Janel Parrish Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Wiki, Biography & More

Janel Parrish Profile, Age, Height, Family, Affairs, Wiki, Biography & More

Janel Parrish is an American actress and singer. Janel Parrish starred as Mona Vanderwaal in the mystery-drama television series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017) and its spinoff Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (2019), and as Margot Covey in the To All the Boys film series (2018–2021 ). She also portrayed Young Cosette in the Broadway production of Les Miserables (1996), and Jade in the teen comedy film Bratz (2007).

Parrish began her acting career when she was cast as Young Cosette in the National Touring Company of Les Misérables, and later portrayed the role for two months in the Broadway production at the Imperial Theatre. She subsequently appeared in several community theater productions in Hawaii – most notably as Jean Louise “Scout” Finch in Manoa Valley Theatre’s revival of To Kill a Mockingbird in 1998. In 1999, Parrish landed her first substantial television role in NBC’s action series Baywatch, appearing in two episodes as Hina, a young girl whom Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff) saves from drowning.

In October 2018, she appeared in an anti-bullying public service announcement for Disney and ABC’s #ChooseKindness campaign with Sasha Pieterse for National Bullying Prevention Month. “I have had experiences being bullied. For me, it was definitely high school. I was not the popular girl at all,” she told People magazine.

Parrish began dating chemical engineer Chris Long in September 2016, and became engaged to him on October 23, 2017. They married on September 8, 2018 at Kualoa Ranch, Oahu, Hawaii. Her father-in-law was killed by a drunk driver two weeks before the wedding. “We went to Hawaii and we had the most beautiful day, and during our vows, when Chris started talking about his dad, the sky opened up and it just started pouring rain on us. It was such a beautiful, I mean I don’ t think anybody was dry eyed, like everybody cried because it was such a beautiful moment,” Parrish recalled to ET in 2019.