Layla Keating

Layla is Beverly Hills royalty by way of her music-mogul father, dating golden-boy quarterback Asher Adams and gliding through Beverly High with a wit sharp enough to cut through the show's glossy surface. She wants to be taken seriously as an artist in her own right, not just as somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, and she says so.

Onieogou plays the sarcasm as armor rather than personality, so every cutting one-liner about privilege or Asher's obliviousness lands as someone testing whether anyone will actually listen to her. The writing keeps circling her ambition and her loneliness inside all that money, and Layla stays interesting because she refuses to be just the rich girl in someone else's story.