[1] She started acting when she was five years old, appearing in commercials and guest-starring in Chicago Fire and Sirens.
[1][2] In 2017, she performed in a recurring role as Deja Pearson on season 2 of This Is Us while in the eighth grade at James Hart School in Homewood, Illinois.
[1][2] On August 27, 2018, NBC announced that Ross had been promoted to a series regular onwards season 3.
[3][4][5] She and the rest of the show's cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2018.
[7] In 2022 she dubbed in the stop motion film Wendell & Wild as Katherine "Kat" Koniqua Elliot.