Lex Scott Davis

Davis was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to a life coach mother and a real estate firm owner father. She attended Drexel University as a Dance and Physical Therapy major before she moved to New York City in 2013 and continued her studies at the New York Film Academy.In 2015, Davis was cast as Toni Braxton in the Lifetime television movie Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart. After making her television debut with this role, she next co-starred in the single season of the CBS crime drama series Training Day.

In 2018, Davis made her big screen debut with starring roles in three films: the action film Superfly, the horror film The First Purge, and the legal drama Foster Boy. In 2018, Davis also played a leading role in the ABC pilot for the magic-mystery drama For Love, that not was picked up to series. The following year, she was cast in a recurring role in the Showtime drama series The L Word: Generation Q. In 2020, she was cast as Katey Sagal's title character's daughter in the ABC series Rebel. Later that year, she was cast in the film A Lot of Nothing directed by Mo McRae. She also starred in The Roku Channel comedy series The Now.