Presley Smith

Presley Smith
Biographical Information
Date of Birth	June 28, 2015 (age 8)
Place of Birth	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Role
Role	Sunny Baudelaire
Season(s)	Season 1, Season 2, Season 3
First appearance	The Bad Beginning: Part One
Last appearance	The End
External Links
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Presley Smith is the Canadian actress who portrays Sunny Baudelaire on Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Biography

Presley Smith is a Canadian actress. She played Sunny Baudelaire from 2017 to 2019 in A Series of Unfortunate Events (Aka ASOUE). When ASOUE started filming, Presley was only eight months old.

Presley is the daughter of actress/model Paige Lindquist.

A Series of Unfortunate Events

While most infant characters are cast with twins- such as Kara and Shelby Hoffman- the crew of A Series of Unfortunate Events felt there was something "special" about Presley. As she could not be on set as much as older actors, the original plan was to give her a robotic double, but when it proved too noisy, they used the filmmaking trick of having her siblings put her down at the start of most scenes, so that she wouldn't have to be onset for most of the scene.

Presley was seven months old when production began, and did not have enough hair for Sunny's signature ponytail, so a "baby toupee" was attached to her head with a firm gel until Season 2.

While filming Season 1, Malina Weissman was helpfully able to soothe Presley while preparing for a scene. At the beginning, Louis Hynes was afraid of dropping her, but he and Weissman quickly warmed up to her. Rose Lam, the Executive Producer, was also very good at getting Presley to perform; she would hold up stuffed animals and run around behind camera to get Presley to look in the right places, or dangle an iPad with her favorite game in front of her to make her smile. In Season 2, she got less interested in such things, and so the crew had to improve their distractions for her.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2017-2019	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Sunny Baudelaire	Voice provided by Tara Strong in Seasons 1 and 2.

Gallery

Presley Smith with her mom, Paige Lindquist.

Presley Smith in New Year

Behind the Scenes

Wallpaper.

Wallpaper.

With Rose Lam, Louis Hynes, K. Todd Freeman, Joan Cusack and Malina Weissman.

With the Incredibly Deadly Viper puppet.

Presley with a Knife.

Presley meeting her Jelly Stuntdouble.

With Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes and Sara Rue.

Behind the scenes of "The Ersatz Elevator: Part Two."

With her Mother.

Preparing her own Chabo makeup.

Behind the Scenes of "The Slippery Slope: Part One."

Behind the Scenes of "The Slippery Slope: Part Two."

Behind the Scenes of "The Slippery Slope: Part Two."

With Rose Lam.

With Louis Hynes and Malina Weissman.

With Louis Hynes and Malina Weissman.

Behind the Scenes of "The Penultimate Peril: Part One."

With Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes.

With Colby Cremers.

With Colby Cremers and Kitana Turnbull.

With Colby Cremers, Lucy Punch and Kitana Turnbull.

With Max Greenfield.

With Colby Cremers.

With Max Greenfield, Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes.

With Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes.

With Colby Cremers.

Behind the Scenes of "The End.

With a spyglass.

With Malina Weissman, Louis Hynes and Nakai Takawira.

With Nakai Takawira.

With Angelina Capozzoli.

With Neil Patrick Harris.

With Neil Patrick Harris.

With her Photo Doubles.

With Louis Hynes and Malina Weissman

With Louis Hynes on the last day of shooting.

With Malina Weissman on the last day of shooting.