Karrie Martin Lachney
Karrie Martin Lachney is an American actress born and raised in southern Louisiana to Honduran parents. She is the female lead on the Peabody nominated Netflix series 'Gentefied' executive produced by America Ferrera. Additionally, she has guest-starred on shows such as "Pretty Little Liars," "The Arrangement," and "The Purge."
Before landing the leading role in Gentefied, she was a casting associate at Betty Mae, casting multiple films, including Bad Boys 4 Life alongside Will Smith, Troop Zero with Viola Davis, and Promising Young Woman with Carey Mulligan, among others.
In 2021, Martin Lachney partnered with producer Teri Weinberg (Ugly Betty, The Office) and acquired the film and television rights to the book series 'That Boy' from author Jillian Dodd. Martin and Weinberg will develop the books into a series. Season two of 'Gentefied' will release in the fall of 2021.
She is based in Lousiana when not working.
Movies
While a virus that causes the dead to reanimate brings the world to its knees, the scientist responsible entrusts his cataclysmic findings to Katya Nevin, a troubled ex-war correspondent turned anchor-woman at W.W News. While she and the rest of her crew witness the collapse of society via video feeds from around the globe, a deadly special agent climbs the building floor by floor, his only goal to ensure her silence. Armed only with information and an indomitable will to live, Katya must overcome her crippling anxiety and learn to lead in order to make it out of the studio and into a terrifying new world where only the dead survive.
