Isa Briones

Isabella Camille Briones She rose to prominence for her starring roles in the CBS / Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard (2020–2022), including Soji, an android "daughter" of Data. She also starred as Margot Stokes in the first season of the Disney+/Hulu series Goosebumps and as Dr. Trinity Santos in the HBO Max medical drama The Pitt (2025–present).

Briones began her career as a model in New York City at age three, and started acting in feature films and stage productions in 2008. She won the Ovation Award for Featured Actress In a Musical for Next to Normal (2018) in Los Angeles. Afterwards, she returned to New York, becoming the youngest performer in the first touring company of Hamilton. Later, she made her Broadway debut playing Eurydice in Hadestown (2024) alongside her father Jon Jon Briones, who was cast as Hermes.

Early life Briones was born in London, England to Jon Jon Briones and Megan Briones ( Johnson) and she has a younger brother, Teo Briones. Her family members are all musical theater actors. She is Filipino on her father's side and Swedish and Irish matrilineally.

Her parents met in Stuttgart while auditioning for Miss Saigon; her father was closing its West End theatre production when Briones was born.

Career Film and television Briones began her acting career as a child in 2008. She appeared in television commercials and played supporting roles in feature films, including Brown Soup Thing, Takers, and Lonely Boy.

For a television pilot in 2010, Briones played one of three children of a single mother moonlighting as a drug kingpin in Beverly Hills.

In 2018, she appeared alongside her father in an episode of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. Briones sent tapes of herself to audition for the web television series while she was playing multiple roles on stage in Hamilton, and learned during the process that she would portray twins in the series. She made her debut as both Dahj and Soji during the season premiere in January 2020. Sutra is introduced in episode nine. Scott Collura of IGN wrote that Soji is effectively a plot device, but Briones "gives it her all week after week, reacting best she can to Soji's changing status quo". Keith DeCandido from Tor.com said her performance improved with each episode; "her confused post-activation Soji is her best work". Later, she portrayed Kore, a genetically engineered "daughter" of 21st century geneticist Adam Soong (Brent Spiner). In July 2020, Briones took part in the Star Trek Universe Virtual Panel for Comic-Con@Home, the virtual event that replaced San Diego Comic-Con in 2020. Briones did not return for the series' third season.

In October of 2022, Briones was added to the cast of the Disney+ series Goosebumps (2023), based on the novels by R. L. Stine. Briones played Margot, a bookworm thought by her high-school classmates to be a snob.

Briones joined the cast of the medical drama The Pitt in 2024 as Dr. Trinity Santos, a self-assured and abrasive intern. The Pitt became a major critical and ratings success upon its debut in April 2025. Santos's character was controversial among audiences for her role in interpersonal conflicts, although Briones herself said she enjoyed the role of a "complicated" character. She also cited the importance of the series' work in representing Filipino contributions to the American healthcare system, saying it had "never really been addressed before in this way. We haven't seen a lot of Filipino actors in medical shows before, and now we finally have that chance." As part of the series' primary cast, she received the award for Ensemble in a Drama Series at the 32nd Actor Awards.

Theatre Briones has performed in numerous stage musicals since childhood. She played Susan in a Los Angeles production of Miracle on 34th Street, in which Megan Briones appeared as her mother.

In 2018, Briones earned three Ovation Award nominations for Featured Actress In a Musical from the LA STAGE Alliance. She was nominated for her portrayal of Perón's mistress in Evita, and won for her performance in one of two discrete productions of Next to Normal. In his review of Next to Normal in August 2016, Cary Ginell of BroadwayWorld wrote, "Briones gives a disquietingly effective, achingly nuanced portrayal" of her character, Natalie; in October, Ginell called her song in Evita "one of the most quietly exquisite moments in the entire musical." Margaret Gray of the Los Angeles Times called Briones the "breakout star" of Next to Normal in May 2017: "Briones played the role before ... and she has a lock on it." Erin Conley of OnStage Los Angeles praised Briones's "beautiful, crystal clear voice."

Briones joined her father when he moved back to New York in January 2018. and understudied for the role of Eliza Hamilton. Cincinnati CityBeats Rick Pender wrote, "Briones brings a sultry alto to her second role as Maria Reynolds," Hamilton's mistress. She toured with the company until March 2019, and was cast in Star Trek: Picard in April. In May 2020, Briones and the cast of Crazy Talented Asians began producing a monthly online performance series.

Briones returned to the stage in Los Angeles in April 2022 for a reading of Graves, a play written by Ellie Pyle and directed by Bola Ogun. In July, she joined the cast of Grease as staged by Musical Theatre West. Sean McMullen of The Press-Enterprise called her presence as Betty Rizzo "tough, seasoned, and visceral." Steven Stanley of Stage Scene LA wrote, "Briones gives Rizzo both power pipes and tough-girl swagger". In March 2024, Briones joined the cast of Hadestown on Broadway as Eurydice. Her father joined the cast as Hermes.

Music Briones has recorded several video duets with fellow Filipino-American performer AJ Rafael. Their version of "Rewrite the Stars" from The Greatest Showman was released as a single. Briones said, "it's so right that this is the song" playing at the end of Data's journey. Her rendition was released as a single in 2020.

Personal life As of 2020, Briones lived in Los Angeles.

In 2021, she participated in a video campaign addressing hate crimes against Asian Americans.

Upon being cast in The Pitt, Briones advocated for a change in her character's name to represent her Filipino heritage, reflecting the strong Filipino presence in the medical field. Her character delivers a line in Tagalog to two gossiping Filipina nurses in the first-season episode "5:00P.M.", confirming their own suspicions about her Filipina ancestry.

Acting credits Film

Television Year Title RoleNotes 2018 The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story Elena Cunanan Episode: "Creator/Destroyer"; also starring Jon Jon Briones 2020 The Ready Room Herself Web television aftershow: "S1 E9" 2020–2022 Star Trek: Picard Dahj/Soji/Jana/Sutra/Kore 14 episodes 2023 Goosebumps Margot Main role; Season 1 (10 episodes)2025–presentThe PittDr. Trinity SantosMain role; 30 episodes

Theatre

Discography

Featured Recordings

Murder at the Gates (2026) - Steven Sater, James Bourne

Awards and nominations