Annalise Basso

From 2014 until 2015, she starred in the television series The Red Road.

• Name — Annalise Basso • Born — 2 December 1998 • Occupation — * Actress • model • Years Active — 2007–present

Most of her initial roles have been on television commercials or small guest appearances on television series. Her first role that garnered attention was her role as Eden Hamby on True Blood. In 2009, she starred in the television film Love Takes Wing from the Love Comes Softly series. When she was 10, she took part in Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? as a student. More recently, she has had roles in episodes of New Girl and Nikita. Basso's first lead role in a feature film was in D. J. Caruso's Standing Up, a coming-of-age story based on the novel The Goats by Brock Cole. The film debuted at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The story centers on two children, played by Basso and Chandler Canterbury, who are stripped naked and left stranded together on an island as part of a summercamp prank. In 2014, she starred in the horror film Oculus as a younger version of Karen Gillan's character. Basso gained greater recognition and attention for the critically successful horror film Ouija: Origin of Evil in 2016. In 2017, she played Angela in the James Franco-produced Camp, released in 2024. In 2019, she played Heaven Casteel in series of Lifetime movies based on the Casteel saga by V.C. Andrews. She starred as LJ Folger in TNT's apocalyptic thriller Snowpiercer, adapted from the movie of the same name. In 2025, Basso starred and produced the Lifetime film Vanished Out of Sight (AKA Blind River) where she portrayed the blind woman Claire Moyer.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2008 — Desperate Housewives — Denise — Episode: "Me and My Town" • 2009 — Love Takes Wing — Lillian — Television film • Lie to Me — Maggie Ambrose — Episode: "Better Half" • True Blood — Eden Hamby — Episode: "Keep This Party Going" • Three Rivers — Mary — Episode: "The Luckiest Man" • Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? — Student — Main role (season 1) • 2010 — Childrens Hospital — Morgan — Episode: "I See Her Face Everywhere" • 2011 — Bones — Amber Tremblay — Episode: "The Change in the Game" • Parks and Recreation — Abigail — Episode: "Pawnee Rangers" • 2012 — New Girl — Sarah Shiller — Episode: "Kids" • Nikita — Liza Abbott — Episode: "Innocence" • 2014 — The Red Road — Kate Jensen — Main role • 2015 — Constantine — Vesta Whitney — Episode: "Waiting for the Man" • 2018 — Electric Dreams — Foster Lee — Episode: "Safe & Sound" • 2019 — Heaven — Heaven Casteel — Television film • Dark Angel — Heaven Casteel — Television film • Fallen Hearts — Heaven Casteel — Television film • 2020–2022 — Snowpiercer — LJ Folger — Main role • 2025 — Blind River — Claire Moyer — Television film; also producer • 2026 — Margo's Got Money Troubles — Kathryn — 2 episodes

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2016 — Cold — Isla Wallis

• Year — Song — Artist — V Link • 2015 — "Outcast" — Mainland —

• Year — Award — Category — Work — Result — Ref(s) • 2014 — Young Artist Award — Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film — Standing Up