Jessica Stroup

Jessica Stroup is an actress best known for playing Erin Silver on The CW’s 90210. Stroup spent her childhood in Charlotte, North Carolina. After graduating high school, she received a scholarship to attend the University of Georgia, but she turned it down to pursue acting. At age 17, she moved to Los Angeles to take acting classes and explore opportunities in the entertainment industry.

Stroup made her acting debut on Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous in 2005 and went on to make appearances in shows including Grey’s Anatomy and Reaper. Her breakthrough came in 2008 when she was cast as Erin Silver in 90210, a role she played throughout the series’ five-season run.

She later joined the cast of The Following in 2014 and portrayed Joy Meachum in Netflix’s Iron Fist from 2017 to 2018. On the big screen, she’s appeared in films including This Christmas (2007), The Informers (2008), Ted (2012) and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016).

Stroup dated her 90210 costar Dustin Milligan from 2008 to 2010. She married businessman Neil Hutchinson in 2022.