Whitney Peak: 5 Things To Know About The ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ & ‘Gossip Girl’ Star

Whitney Peak is taking Hollywood by storm. After her breakout relation arsenic Zoya Lott successful the Gossip Girl sequel series, Whitney is starring arsenic Becca successful Disney+’s Hocus Pocus 2, which premiered September 30. Whitney’s quality lights the Black Flame candle, bringing the Sanderson sisters backmost to Salem.

The 19-year-old is 1 of young Hollywood’s shining stars, and she’s conscionable getting started. From her household to her past roles, HollywoodLife has rounded up 5 cardinal things to cognize astir Whitney.

Whitney Peak astatine the ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ premiere. (Gregory Pace/Shutterstock)

1. Whitney was calved successful Uganda.

Whitney was calved successful Kampala, Uganda. She is the youngest of 4 kids. Her parent is from Uganda, portion her dada is from Canada. Her household moved to Canada successful 2012.

“I went to boarding schoolhouse successful Uganda, truthful the schoolhouse strategy determination was decidedly a batch harsher and much disciplined, but it was incredible. I had a bully time. But determination was a batch much accidental [in Canada], a batch of freedom,” she told Interview.

HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Whitney and she revealed however important sisterhood and household are to her. “I really person 2 older sisters and I person 1 older brother. I’m the youngest 1 successful my family, truthful conscionable my consciousness of household and community, keeping the radical that I emotion adjacent to me, is truthful embedded successful maine due to the fact that it’s ever benignant of been like… the 5 of america moved from Uganda into Canada and had to relearn this full society,” she said.

2. Whitney plays Zoya successful the caller Gossip Girl.

Whitney’s character, Zoya Lott, is 1 of the main characters of the caller Gossip Girl. At the commencement of the show, Zoya precocious moved to New York City and became a freshman astatine Constance St. Jude’s. She crosses paths with her half-sister Julien, played by Jordan Alexander, astatine school. As Zoya enters Julien’s word, the sisters person their just stock of highs and lows and adjacent fight implicit a boy, Obie. The HBO Max bid volition instrumentality for season 2.

3. Whitney is simply a marque ambassador for Chanel.

Whitney was announced arsenic 1 of Chanel’s US Brand Ambassadors successful March 2021.  “Honestly, I ne'er dreamed I’d get the attraction of specified a reputable house, fto unsocial the pleasance of moving with and representing them,” she said, according to Vogue. “I’m looking guardant to showing however versatile and timeless Chanel is.”

4. Gossip Girl wasn’t her archetypal role.

Whitney’s archetypal relation was successful the 2017 TV movie Campfire Kiss. She besides played Stella in Molly’s Game. Whitney joined Chilling Adventures of Sabrina arsenic Judith successful 2019. She besides played Alpha Jessica connected Home Before Dark.

Whitney Peak arsenic Zoya successful ‘Hocus Pocus 2.’ (HBO Max)

5. Whitney was the unfortunate of a scam.

She went to her first-ever audition and had respective callbacks for shows. “We got down to the last infinitesimal and we’re getting a contract. Then they asked america for this hefty interest for an cause and we didn’t cognize thing astir it. We conscionable thought: ​‘This is awesome, we’ll wage monthly,'” she told The Face. Whitney didn’t get immoderate auditions from the agent. Months later, her household realized it was a scam. “We recovered retired and it was heartbreaking. But much than anything, I felt atrocious that I got my ma into that situation, particularly wherever we were financially astatine that point,” she continued.