Sofia Black-D'Elia (born December 24, 1991[2]) is an American actress. She is known for her television roles, such as Tea Marvelli in Skins, Sage Spence in Gossip Girl, Andrea Cornish in The Night Of, and Frannie Latimer in Your Honor. From 2017 to 2018 Black-D'Elia starred as Sabrina on the Fox comedy The Mick. She also starred in the 2015 film Project Almanac and the 2016 film Viral. From 2022-2023, Black-D'Elia played the lead role in the Freeform comedy series Single Drunk Female.
Early life
Black-D'Elia was born and raised in Clifton, New Jersey, where she graduated from Clifton High School.[3] Her mother, Elinor, works in printing.[4] Her father, Anthony V. D'Elia, is a judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey.[5][6][7] Her father is of Italian descent and her mother is Jewish.[8][9] Black-D'Elia had a bat mitzvah ceremony.[1] She started acting at the age of five and signed up for dancing classes at Broadway Bound.[10]
Career
Black-D'Elia's first significant role was the recurring character Bailey on the soap opera All My Children at age seventeen. In 2010, she joined the cast of the MTV teen drama Skins[11] as Tea, an openly lesbian teenager. In the fall of 2012, Black-D'Elia played the role of Sage Spence in the sixth and final season of Gossip Girl. Black-Delia starred in the Michael Bay–produced time travel thriller Project Almanac, which was released in January 2015.[12] In 2016, she appeared in the HBO miniseries The Night Of.[13] The same year she starred as Emma in the horror film Viral.[14][15]
Black-D'Elia played Sabrina Pemberton on Fox comedy television comedy series The Mick from 2017 to 2018.[16][17][18] In 2019 she was in the role of Frannie on the Showtime legal drama television series Your Honor,[19] which premiered in late 2020. She starred in the Freeform comedy series Single Drunk Female for two seasons.[20]
Personal life
Black-D'Elia lives in New York City.[21] Black-D'Elia met filmmaker Henry Joost while working on the 2016 film Viral, which he co-directed. They married in October 2021.[1]
^Cotter, Kelly-Jane. "Jersey Girl has starring role in Project Almanac", Asbury Park Press, January 27, 2015. Accessed September 17, 2018. "Clifton's Sofia Black D'Elia stars in sci-fi thriller Project Almanac.... A graduate of Clifton High School, D'Elia might be recognizable to soap opera fans through her breakthrough role as Bailey Wells on All My Children."
