Libe Barer
Libe Alexandra Barer is an American actress. She is best known for playing Carly Bowman in the Amazon Prime Video original series Sneaky Pete. She has also had recurring roles on the NBC drama series Parenthood, the USA science fiction series Colony, and the truTV sitcom Those Who Can't. Her film work includes roles in the horror films I See You and Slapface, the indie drama Disfluency, the romantic comedy Beautiful Disaster, and it's sequel Beautiful Wedding.
In animation, Barer has voiced numerous characters including Sage in Disney's Star Darlings, Violet Sabrewing in DuckTales, Jen in Rugrats, and Casey Calderón in Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. For her performance in the latter, Barer was nominated for the Imagen Award for Best Voice-Over Actor. Her younger sister is actress Ariela Barer.
Early life and education
Barer was born on December 19, 1991 in Los Angeles, California to Mexican-born Jewish parents. Her father is a pianist and classical composer, while her mother is a visual artist and writer who previously worked for a comedy radio program in Mexico. Her younger sister is actress and filmmaker Ariela Barer.Barer attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she received a Moondance Film Festival Award for her student screenplay On Top of the World. She later matriculated to the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a B.A. from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Career
2007-2014: Child acting
Barer began her career as a child actor in 2007, appearing as a guest star on the Nickelodeon sitcom Unfabulous. Later that year she played the recurring role of Tareen on season one of iCarly, also on Nickelodeon. In 2010, she appeared as Fatima Vences in the pilot episode of the ABC legal drama The Whole Truth. In 2014 she had guest role as teen patient Monica McKeever on season 11 of the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. She later appeared in a recurring role on seasons 5 and 6 of the NBC family drama series Parenthood as the teenage daughter of Tina Holmes character.2015-present: ''Sneaky Pete'' and feature film roles
In 2015 Barer was cast as a series regular on the Amazon Prime Video original series Sneaky Pete. The series received critical acclaim and ran for three seasons, concluding it's run in 2019. In 2016 Barer had a recurring arc as high-school student Pia on season one of the USA science fiction series Colony. That same year, she began portraying teacher Beth on the truTV sitcom Those Who Can't, which ran for three seasons until 2019. Later that year Barer made her feature film debut opposite Helen Hunt and Jon Tenney in the horror films I See You. The film premiered at the SXSW Film Festival to generally positive reviews from critics.In 2021 Barer starred in the independent feature film Disfluency, a coming-of-age drama about sexual assault. The film was well received on the festival circuit with Barer winning Best Actress prizes at the Newport Beach Film Festival and Film Club's The Lost Weekend. Additionally, she was nominated in the Best Actress category by the Indiana Film Journalists Association. Clint Worthington, in a review for RogerEbert.com noted "Barer’s a beautifully brittle nerve effortlessly captures the anxiety that comes from not just facing the trauma of what’s happened to you, but questioning whether it even happened the way you remember." Later that same year Barer starred in the horror film Slapface. The film premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival where it won the Audience Award and received distribution through Shudder. Slapface received critical praise and currently holds a score 91% "Fresh" on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. In 2022 Barer was a featured vocalist in Baz Luhrmann's music biopic Elvis. The following year she co-starred as America Mason in Roger Kumble's romantic-comedy Beautiful Disaster, based on the Jamie McGuire novel of the same name. She would later reprise her role in the 2024 sequel Beautiful Wedding.