She also appeared in the film Nine Lives. She is an American actress and model, best known for her roles as young April O’Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2014, young Kara Zor-El in Supergirl, and Violet Baudelaire in the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events. She was cast in the lead role of the television show A Series of Unfortunate Events. Malina Opal Weissman was born March 12, 2003.