a GED, she acts as Fagin to a crew of teenaged car parts thieves.

Trinity Likins as sister JB is wise beyond her years, and her favorite bands are Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath. Jellybean lives with her biker mom in Toledo, where they run scams to make ends meet. And like mother like daughter: JB is quite the little con artist herself.

The new cast members reveal came on a mainly joke filled gathering of Riverdale regulars KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Luke Perry and Mädchen Amick plus EPs Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Jon Goldwater. Getting a big round of applause, the most serious note was when Archie himself Apa noted a big rugby game in his native New Zealand and 90210 alum Perry, who plays Archie’s dad on the series,said “nobody was watching because it was the day the Supreme Court died.”

Film, television and stage actor Gershon recently completed a residency at the famed Café Carlyle, where she performed her musical act Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues. Her television credits include FX’s Rescue Me, HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Amazon’s Red Oaks, and Lifetime’s House of Versace. Gershon also won Best Supporting Actress at the Toronto Film Festival for Killer Joe, and she appeared in Face/Off, Bound, and The Player.

On just her third professional audition, Likins landed the lead role of Amelia in the Hallmark holiday movie Christmas in the Air. She also recurred as Emma in the CBC miniseries Unspeakable.

Riverdale stars Apa, Reinhart, Perry, Amick Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse, Marisol Nichols, Madelaine Petsch, Ashleigh Murray, Casey