Vella Lovell is best known for her standout role as Heather Davis on all four seasons of The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. She is set to star opposite Ted Danson and Holly Hunter in Tina Fey’s forthcoming NBC sitcom Mr. Mayor. Lovell is currently recurring in the Hulu comedy series Dollface as Kat Dennings’ over the top co-worker Alison S. She is also the voice of Mermista in the animated Netflix series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2020 Critics’ Choice Nominee, Best Animated Series). In film, she is best known for her role in the smash hit The Big Sick.  

 A graduate of the Juilliard School, Lovell has a bachelor’s degree from New York University. While at Juilliard, she played Anna Mae in Pulitzer Prize Winner Lynn Nottage’s By The Way, Meet Vera Stark and Lady Macbeth in an adaptation of Macbeth. She has also acted in The Bacchae directed by JoAnne Akalaitis at Shakespeare in the Park, and The Great Recession and Kaspar Hauser at The Flea Theater. At the Williamstown Theatre Festival she was seen in A Streetcar Named Desire directed by David Cromer, When You're Here by Samuel Hunter, and Camp Monster.