Kayla Adams

Biography

Kayla Adams is a half-Lebanese native of Mission, British Columbia, Kayla always knew she wanted to be an actress. However, there were few opportunities in her quaint community in Western Canada. After spending six lively months in Australia after high school graduation, she returned and entered the Vancouver Film School, where she began to actively explore an acting career. After successful commercial work, her first television break was The Actress Diaries, a show business television series in which she won the part of a snarky young actress caught up in the complexity of the audition process. One of her first film roles was the part of Kelly the waitress opposite Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool. Kayla’s additional credits include the television film, Night of the Wild, and the film, You Are Here. She plays “Michelle” opposite Brad Pitt and Donald Sutherland in director James Gray’s adventure drama, Ad Astra. She also appears as a scholar opposite Salma Hayek and Owen Wilson in writer/director Mike Cahill’s science fiction drama, Bliss; she plays the lead skydiver in the upcoming horror thriller, Hex; and in Rogue Warfare, she’s a traumatized middle eastern mother whose entire family is wiped out in a terror attack that takes her life as well. Kayla has also written and produced two short films, one of which, Bound, secured her a nomination for Best Actress at North Hollywood Cinefest. She’s currently developing a film about the World War II experience of her grandfather as a downed flyer in the Royal Canadian Air Force (2019.)