Actress and model best known for her recurring role as Natalie Pierce on Switched at Birth. She also guest-starred in an episode of Grimm in 2013 which was the highest rate episode of the season. She is profoundly deaf and fluent in American Sign Language. She graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf with a degree in liberal arts in 2011. She left home after graduation to head west to Los Angeles and was offered the role on Switched at Birth less than six months later.