Isabella Roland

Isabella "Izzy" Roland (born September 24, 1994) is an American actress and comedian. She is known for her appearances on Dropout shows such as Game Changer and Dimension 20.

Early life

Roland grew up in West Hollywood, California, the daughter of actress and comedian Claudia Lonow. When she was two, she and her mother moved into the same household as her grandmother, the comedian and talent manager JoAnne Astrow, and her step-grandfather, the actor and comedy club owner Mark Lonow. The living arrangement inspired her mother's show How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life). She then attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she graduated with concentrations in history, French, and theater in 2016.

Career

In 2018, Roland played the main character Jess, a gender non-conforming student, in the Facebook Watch teen drama series Turnt. In 2021, she began playing the recurring character Carla, a writer for the school comedy magazine, on the HBO Max teen comedy series The Sex Lives of College Girls. In addition to other appearances, she has since played in several campaigns of the Dropout actual play series Dimension 20 and competed on various episodes of Game Changer and its spinoff Make Some Noise. In 2024, she filmed Never Stop Blowing Up, an action-themed campaign for Dimension 20, while eight months pregnant.

Roland wrote and starred in D(e)ad, a dark comedy film released in 2025, in which she plays a young woman, Tillie, whose father's ghost haunts the rest of her family. The independent and crowdfunded production was directed by Roland's mother, Claudia Lonow, and featured other members of her family in the main cast. The couple married on April 1, 2023. They have two daughters, born in 2024 and 2026.