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Mika Abdalla is set to take the leading lady title in Off Campus season two, and she’s more than ready.
The 26-year-old actress has been in the industry for nearly 20 years — no, that’s not a typo. She’s spent nearly all her life in front of the camera in someway. At the age of six, she booked her first editorial gig for the cover of a local parents magazine after a casting call at her Dallas, Texas ,dentist’s office. “I’m an only child. My mom was essentially a stay-at-home mom, so I was super codependent,” Abdalla tells The Hollywood Reporter on a Zoom.
It’s days before the actress’ 26th birthday, which happened to fall on the release date of Off Campus, and she’s curled up in her New York City hotel room. She and the rest of the cast jetted off to Brazil for a premiere screening there before heading to the Big Apple for a slew of release-week press. She pauses before we start to grab some snacks — she’s had no time to exist as a human with everything going on, she admits.
Abdalla always felt like she was more of an adult from childhood than others her age. Still, the actress admits her mother was “pulling her hair out” because Abdalla couldn’t come out of her shell. But that magazine cover changed everything for her and the path she was headed down.
