CULTURETECHLENSLeah Jeffries
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Combined Graph record U-07087 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5831.
Leah Jeffries, born Leah Sava Jeffries on 25 September 2009 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American actress who began as a child model before making her acting debut as Lola on the musical drama Empire (2015). She made her feature-film debut in the thriller Beast (2022) and appeared the same year in Something from Tiffany's. In May 2022 Disney+ announced her casting as Annabeth Chase, the daughter of Athena, in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, its series adaptation of Rick Riordan's novels, alongside Walker Scobell as Percy and Aryan Simhadri as Grover. The role, which she has continued through the series' subsequent seasons, earned her NAACP Image Award recognition and a Children's and Family Emmy nomination for Outstanding Younger Performer, per her biographical record.
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Leah Jeffries, born Leah Sava Jeffries on 25 September 2009 in Detroit, Michigan, is an American actress who began as a child model before making her acting debut as Lola on the musical drama Empire (2015). She made her feature-film debut in the thriller Beast (2022) and appeared the same year in Something from Tiffany's.
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- Also known as: Leah Sava Jeffries
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 Leah Jeffries entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5831 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 885 (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 in a leading Disney+ role. Vital status: LIVING — returning as Annabeth Chase for the series' third season, premiering 20 November 2026 (trade and entertainment coverage, October 2026). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Cast as Annabeth Chase in May 2022 (Disney+ announcement); the role earned NAACP Image Award recognition and a Children's and Family Emmy nomination for Outstanding Younger Performer — Disney+/Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. Award counts differ between biographical summaries consulted (two vs. three NAACP Image Awards) and are carried here without a number rather than blended. 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-5831-leah-jeffries.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
- ComicBook.com, reproducing the Disney+ casting announcement, "Percy Jackson and the Olympians Announces Two New Cast Members" (5 May 2022) — Leah Sava Jeffries stars as Annabeth Chase, a brilliant strategist and daughter of Athena — https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/percy-jackson-olympians-series-casting-disney-plus-streaming/ (primary source · build store)
- Wikipedia, "Leah Jeffries" — born Leah Sava Jeffries, 25 September 2009, Detroit; debut on Empire (2015); feature debut in Beast (2022); NAACP Image Awards and Children's and Family Emmy nomination for Percy Jackson — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Jeffries (build store)
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