Hunter Schafer

Hunter Schafer (born December 31, 1998) is an American actress, model, and artist. Born in New Jersey and raised in North Carolina, she came to public attention after joining a 2016 lawsuit against North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, a later-repealed "bathroom bill" which prevented transgender people such as herself from using public bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity. For her activism, she was named in Teen Vogue's "21 Under 21" list in 2017. Schafer has studied both watercolor painting and clothing design. In 2017, she began modeling for various fashion brands. She planned to further pursue clothing design, but instead turned to acting when she was cast in the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria (2019–2026). She helped develop her character of transgender high school student Jules Vaughn, one of the first leading characters on American TV to be both trans and played by a trans person. Her performance and co-writing credit on an episode of Euphoria garnered critical praise. Schafer has since starred in the films The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), Cuckoo (2024), and Mother Mary (2026), and had minor roles in Kinds of Kindness (2024) and the English dub of the Japanese film Belle (2021). Schafer has continued modeling after getting into acting, serving as brand ambassador for Shiseido Makeup, Prada, and Mugler.