Chiara Aurelia

Chiara Aurelia de Braconier d'Alphen (born 2002) is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the films Gerald's Game and Back Roads. She stars as Jeanette Turner in the Freeform teen drama series Cruel Summer. Aurelia was born in Taos, New Mexico to Frederic de Braconier d'Alphen and Claudia Kleefeld. De Braconier d'Alphen, who died when Aurelia was three, was from Leuven, Belgium, the great nephew of Édouard Empain and a descendant of Peter Paul Rubens. Kleefield is the daughter of singer and actor Tony Travis/Kleefeld and author and poet Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, and the granddaughter of builder Mark Taper, of the Mark Taper Forum. Her mother's family is Jewish. Aurelia has an older sister in England. Aurelia grew up in Albuquerque. She began acting in school productions and local drama classes when she was five. From the age of 11, she split her time between Albuquerque and Los Angeles pursuing her career. She studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute.