Best known for breathing life into Valak/The Nun in The Conjuring 2 (2016), Bonnie Aarons is an American actress who is best known in the industry for playing character roles. Making her debut with the 1994 film Exit to Eden, she essayed various memorable roles among which was the Bum in the 1999 television movie as well as 2001 film adaptation, Mulholland Drive.
She also played Baroness Joy von Troken in The Princess Diaries (2001) and the sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). In addition to this, she played minor supporting characters in mainstream films like I Know Who Killed Me (2007), Drag Me to Hell (2009), Dahmer vs. Gacy (2010), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), among others. Aaron will reprise the character of Valak in the Conjuring spin-off The Nun (2018), which is also the origin story of the demon.