Ruby Jerins is an American actress best known for playing Grace Peyton for seven seasons in the

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series '' Nurse Jackie.'' She started out playing guest star parts on NBC’s '' Law & Order: SVU'' and ''

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,'' and then was a recurring character in the ABC series ''

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.'' She played the daughter of Kevin Bacon in the

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film ''

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'', and when she was 8, Martin Scorsese cast her opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Michelle Williams in ''

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''. She then played Caroline Hawkins in the 2010 film ''

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'' opposite

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, Emilie de Ravin, and

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. After that she booked the highly coveted role of Melanie in '' Louder Than Bombs'', a film by Joachim Trier that was in the main competition at Cannes in 2015. She can be seen in "BLKBX", a music video filmed in several parts featuring Grace Gaustad that promotes self empowerment and healing above bullying for young women. Jerins studied acting at LaGuardia High School of the Arts in New York City, and went to college at Tulane University.

Life and career

Jerins is the daughter of the artist Edgar Jerins and actress Alana Jerins, and the older sister of

Sterling Jerins Sterling Jerins is an American actress known for playing Lily Bowers on the NBC series ''Deception'', Constance Lane in ''World War Z'', Judy Warren in ''The Conjuring'', ''The Conjuring 2'' and '' The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It'', and Li ...

, an actress who appeared in ''

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''. Jerins made her acting debut in the film ''The Wedding'' in 2001, alongside Jaid Barrymore and Stephen C. Bradbury, playing the flower girl. Jerins has also guest starred in television series such as ''

'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' As the World Turns'', ''

'', and '' Saturday Night Live''. She also had a main role in '' Nurse Jackie''. In 2010, Jerins played one of the main characters in the film ''

'', alongside

and Emilie De Ravin.

Filmography

Awards

* Recanati-Kaplan Excellence in the Arts Scholarship, June 2007."Recanati-Kaplan Program for Excellence in the Arts: For Young Artists, Dancers and Musicians"
,

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website

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jerins, Ruby Living people American child actresses American film actresses American television actresses 21st-century American actresses Year of birth missing (living people)

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