Bailey Bass

Bailey Bass (born in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Tsireya in Avatar: The Way of Water and Claudia in the first season of the television series Interview with the Vampire (both 2022).

Personal life
Bass was born in Nashville, Tennessee to a Belarusian mother, Alesya Ignatieva, and an African-American father. She has two younger siblings.

Bass has said that she feels very connected to New York City, where she was raised in a "predominately Russian neighborhood" in Brooklyn. Bass is biracial.

Career
Bass's first acting role was a My Little Pony commercial when she was $5 1/2$. In 2011 she appeared in a Purell commercial alongside actress Malina Weissman, as well as in the film A Little Bit of Heaven (2011). In 2014 she appeared in the movie Moon and Sun. In 2020, Bass featured in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She also starred in the BET original movie A Jenkins Family Christmas (2021), and another TV movie Psycho Sweet 16 (2022).

In 2017, Bass was cast as Tsireya, a young Na'vi girl who is a free diver from the Metkayina Clan, in James Cameron's  Avatar sequels. Early on, Tsireya was described as "the young Neytiri of the ocean", likely in reference to both their statuses as daughters of their respective clans' leaders. Bass is also set to reprise the role in two additional sequels to be released in 2025 and 2029.

In 2022, Bass was cast as the teenage vampire Claudia in the first season of the Interview with the Vampire TV series (2022), based on the character played by Kirsten Dunst in the 1994 movie. Through her jewelry company in 2022, Bass created a vampire-themed ring as a promotion for Interview with the Vampire (2022), which she gifted to several cast members. She left after the first season due to scheduling issues and the role was filled by Delainey Hayles.

Other ventures
Bass was the songwriter and co-producer for Madison Lagares' song "The Holidays," released December 1, 2022.

She also owns a jewelry company called BaiBai Jewelry. The name is an acronym for the phrase "Beauty as Itself" and the brand was designed by Jay Giraldo.