Rayanne Graff

Rayanne is Angela Chase's new best friend, the girl from the wrong side of caution who pulls her out of good-girl orbit and into something riskier and more alive. She's funny, magnetic, reckless with her body and her heart, always chasing the next feeling. Underneath the bravado she's hungry for attention nobody's giving her at home.

The show could have made Rayanne a cautionary tale, but it writes her with real tenderness, and A.J. Langer plays the charisma and the wobble underneath it simultaneously — you see the performance she's putting on for everyone, including herself, and the exhaustion of keeping it up. She's the friend who makes you feel awake and worries you a little.