Amira Lumbly

Amira Lumbly is an American actress, originally from Miami, Florida, who has booked roles on CBS' "The Paul Reiser Show", Yahoo! "Sketchy" webseries and ABC's "Pretty Little Liars".Amira has studied the Meisner technique at Playhouse West, as well as the techniques of acting teacher Eric Morris and coached with instructors from Howard Fine Studios. She's also learned to improv at The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, MN and Monkey Butler Improv in Los Angeles, CA.At a svelte 5'8", she has worked as an agency represented model since she was 15 in Miami, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. She has done runway and commercial print modeling in all three markets. Coming from a family of performing artists, she was homeschooled by her mother from kindergarten to eighth grade and moved to West Africa with her family for a few years. There, she learned to speak some Arabic and French. Amira finished high school in Minneapolis, MN and went on to earn a B.A. in PR and advertising at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. While in college, she interned at Baron Entertainment, Untitled Entertainment and Overbrook Entertainment to gain a better understanding of her industry as a whole.Residing in Los Angeles, she enjoys hiking, watching new and old films, camping, bellydancing, karaoke, running and checking out new restaurants in her spare time. Amira Lumbly strives to create an enduring career through which the types of stories that affect positive change in the world are told. Show less «