TV viewers first caught notice of Skyler Samuels when she became a junior correspondent at just 8 years old and went on to be a Disney Channel regular on shows like "Wizards of Waverly Place," "The Suite Life," and "That's So Raven." By age 16, Skyler was the title character of ABCFamily's "The Nine Lives of Chloe King." It was while filming that show in San Francisco that she first visited Stanford University; she became a Stanford Cardinal two years later. After Stanford, she returned to TV in a sci-fi role: playing telepathic triplets in "Marvel's The Gifted."
One of 5 children in the family of Kathy Samuels, a producer for unscripted series, and Scott Samuels, a U.S. Marshal.
She has three brothers: Cody Samuels, Harrison Samuels, and Jack Samuels; and one sister, Heather Samuels.
She is a distant relative of Dakota Johnson, (Skyler's paternal grandfather was Fred Samuels, whose wife Nanita Greene was Skyler's step-grandmother. Nanita's previous husband was Peter Griffith, whose granddaughter is Dakota).