Taylor Danielle Spreitler (born October 23, 1993) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as

Mia McCormick ''Days of Our Lives'' is an American soap opera broadcast on the NBC network. Created by Ted and Betty Corday, the series focuses on the residents of the fictional midwestern town of Salem, USA. It premiered on November 8, 1965. This is a list of ...

in the soap opera series ''

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'' (2009–2010), Lennox Scanlon in the sitcom ''

Melissa & Joey ''Melissa & Joey'' is an American television sitcom starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence that aired for four seasons between 2010 and 2015 on ABC Family (now Freeform). The series follows local politician Mel Burke (Hart) and Joe Long ...

'' (2010–2015) and Kendra Gable in the sitcom ''

Kevin Can Wait ''Kevin Can Wait'' is an American television sitcom starring Kevin James that aired on CBS from September 19, 2016, to May 7, 2018. The series was created by James, Rock Reuben, and Bruce Helford, and marked James' second starring role in a CBS ...

'' (2016–2018). Spreitler's films include the comedy '' 3 Day Test'' (2012), the action thriller '' The Contractor'' (2013) and the horror films '' Amityville: The Awakening'' (2017) and ''

Leprechaun Returns ''Leprechaun Returns'' is a 2018 American comedy slasher film made as a direct sequel to ''Leprechaun'' from 1993. Directed by Astron-6's Steven Kostanski, the film stars Taylor Spreitler as the daughter of Jennifer Aniston's character from the ...

'' (2018).

Personal life

Spreitler was born in

Hattiesburg, Mississippi Hattiesburg is a city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, located primarily in Forrest County, Mississippi, Forrest County (where it is the county seat and largest city) and extending west into Lamar County, Mississippi, Lamar County. The city popu ...

, spent her younger years in

Wiggins, Mississippi Wiggins is a city in and the county seat of Stone County, Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Me ...

, and then moved to

Amory, Mississippi Amory is a city in Monroe County, Mississippi. The population was 7,316 at the 2010 census. Located in the northeastern part of the state near the Alabama border, it was founded in 1887 as a railroad town by the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingh ...

Career

Beginning her career as a model, Spreitler's first commercial audition was for a national campaign for

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. This was followed by a series of spots, including those for Jif,

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, and

Chuck E. Cheese Chuck E. Cheese (formerly known as Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre, Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza and simply Chuck E. Cheese's) is an American family entertainment center and pizza restaurant chain founded in 1977 by Atari's co-founder Nolan Bu ...

. In 2009, Spreitler signed a three-year contract to play the role of Mia McCormick on the NBC daytime soap opera ''

''. In 2011, she was nominated for Best Performance in a Daytime TV Series by a Young Actress at the

32nd Young Artist Awards The 32nd Young Artist Awards ceremony, presented by the Young Artist Association, honored excellence of young performers between the ages of 5 to 21 in the fields of film, television, theater and music for the year 2010, and took place on March ...

. Spreitler starred as Lennox Scanlon, the niece of

Melissa Joan Hart Melissa Joan Hart (born April 18, 1976) is an American actress, producer, and director. She had starring roles as the title characters in the sitcoms ''Clarissa Explains It All'' (1991–1994), ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' (1996–2003), and ''M ...

's character, in

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's ''

''. In 2016, she was cast as Kendra Gable, the daughter of

Kevin James Kevin George Knipfing (born April 26, 1965), better known by his stage name Kevin James, is an American comedian and actor. In television, James played Doug Heffernan on ''The King of Queens'' from 1998 to 2007, and receieved a Primetime Emmy ...

' character, in the

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sitcom ''

''. Spreitler co-starred with

Bella Thorne Annabella Avery Thorne (born October 8, 1997) is an American actress, singer, and writer. She first received recognition for her roles as Margaux Darling in the series ''Dirty Sexy Money'' (2007–2008) and as Ruthy Spivey in the drama series ...

and

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...

in the 2017 horror film '' Amityville: The Awakening''. She also starred in the 2018 horror comedy film ''

''.

Filmography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Spreitler, Taylor 1993 births 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Mississippi American child actresses American female models American film actresses American soap opera actresses American television actresses Living people People from Hattiesburg, Mississippi People from Wiggins, Mississippi People from Amory, Mississippi