Emma Myers, from Enid Sinclair’s smile to Pip Fitz-Amobi’s verdict

At twenty-four she carries Wednesday’s brightest werewolf and Netflix’s next thriller lead — within twelve months, on the same platform. Six days from now, the second season of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder will test whether the second job is the one she will be remembered for.

The teenager who auditioned for Wednesday Addams was given the werewolf upstairs instead. The choice was canny: Enid Sinclair, with her colour-coded wardrobe and unembarrassed friendliness, was the structural opposite the title character needed, and the slot a steadier young actress could lock down for years. Three years later Emma Myers is the only Nevermore graduate Netflix has cast in a second flagship, and the second job sits with her name above the title.

She came out of Orlando, the second of four sisters in a household where both parents practiced law. The family schooled the children inside a cooperative; Myers has said the community a school normally supplies, she had to build through dance studios and local theater. Dance came first. Acting arrived at five, watching an older sister at auditions and announcing she could do the same, with the unanswerable seriousness of a small child who has just decided. The first paid credit followed at eight: a single episode of The Glades and a part in Letters to God, both shot near home.

Through her teens the credits accumulated without resolving into a career: a Lifetime thriller called Girl in the Basement, a short film, an ABC romantic comedy that closed after one season, a TV Christmas piece, an unreleased horror. Each role was the kind a working young actress fills while waiting for the audition that decides things.

That audition arrived in 2021, when she taped for the title role of Tim Burton’s reimagining of the Addams family. Casting came down to a decision between Jenna Ortega and a few other names; Myers was redirected to Enid Sinclair, the werewolf who shares the dormitory and supplies the warmth Wednesday refuses to. The series dropped on Netflix the following November and broke the platform’s English-language hours-watched record. The discourse that followed gave Myers more of an introduction than most leads receive. Enid became the character viewers told each other was the reason to keep going when Wednesday’s gloom turned into sustained punishment.

There was a trap in that reception. The role most likely to make a young actress’s career is also the role most likely to define it: the brightest scene partner on a viral hit becomes a fixed quantity, harder to recast as the protagonist. Casting departments read the chemistry, not the actor. Myers’s filmography since suggests the team around her saw the trap and moved deliberately against it. Within twelve months of Wednesday’s launch she opened opposite Jennifer Garner in Family Switch, a Netflix body-swap comedy that placed her alongside a Hollywood lead outside the Addams orbit; the same season she took a smaller role in Southern Gospel, a faith-circuit drama that read as tonal counter-programming. Neither was a career-builder on its own. They were the projects that proved the career was not Enid-shaped.

The actual proof arrived with A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. The British mystery, adapted by Poppy Cogan from Holly Jackson’s novel, ran first on BBC Three in 2024 before Netflix took it global. Myers played Pippa Fitz-Amobi, a high-school senior reopening a closed murder-suicide case in the small town that wants it forgotten. Pip is the engine of every scene. The role asked her to carry a six-hour show — to be the conscience, the suspicion, and the discomfort of a viewer being walked through inadequate evidence. The series was renewed within months. Jackson, who supplied the source novels, returned to co-write the second season. None of that happens unless the lead is doing the work.

The intervening months sharpened the case further. A Minecraft Movie put her opposite Jack Black and Jason Momoa in a video-game adaptation that ran a global theatrical campaign — Myers’s first big-studio feature with her name in the top tier of the call sheet — and earned her a Kids’ Choice award. Star Wars: Visions added voice work in Lucasfilm’s animated anthology. Wednesday’s second season, released in 2025, gave Enid the upgrade the writers had been holding back: in the finale she becomes a permanent Alpha werewolf, forced into a strength the show had previously kept implicit. The off-screen arc tracked the on-screen one with unusual precision.

What is publicly available about Myers’s private life is what she has confirmed. She lives modestly, talks about her sisters frequently in interviews, and presents at industry events as someone who would rather be reading a Holly Jackson novel than working a red carpet. She has said, more than once, that homeschooling left her unprepared for the small talk of premieres. There is no public partner. The version of Myers reading the part of the room she is in remains the most arresting thing in any of her interviews.

The next eighteen months will decide the shape of the next decade. Wednesday’s third season is filming in Ireland and Paris, with a return to Nevermore the writers have signalled will move Enid further into the front of the frame. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder returns on 27 May with the second Holly Jackson novel adapted across six episodes. The Angry Birds Movie 3 arrives in December with Myers in a leading voice role. Forbes listed her in the 2026 Hollywood 30 Under 30 — the kind of consensus signal the industry publishes when it has already decided. The case Myers makes for herself the rest of this year is whether she is the lead it is now telling her she is.