Dylan Gelula

About

Dylan Nicole Gelula (born May 7, 1994) is an American actress who is best known for her role of Xanthippe on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as well as for her work in independent films. Gelula made her film debut as the lead actress in romantic drama film First Girl I Loved (2016) and has since acted in the films Flower (2017), Support the Girls (2018), Her Smell (2018), Shithouse (2020), Dream Scenario (2023), and Smile 2 (2024).

Gelula was born on May 7, 1994, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father is an Ashkenazi Jew, and she was raised in Reform Judaism. She attended Lower Merion High School and recalls having a difficult time in high school, having been “very lonely, but very comfortable being alone,” and showed up to school so infrequently that she was forced to either repeat her senior year or drop out. She ended up dropping out and moving to Los Angeles by herself at the age of seventeen.

Gelula began her acting career at the age of ten as an extra in the M. Night Shyamalan film Lady in the Water, which she later revealed neither she nor her parents ever viewed. Two years later, in the sixth grade, she found a manager. Before moving to Los Angeles…