Clea DuVall

Clea DuVall is an American actress known for But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), a cult classic queer film in which she played a cheerleader sent to conversion therapy, The Faculty (1998), Heroes (NBC), and Veep (HBO). She has been openly lesbian for much of her career, though was private for many years. She wrote and directed the lesbian holiday romantic comedy Happiest Season (Hulu, 2020), starring Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis — one of the most commercially successful explicitly lesbian films in Hollywood history — and appeared as a supporting character. DuVall has spoken about writing the film from a deeply personal place and about the scarcity of queer women's stories at the studio level.