Amalia Yoo

About

Amalia Emma Lola Yoo (born 2002) is an American television, film, and stage actress, best known for her roles as Leila Zimmer in the 2020 television drama Grand Army and as Raelynn Nix in the 2025 Broadway performance of John Proctor is the Villain.

Yoo was born in New York City to a Korean father and a Puerto Rican mother. Her parents, both teachers, frequently took her to Broadway theatre shows from a young age. She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, while also taking drama classes at Katie Cappiello’s studio GoodCapp Arts beginning in 2016.

Yoo played various roles in stage productions of Cappiello’s play Slut while a high school student: first the minor character Jane, and then later the starring role of Joey. After Cappiello began working with Netflix to create a television series inspired by Slut, she arranged for Yoo and some of her other students to audition for roles in the series, overcoming the reluctance of the casting directors as many of the students were not represented by talent agencies at the time. Yoo, who was only sixteen years old when the auditions were being held, did not audition for…