Ava Michelle


Ava Michelle Cota is an American actress, dancer and model. She is best known for her role as the character Jodi Kreyman in the Netflix comedy, Tall Girl. She is also well known from the third and fourth seasons of Dance Moms.

Biography

Ava was born on April 10, 2002 and was raised in Fenton, Michigan. She attended JC's Broadway Dance Academy which was owned and operated by her mother Jeanette, but closed permanently in 2017. Michelle was a guest dancer of the ALDC "Select Team" in season 4 of Dance Moms.
Ava has been trained in contemporary, ballet, pointe, jazz, and tap dance. Ava is also a model and made her debut on the runway for New York Fashion Week in 2017. In 2018, she launched a social media campaign, #13Reasons4Me that encourages people to list 13 things they love about themselves or in their lives.

Career

Ava appeared in 2013 on the television series Dance Moms and was a regular on the show for another 4 years. She later toured the United States with other former stars from Dance Moms in 2018. In 2016, she was in the first episode of , though she was eventually cut due to her height.
She appeared in several short movies in 2018 and made appearances in two episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful. Her first major role in acting came as playing the lead character in the Netflix film Tall Girl which was first broadcast on September 13, 2019.

Filmography

Film

Television