear Street: Prom Queen put her in a slasher ensemble that critics largely dismissed. Then Now You See Me: Now You Don’t reversed the trend, topping the November 2025 box office and installing her, alongside Justice Smith and Dominic Sessa, as the designated next generation of a franchise Lionsgate has already greenlit again. Her 2026 slate reads like a deliberate correction: four independent features, an Anne Hathaway production, a Billy Bob Thornton two-hander, and an Amazon MGM romantic comedy in which she carries the lead.

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Early Life & Education

Greenblatt was born in New York City in August 2007 and raised between there and Parkland, Florida. The performing gene is on both sides. Her father, Shon Greenblatt, is an actor; her paternal grandparents, Kenneth and Sandra Greenblatt, are Broadway producers with Tony Awards on the shelf. Her mother, Solimar “Soli” Colón, is a former professional ballerina from Puerto Rico. Greenblatt has one older brother, Gavin. Dance came before acting, and she has described herself as having been a dancer essentially from birth, which shows up later in the physical precision of the roles that ask for it.

The entry point was almost accidental. On a family trip to Los Angeles when she was six, her manager sent her to what were described to her as meetings. They were auditions. She booked three of them, including a guest spot on Disney Channel’s Liv and Maddie, and told Elle years later that at that age she still assumed everything she watched on screen was real life. A small part on Nickelodeon’s Legendary Dudas followed in 2016. The same year, she was cast as a series regular on Stuck in the Middle, playing Daphne, the youngest and most disruptive of Jenna Ortega’s onscreen siblings, a role she held through 2018.

Formal training was less drama school than practical correction. She has spoken about a thick New York accent that faded after the move west, and about hours of speech classes to fix an inability to pronounce her R’s, a detail she still counts as a small victory every time a word with one comes out clean. Education ran alongside the work rather than instead of it: she was filming Barbie while getting through high school in Los Angeles, and she has been open about the awkwardness of that split, including a stretch of high school in which finding actual friends was harder than booking studio films.

Career Highlights and Milestones

The Disney Channel years gave Greenblatt reps rather than range. Stuck in the Middle ran three seasons and taught her sitcom rhythm, timing, and how to hold a scene against six other people. What it did not do was suggest what came next. Her feature debut arrived in 2017 with A Bad Moms Christmas, a small part in a large adult comedy, and in 2018 she turned up as young Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War, a role of perhaps two minutes that put her inside a film that grossed north of two billion dollars. Studio voice work filled the interval: young Velma in Scoob!, Tabitha across The Boss Baby: Family Business and its Netflix continuation The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib. She also took the young Nina role in Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights and played opposite Bryan Cranston in The One and Only Ivan.

Then came 2023, the year that changed the size of the offers. 65 put her opposite Adam Driver as Koa, a child who shares no language with the adult trying to keep her alive, which meant carrying long stretches of screen time on reaction alone. It was a modest performer commercially and got mixed reviews, but it demonstrated she could hold a two-hander with a serious lead. Barbie followed in July and became the defining credit. As Sasha, the daughter of America Ferrera’s Gloria, she delivers the film’s most quoted takedown of Barbie herself and then anchors the mother-daughter reconciliation that gives the movie its emotional spine. The film crossed 1.4 billion dollars worldwide, and Greenblatt drew a Critics Choice nomination for Best Young Actor/Actress plus a share of the SAG ensemble nomination. Regional critics groups in Las Vegas, Washington, Seattle, and Nashville added youth-performance citations. That September she also appeared as young Ahsoka Tano in an episode of Ahsoka, giving her a foothold in a third major franchise.

The next swing missed, and it missed loudly. Borderlands, Eli Roth’s adaptation of the Gearbox shooter, cast Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, the demolitions-obsessed girl the plot organizes itself around. It opened in August 2024 to a 10 percent critical score and grossed roughly 33 million dollars worldwide against a budget reported between 110 and 120 million, one of the year’s most conspicuous write-offs. Lionsgate’s chief executive publicly conceded the film had gone wrong on essentially every axis. Greenblatt drew a Golden Raspberry nomination shared with the entire principal cast, which says more about the film’s reception than about any individual performance in it. Fear Street: Prom Queen, released on Netflix in May 2025 with Greenblatt as the rebellious sixth prom-queen candidate Christy Renault, was likewise dismissed by most critics, though it gave her a first credit in horror, a genre she has said she wanted.

Now You See Me: Now You Don’t corrected the trajectory in November 2025. Greenblatt plays June, a pickpocket and lockpick recruited alongside Justice Smith’s Charlie and Dominic Sessa’s Bosco into a heist run by the original Four Horsemen. The film opened at number one with 21.3 million dollars domestically, beating tracking and outrunning The Running Man, and finished with roughly 244 to 246 million dollars worldwide against a reported 90 million budget. Reviews were mixed, though several noted that the younger trio carried the handoff more convincingly than most legacy sequels manage. Lionsgate had already greenlit a fourth installment in April 2025, with Ruben Fleischer returning, which positions Greenblatt inside a franchise rather than adjacent to one. Her 2026 bookings point somewhere else entirely: Somedays opposite Billy Bob Thornton, Rubber Hut for first-time director Hanna Gray Organschi, Little Five from Anne Hathaway’s Somewhere Pictures, and the Amazon MGM romantic comedy Egg Baby, her first outright lead in a studio-backed feature.

Selected film and TV highlights

• Liv and Maddie (2015)
• Stuck in the Middle (2016–2018)
• A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
• Scoob! (2020)
• The One and Only Ivan (2020)
• Love and Monsters (2020)
• In the Heights (2021)
• The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
• 65 (2023)
• Barbie (2023)
• Ahsoka (2023)
• Borderlands (2024)
• Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)
• Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025)

Major recognition

• Rising Star of the Year at the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards, presented April 11, 2024 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
• Critics Choice Movie Award nomination for Best Young Actor/Actress for Barbie
• Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, shared with the Barbie ensemble
• Youth-performance nominations from the Las Vegas Film Critics Society, the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association, the Seattle Film Critics Society, and the Music City Film Critics Association for Barbie
• Hollywood Music in Media Award nomination in 2021 for Best Original Song in an Animated Film, for her performance of “Together We Stand” from The Boss Baby: Family Business
• Golden Raspberry nomination for Worst Screen Combo for Borderlands, shared across the principal cast

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NOTE: In addition to any official accounts listed above, many fan-run pages and clip accounts exist across platforms. These are not confirmed to be affiliated with Ariana Greenblatt. Links and usernames can change at any time.

Trivia & Lesser-Known Facts

• The Greenblatt household marks a booking by redecorating a room. When she landed Barbie, she came home from school to find the place done up in pink, a Barbie cake on the counter, and Aqua playing.
• She could not pronounce her R’s as a child and went through hours of speech classes to fix it. She has said she still registers a small win every time a word with an R comes out clean.
• Her thick New York accent disappeared after the family moved west, to the point that most people who meet her now have no idea it was ever there.
• Now You See Me: Now You Don’t shot in Budapest, where she and co-star Dominic Sessa ended up living next door to each other for the duration.
• Director Ruben Fleischer cast her height into the part: at five foot one, she was a natural fit for a pickpocket who works below eye level, and she has joked about being, in his phrasing, vertically challenged.
• She was a dancer before she was an actor, and competed on the first season of Dancing with the Stars: Juniors in 2018.

Quotes

“I will forever be indebted to Barbie.”

– Ariana Greenblatt, Who What Wear (2024)

“She is a very layered girl.”

– Ariana Greenblatt on playing Sasha, The Hollywood Reporter (July 2023)

“I have felt like an adult for a while.”

– Ariana Greenblatt, Bustle (August 2024)

“My character is the protector of these two.”

– Ariana Greenblatt on June and the new Horsemen, ScreenRant (May 2025)

“I never thought of it as a job.”

– Ariana Greenblatt on the shift in how she sees her career, Cosmopolitan (2026)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: How old is Ariana Greenblatt?
A: She was born on August 27, 2007, which makes her 18 as of August 2026. She turns 19 on August 27, 2026.

Q: What is Ariana Greenblatt best known for?
A: Playing Sasha in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023). Before that she was Daphne Diaz on Disney Channel’s Stuck in the Middle and young Gamora in Avengers: Infinity War. More recently she plays June in Now You See Me: Now You Don’t.

Q: Has Ariana Greenblatt won an Oscar?
A: No. She has not been nominated for an Academy Award. Her Barbie work brought a Critics Choice nomination and a share of the film’s Screen Actors Guild ensemble nomination, and she received the Rising Star of the Year award at CinemaCon’s Big Screen Achievement Awards in 2024. She attended the Oscars for the first time in March 2026 as a guest.

Q: Where is Ariana Greenblatt from?
A: She was born in New York City and grew up between New York and Parkland, Florida, before the family relocated to Los Angeles, where she is now based.

Q: Is Ariana Greenblatt married?
A: No. She has not publicly confirmed a relationship and is reported to be single.

Q: Does Ariana Greenblatt have official social media?
A: Instagram is the only account confirmed as hers. She is not currently active on X, and a TikTok account she previously ran appears to have been removed. Any other account using her name should be treated as unverified.

Upcoming Projects

• Egg Baby (TBA) – Amazon MGM romantic comedy directed by Natalia Anderson from a script by Sawyer Perry, with Greenblatt in the lead as an artist forced to co-parent a health-class egg with a quarterback played by Kingston Rumi Southwick. Arthur Conti joined the cast in August 2026; his role has not been disclosed. Set for a worldwide Prime Video release, with no date announced. Treat as subject to change until officially confirmed.
• Rubber Hut (TBA) – Debut feature from writer-director Hanna Gray Organschi, with Grace Van Patten leading and Emmy Rossum, Michael Imperioli, and Rosemarie DeWitt also cast. Production was reported underway in Rhode Island in June 2026. Character details are being withheld.
• Little Five (TBA) – Sports drama from Anne Hathaway’s Somewhere Pictures and Pigasus Pictures, directed by Ian Samuels, co-starring Rain Spencer. Set at Indiana University in the early 1980s and built around the Little 500 bicycle race. Reported in July 2026; production timing has not been announced.
• Somedays (TBA) – Writer-director Brian Klugman’s feature with Billy Bob Thornton, reported in January 2026, about a terminally ill delivery driver and the teenage girl he takes in. Financing was announced through Tucker Tooley Entertainment; no production or release timing has been confirmed.
• Now You See Me 4 (TBA) – Greenlit by Lionsgate in April 2025 with Ruben Fleischer returning to direct. The younger Horsemen are established as series regulars by the end of the third film, so a return is expected rather than confirmed. Producers have described the next installment as a reset, and timing can shift, particularly around cast availability.

Interviews & Features

• The Hollywood Reporter, “How ‘Barbie’ Star Ariana Greenblatt Manifested Being in Summer Blockbuster” (2023), the release-week profile, and the source of her account of building a dream-team list that included Margot Robbie.
• Who What Wear, “Barbie and Beyond: Ariana Greenblatt Is Just Getting Started” (2024), a cover feature in which she describes Barbie as the set where she learned how a film gets built, and starts talking about writing, producing, and directing.
• Bustle, “Ariana Greenblatt Talks ‘Borderlands,’ ‘Barbie,’ & Celebrity Crushes” (2024), the Borderlands press-cycle interview, notable for her candor about her own contrarian streak and how it feeds the roles she picks.
• ScreenRant, “Now You See Me 3 Stars Break Down The New Horsemen’s Personalities & Connection To Magic” (2025), a joint cast conversation where she lays out June’s skill set and her place in the trio.
• Hollywood Authentic, “Ariana Greenblatt” (2025), a mid-2025 profile that catches her between the Fear Street and Now You See Me releases.

Public Appearances & Festivals

• CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards (April 11, 2024): Greenblatt accepted the Rising Star of the Year award in Las Vegas at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, on a night that also honored Amy Poehler, Lupita Nyong’o, and Shawn Levy.
• 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards (February 24, 2024): She attended in Los Angeles at the Shrine Auditorium as part of the Barbie ensemble nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast.
• 78th Cannes Film Festival (May 2025): Her festival debut in Cannes, walking the Dossier 137 carpet on May 15 and the Eddington premiere the following night.
• Now You See Me: Now You Don’t premieres (November 2025): The cast gathered in New York at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers on November 10, then in Amsterdam for the world premiere at the Harbour Club on November 11, three days ahead of the U.S. release.
• 98th Academy Awards (March 15, 2026): Her first Oscars, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, in an archival ivory John Galliano gown that drove most of the next morning’s red-carpet coverage.