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Emma Noelle Roberts (born February 6, 1986), known as Emma Dumont, is an American actress, model, and dancer. She is best known for her role as Melanie Segal in the ABC Family series, Bunheads.

Personal life
Dumont was born in Seattle, Washington. She attended Washington Middle School and later attended James A. Garfield High School for a while before leaving to pursue modeling. She is also a trained dancer and had participated in in the Seattle Music Theatre.

Career
Her first film role was in True Adolescents in 2009. She later appeared in the movie, Dear Lemon Lima, that same year.

In 2010, Dumont won the Ford VA Model Search contest and appeared in V Magazine.

In early 2012, she appeared in the independent film, Nobody Walks, alongside Dylan McDermott, John Krasinski, Jane Levy, Olivia Thirlby, and Rosemarie DeWitt.

She was recently cast in the new ABC Family original series, Bunheads, starring Sutton Foster. She portrays Melanie, one of the main characters who attends the dance academy run by the lead's mother-in-law.