Little Fires Everywhere -- "The Spark" Episode 101 -- The picture-perfect lives of the Richardson family are upended by the mysterious arrival of artist Mia Warren, and her daughter, Pearl, in Shaker Heights, OH, an idyllic town founded on the utopian principals of harmony and order. Egged on by her guilty conscious, do-gooder Elena rents to the mother-daughter duo and encourages her younger son Moody to befriend Pearl, irrevocably intertwining the fates of the two families. Lexie (Jade Pettyjohn), shown. (Photo by: Erin Simkin/Hulu)

Jade Pettyjohn can be seen as a series regular role in the limited series, Little Fires Everywhere starring Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and Rosemarie DeWitt on Hulu in March.

She completed a recurring role on HBO series Righteous Gemstones, in June, opposite Danny McBride, Walton Goggins and John Goodman. In the past year, she came out in Annapurna film DESTROYER opposite Nicole Kidman; Edward Zwick film TRIAL BY FIRE opposite Laura Dern and as the only newcomer to the cast of Deadwood: The Movie for HBO. She will soon be seen in SEBERG opposite Vince Vaughn and Kristen Stewart coming out later this year.

Television credits also include Amblin/Hulu pilot Kansas City, three seasons of Nickelodeon’s School of Rock, a recurring role on both TNT’s The Last Ship and Showtime’s United States of Tara. Other film credits include the lead role in festival indie darling GIRL FLU, THE BLACK GHIANDOLA opposite Johnny Depp, the American Girl movie MCKENNA SHOOTS FOR THE STARS, DAKOTA’S SUMMER, and short film PRODIGAL alongside Kenneth Branagh.

She’s popular, smart, bossy, and driven. She’s also determined to follow in her mother’s footsteps (Reese Witherspoon). She sees things in black and white and her biggest personal hardships have been not being allowed to get her bellybutton pierced and getting a Ford Explorer that was last years’ model. She has her entire future with her boyfriend, Brian, planned out. First Yale, then marriage, then settling down in Shaker just like her mother did… until her plans and sense of self are upended by a new family who moves to town.

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