Liv Hewson

About

Liv Hewson is an Australian actor and playwright. They starred as Abby Hammond in the Netflix series Santa Clarita Diet from 2017 to 2019, and has portrayed Van Palmer in Yellowjackets since 2021.

Liv Hewson was born around 1996 in Canberra. one of four children, with three brothers. Their mother, Angela, is a public servant and their father, Tony, is a psychologist. They grew up in the suburb of Hughes and attended Alfred Deakin High School and Canberra College.
Hewson began acting as part of the Canberra Youth Theatre. Growing up, the family watched a lot of American television shows, such as The Simpsons and Futurama, which Hewson later said made it easy to act with an American accent.

Hewson has written plays as well as acted in several TV series.
Hewson’s play, Bona Mors, was produced by the Canberra Youth Theatre (CYT) in 2013 as part of Triptych — A Trilogy of New Works alongside Lachlan Philpott’s Run! Rihanna! Run! and Jessica Bellamy’s Fight or Flight. The three works were published as an anthology by Currency Press. They had been a member of CYT for three years in the lead-up to the production. Their written work includes “lots…