Inde Navarrette

Inde Navarrette is an American actress whose best-known work has been in television, especially the superhero drama Superman & Lois. She plays Sarah Cushing, the daughter of Lana Lang and Kyle Cushing and the older sister of Sophie Cushing. Sarah lives in Smallville, Kansas, where the series follows the Kent family and the Cushing family alongside the emergence of Superman’s responsibilities. Navarrette’s performance places Sarah in the show’s grounded, contemporary side: she is a high-school student dealing with family changes, friendships, romance, and the consequences of extraordinary events happening around her. Her role connects adolescent problems to the series’ mythology.

Before Superman & Lois, Navarrette appeared in the fourth and final season of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why. She portrayed Estela de la Cruz, the sister of Monty de la Cruz, a character whose death and posthumous accusation had shaped the previous season. Estela’s presence gave the final season a direct connection to Monty’s family while introducing a student forced to navigate the school’s memory of him. The part was smaller than Sarah Cushing, but it demonstrated Navarrette’s work in an ensemble built around trauma, secrecy, and competing versions of the truth within a familiar but altered setting and its aftermath.

Navarrette’s television breakthrough came at a point when both projects required her to play young people living with consequences created by older generations. In 13 Reasons Why, Estela is linked to the show’s debate over whether a person can be reduced to his worst actions. In Superman & Lois, Sarah is not a superhero, yet her decisions affect the emotional balance of the Cushing and Kent households. Navarrette therefore works in stories that use recognizable family and school situations to frame larger questions about responsibility, identity, grief, and forgiveness. Those roles, rather than an action sequence, define her early career.

Sarah’s storyline also made Navarrette part of Superman & Lois’s evolving portrayal of adolescence. Sarah experiences a strained relationship with her mother, spends time away from Smallville, and must reconsider her relationship with Jordan Kent as both families face repeated crises. The role is notable because the show does not treat her as merely a romantic accessory to Jordan: her choices, mental-health struggles, and family relationships receive their own narrative weight. Through Sarah, Navarrette contributes to the series’ balance between comic-book stakes and domestic drama, which is central to its version of Superman and its surrounding families and wider community.