CULTURETECHLENSSkai Jackson
PROVISIONAL evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07086 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5830.
Skai Jackson, born 8 April 2002 on Staten Island, New York City, is an American actress of Afro-Honduran and African-American descent who began work as a child model in national commercials. After early screen roles including the independent film Liberty Kid (2007), she became known to a generation of viewers as Zuri Ross on Disney Channel's Jessie (2011–2015), a role she carried into the spin-off Bunk'd (2015–2018) and for which she received an NAACP Image Award nomination. Time magazine included her on its list of most influential teens in 2016. She later voiced roles in the Marvel Rising franchise and DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders, published the memoir Reach for the Skai in 2019, and reached the semi-finals of Dancing with the Stars in 2020.
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Skai Jackson, born 8 April 2002 on Staten Island, New York City, is an American actress of Afro-Honduran and African-American descent who began work as a child model in national commercials. After early screen roles including the independent film Liberty Kid (2007), she became known to a generation of viewers as Zuri Ross on Disney Channel's Jessie (2011–2015), a role she carried into the spin-off Bunk'd (2015–2018) and for which she received an NAACP Image Award nomination.
The record
- Also known as: Skai Syed Jackson
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 Skai Jackson entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5830 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 882 (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 American actress of Afro-Honduran and African-American descent, per sourced biography. Vital status: LIVING — photographed and professionally active in 2026 (Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16). PROVISIONAL: two independent sources were consulted, but the second is a booking-agency biography rather than an award-body, studio or major-press source, so the authoritative-source floor is not fully met in this pass. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Named to Time's list of the most influential teens in 2016; NAACP Image Award nomination for Jessie — Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. The Time listing is carried as a dated, attributable listing, not a current ranking. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and 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-5830-skai-jackson.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 own recordings/performances are)
Sources
- Wikipedia, "Skai Jackson" — born 8 April 2002, Staten Island; Zuri Ross in Jessie (2011–2015) and Bunk'd (2015–2018); NAACP Image Award nomination; Time most influential teens (2016); memoir (2019) and Dancing with the Stars semi-final (2020) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skai_Jackson (build store)
- All American Speakers, "Skai Jackson Biography" — child-model start, Jessie and Bunk'd recognition, Time / Hollywood Reporter / Variety young-performer listings, Reach for the Skai (Random House, 2019) — https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/409314/Skai-Jackson (build store)
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