Aurora Perrineau is an American actress and model. She is best known for starring as Shana Elmsford in Jem and the Holograms (2015), the live-action film adaptation of the 1980s animated television series Jem and her role as Detective Dani Powell in Fox’s Prodigal Son. Perrineau was born to model Brittany Perrineau and actor Harold Perrineau. She is mixed race, of African and European descent.
In 2012, Perrineau starred in the direct-to-video film Air Collision. In 2014, Perrineau appeared in episodes of Newsreaders and in Chasing Life as Margo. In April 2014, it was announced that Perrineau was cast in the role of Shana in the movie based on the hit 1980’s cartoon Jem and the Holograms.
In July 2014, she was cast in Drake Doremus’s film Equals. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 2015. Perrineau had a small role in the film Passengers, released on December 21, 2016. actress.
