Malina Pauline Weissman is an American-German actress. She was born in New York City to a German-Palestinian-mother and an American father. Her most notable roles are, as Violet Baudelaire in the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events, young April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and young Kara Zor-El in Supergirl. Malina is attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.