CULTURETECHLENSMalia Baker
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07085 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5829.
Malia Baker, born Malia Simphiwe Baker on 18 December 2006 in Gaborone, Botswana, is a Botswana-born Canadian actress and youth advocate. The daughter of a Motswana father and a white Jewish-Canadian mother, she moved to Canada at about two and a half years old and was raised in Vancouver, where she took up musical theatre as a small child. She broke out as Mary Anne Spier in Netflix's The Baby-Sitters Club (2020–2021), played Gabby Lewis in Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark?, and reached a global young audience as Chloe Charming in Disney's Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024), returning for its sequel, Descendants: Wicked Wonderland. Her screen work continued with What We Hide and Thena (2025) and Hair of the Bear (2026). Alongside acting she works publicly on girls' education, equality, and the use of a young performer's platform for change.
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Malia Baker, born Malia Simphiwe Baker on 18 December 2006 in Gaborone, Botswana, is a Botswana-born Canadian actress and youth advocate. The daughter of a Motswana father and a white Jewish-Canadian mother, she moved to Canada at about two and a half years old and was raised in Vancouver, where she took up musical theatre as a small child.
The record
- Also known as: Malia Simphiwe Baker
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Malia Baker entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5829 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 876 (TV Actresses list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black diaspora (Botswana-born, Motswana father); a Black lead in two flagship young-audience franchises. Vital status: LIVING — 2026 screen credit (Hair of the Bear) and current activity. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): series and film runs — The Baby-Sitters Club (2020–2021), Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024) with a sequel following — ICRW/Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Netflix/Disney press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5829-malia-baker.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's screen work is third-party copy)
Sources
- International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), "Uplift: A Conversation with Actress Malia Baker" — born in Botswana, moved to Vancouver as a young girl; lead role as Mary Anne Spier in The Baby-Sitters Club; A Million Little Things, The Flash, and Hope at Christmas credits; advocacy for girls' voices and equality — https://www.icrw.org/uplift-a-conversation-with-actress-malia-baker/ (primary source · build store)
- Wikipedia, "Malia Baker" — born Malia Simphiwe Baker, 18 December 2006, Gaborone, Botswana; Motswana father and white Jewish-Canadian mother; moved to Canada at about two and a half; The Baby-Sitters Club (2020–2021); Gabby Lewis in Are You Afraid of the Dark?; Chloe Charming in Descendants: The Rise of Red and Descendants: Wicked Wonderland; What We Hide, Thena (2025), Hair of the Bear (2026) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malia_Baker (build store)
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