Nickelodeon actress, Lidya Jewett has earned her breakthrough role as Gracie Walker in the show WITS Academy. She is also best known for movies like Hidden Figures (2016), Black Panther (2018) and The Darkest Minds (2018).
Besides her acting career, she is raised by her adoptive parents since the age of four. Let's get to know more about her journey from an ordinary girl to a celebrity along with the details of her personal life.
Lidya Jewett’s Bio and Career
Born in 2006, Lidya Jewett celebrates her birthday on 19 January. Currently, she is 12 years of age, and her birth sign is Capricorn as per wiki.
An Ethiopian native Lidya Jewett holds an American nationality and belongs to Afro-American ethnicity. She stands tall at the height of 4’ft 10’’inches.
Lidya with her acting skills at a small age has impressed the glamour industry. She has shown her performance in several television series and movies. She has even made her appearance in television advertisement including Disney Huffy Bikes, and SAG Chase Bank and many more on the list.
In 2015, Lidya starred in Nickelodeon’s WIT Academy as Gracie Walker. The same year she also appeared as a guest in the television series See Dad Run.
After that, in the year 2017, the actress got an opportunity to work in a new NBC drama “Good Girls’. In the movie, she is portraying the role of Sara who got diagnosed with kidney disease in the series.
The same year, she also essayed the role of Lina Annan in the movie ‘Wonder.’ She has not only appeared in the TV shows but is also a part of some hit movies Black Panther, Hidden Figures and the Wonder.
Talking about her net worth, Lidya is just in a starting phase of her career. She still has a long way to go in her career. By her eye captivating roles, she might have earned a whopping sum of money from her career, however, the exact details of her salary and net worth is not revealed yet.
Lidya Jewett’s Personal Life
A few years ago Lidya was an orphan in Ethiopia and was adopted from an orphan house by her Plam City family at the age of four.
Along with her parents, she also shares a loving bond with her three siblings named Mac, Connors and Isabelle Jewett. Lidya’s love towards her siblings can be seen in the photos posted on 11 April 2016 by Lidya through her Instagram.
Lidya with her siblings, picture posted on 11 April 2016 (Photo: Lidya's Instagram)
Recently on 27 February, Lidya has uploaded a photo of her mother where she captioned seven years ago she was an orphanage, and now she has got a new family.
