Impressively landing her first role on “ER” when she was just 5 months old (viaTV Guide),Kiernan Shipkahas become a very familiar face on American television.
At just 6 years old (viaMTV), Shipka solidified her career in the industry when she played the role of Don and Betty Draper’s precocious daughter Sally (viaSlate) on AMC’s “Mad Men.”
Since then, Shipka has starred in “Feud: Bette and Joan,” “Don’t Trust The B in Apartment 23,” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (viaIMDb), eventually leading to her starring role as Sabrina Spellman in “The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina” (viaNetflix).
That spellbinding show sadly came to an end after four seasons (viaScreen Rant), but Shipka has since announced that she’ll be returning to the role for an episode of “Riverdale” (viaInstagram).
Aside from her increasingly successful small-screen presence, Shipka has lent her voice to a variety of cartoon characters - including a major character in a popular Nickelodeon series.
The actress voiced a major character in a Studio Ghibli film
Kiernan Shipka’s first foray into voice acting came with a pretty major role in Nickelodeon’s animated series “The Legend of Korra” (viaIMDb).
A sequel to the immensely successful “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” Shipka played the supporting role of Jinora as well as other voices throughout the series (viaYouTube).
Shipka voiced Jinora throughout the series' four-year run and also reprised her role in a video game (viaPlatinum Games).
At the same time, Shipka also provided the voice to a character on the Disney Junior show “Sofia the First” as Oona the mermaid (viaYouTube).
Soon after her roles as Jinora and Oona, Shipka lent her voice to Marnie in the English dub of “When Marnie Was There,” a Studio Ghibli film based on the 1967 British novel by same name (via theGuardian).
The actress is also the voice behind Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman in the “Marvel Avengers Academy” video game and has had small roles in an episodes of “American Dad!,” “Family Guy,” and “Neo Yokio.”
