Pearl Warren

Pearl Warren arrives in Shaker Heights with her artist mother Mia, the newest kid at a new school, guarded about the itinerant life that's brought her here. She's smart, watchful, and quietly hungry for the ordinary stability the Richardson family seems to have in abundance, and she starts spending more time in their house than her own.

Lexi Underwood plays Pearl's longing without ever making it pathetic — you feel exactly why the Richardsons' orderly, well-lit world is intoxicating to a girl who's always been on the move. The performance sits in small shifts of posture and glance, letting Pearl's divided loyalties between two mothers and two families build almost silently.