Tristin Mays (born June 10, 1990) is an American actress. Mays portrayed Riley Davis in the reboot of the MacGyver series on CBS who works as a covert operative for the Phoenix Foundation.
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Career
While best known for her role as Riley Davis on the 2016 CBS reboot of MacGyver, Mays has played in television series including as Shaina in the Nickelodeon series Gullah Gullah Island and as Robin Dixon, the daughter of Marcus Dixon in Alias.
Her other television credits include Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Everybody Hates Chris, True Jackson, VP, Zeke and Luther, Big Time Rush, Victorious and The Vampire Diaries as Sarah Salvatore.[1]
As a seven years old, she joined the cast of Gullah Gullah Island in 1997, replacing Shaina M. Freeman as “Shaina”. In 1999, she was cast as Nala in The Lion King on Broadway. She subsequently played Fan in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. She also appeared in the TV show Impractical Jokers season 8 episode 5.