Lyric Ross is an American actress. She is known for her role as Deja Pearson in the NBC drama series This Is Us. Ross, raised in Homewood, Illinois, is the daughter of Brandi Smith and Stephen Ross and granddaughter of Margaret Smith. She started acting when she was five years old, appearing in commercials and guest-starring in Chicago Fire and Sirens. In 2017, she performed in a recurring role as Deja Pearson on season 2 of This Is Us while in the eighth grade at James Hart School in Homewood, Illinois. On August 27, 2018, NBC announced that Ross had been promoted to a series regular onwards from season 3. She and the rest of the show's cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2018. She is cast in the upcoming television series Ironheart. In 2022 she dubbed in the stop-motion film Wendell & Wild as Katherine "Kat" Koniqua Elliot. Ross serves as a celebrity ambassador for Orphan Myth. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lyric Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.