Tiera Skovbye

Canada 🎬 Actresses

Tiera Skovbye played Polly Cooper in Riverdale and somehow made a character who was arguably one of the weirder narrative choices in the show's first few seasons into someone viewers actually cared about, which takes real actor instincts in a show that moves fast and dispenses with characters freely. The Vancouver-born Canadian actress has built her career across a range of television projects, with Riverdale providing the breakout visibility that allowed her to demonstrate range across different material. There's a thoughtfulness to how Skovbye approaches her work that comes through even in high-concept genre television — she's clearly asking questions about the character that the writers didn't necessarily answer in the script. With 22 images in her library, she's building a profile that suggests she's going to be one of those quietly excellent presences across Canadian and American television for a long time.