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Lauryn McClain

Lauryn McClain plays Janelle in Step Up: High Water and Bailey in Haunt, and performs with the McClain Sisters.

Biography

Lauryn McClain combines acting, singing and dance, with screen roles in Step Up: High Water and Haunt. She performs with her sisters as the McClain Sisters and described music as her first creative interest before acting became another focus.

Janelle Baker in Step Up: High Water.

Known for

Janelle Baker in Step Up: High Water

Lauryn McClain combines acting, singing and dance, with screen roles in Step Up: High Water and Haunt. She performs with her sisters as the McClain Sisters and described music as her first creative interest before acting became another focus.[1][4][2][3][5]

Career highlights

  1. Career 1

    A start alongside her sisters

    In an interview with Glitter, McClain said her interest began with music. Acting became another ambition after she appeared with her sisters in Daddy’s Little Girls. She later worked across singing, screen acting and dance-led performance.[1]

  2. Career 2

    Music with the McClain Sisters

    Lauryn, China Anne and Sierra appeared together in Disney’s coverage of the 2011 Christmas Day Parade. The McClain Sisters also wrote and performed Rise, used in the end credits of Disneynature’s Chimpanzee and as a Friends for Change anthem.[2][3]

  3. Career 3

    Janelle Baker

    McClain plays Janelle Baker in Step Up: High Water. Janelle is a teenage dancer who moves from Ohio to Atlanta with her twin brother, Tal. McClain described her character as determined and unwilling to accept being told no.[1][4]

  4. Career 4

    Returning to Atlanta to film

    The series brought McClain back to her hometown of Atlanta for her first major television drama. She told Dance Informa that its choreography drew on Atlanta street dance, contemporary dance and African styles, and credited Jamaica Craft with demanding emotional commitment as well as accurate steps.[4]

  5. Career 5

    Bailey in Haunt

    In the 2019 horror film Haunt, McClain plays Bailey, the roommate of Katie Stevens’s character Harper. The friends visit an extreme haunted-house attraction on Halloween. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods wrote and directed the film, with Eli Roth among its producers.[5]