Riley Voelkel

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil "The Media Giant" Haley and
Spiffy Sean Styles interview Riley Voelkel. Riley Emilia Voelkel
was born in Elk Grove, California, Riley Voelkel's family moved
to Calgary, Alberta, Canada when she was a child and she grew up
in Sacramento, California. As a youth she was heavily involved in
athletics, her family and schoolwork. Riley was discovered during
a modeling audition and she lost no time in taking advantage of
that opportunity. She moved to Los Angeles and threw herself into
the acting world. With her natural talent for the arts it did not
take long before she was booking commercials and acting full
time. Her first acting role was as a club girl in the Oscar
nominated film The Social Network, directed by David Fincher and
written by Aaron Sorkin. From there Riley's career took off and
she quickly booked roles in such hit series as The Mentalist,
Glee, and American Horror Story. She worked once again with Aaron
Sorkin when she was cast as student turned assistant Jenna
Johnson in HBO's award-winning The Newsroom opposite Jeff
Daniels. More roles followed culminating in perhaps her
best-known role to date, Freya Mikaelson in CW's The Vampire
Diaries spin-off, The Originals. Voelkel played Freya for four
seasons (2014 to 2018) and reclaimed her role when she
guest-starred on the second season of Legacies. Voelkel was then
cast in the recurring role of Jenna Cameron in CW's science
fiction drama series, Roswell, New Mexico. From there she has
taken on her most challenging role yet in the Jerry Bruckheimer
produced Starz series Hightown, that of Renee Segna, former
exotic dancer and fiancé to a drug kingpin.