Reina Hardesty

About

Reina Hardesty (born January 3, 1996) is an American actress. After playing supporting roles in the television series Greenhouse Academy, StartUp and The Flash, she landed lead breakthrough roles in Brockmire and Butterfly. She has also appeared in the films What Comes Around and It’s What’s Inside.

Reina Hardesty was born on January 3, 1996, to Greg Hardesty and Manako Ihaya, and is Japanese-American. When Hardesty was 13 years old, her father, at the time a reporter for The Orange County Register, wrote a column about receiving a phone service statement with over 14,000 texts recorded in one month, most of which were from Hardesty’s texting activity. Television and print outlets in the US and Europe ran stories on Hardesty and her texting behavior, including a segment aired on the syndicated news and entertainment program Inside Edition.

Hardesty was cast in the Netflix original series Greenhouse Academy in 2016, joining an ensemble cast of regulars. She followed the Greenhouse Academy role with the recurring role of Stella Namura on the Crackle series StartUp, and in 2020 joined the final season of the IFC series Brockmire in the role of…