Obsession is the internet’s latest, well, obsession. Twenty-six-year-old director Curry Barker’s hit horror film, starring Michael Johnston, Inde Navarrette, Megan Lawless and others, had a budget of less than US$1 million, but has grossed an astonishing US$74 million worldwide at the time of writing, per Variety.

The film follows a young man named Bear Bailey (Johnston) whose crush on his friend and colleague, Nikki Freeman (Navarrette), turns fatal after he uses a mysterious One Wish Willow stick to make her love him “more than anyone in the f***ing world”.

Boasting a 95 per cent Rotten Tomatoes score, Obsession shot its cast to global fame. There’s the newly minted scream queen Navarrette, and also Lawless, who plays Nikki and Bear’s friend Sarah Harper. In one of the most memorable moments from the film (spoiler alert), Sarah, who is interested in Bear, is killed by Nikki.

“I just feel honoured to have such an iconic death scene in this film that no one will forget,” Lawless told The Hollywood Reporter. The scene was originally much more brutal in the cut that was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, but was edited to avoid an NC-17 rating.

So, who is Megan Lawless?

She’s biracial

Lawless’ mother hails from Taiwan, per Mochi Magazine, an Asian-American-focused digital publication. “I grew up in the south, and everyone would always ask me, ‘What are you?’ and I’d be like, ‘Oh! I’m from Georgia, I was born in DC.’ And they’d be like, ‘No, but what are you really?’ and I’d say, ‘Well I’m half Chinese and half white,’” she told the publication. She considers her mother her role model.

Her father is Irish-American, according to her bio on the We Audition website, which allows aspiring actors to find scene partners to run lines with them before an audition.

What is Megan Lawless’ family background?