She was 16 at the time and was immediately picked up by television agents. As the title-role actress, the Chinese American teen was endlessly entertaining.
But she left her acting career behind to graduate from Harvard University and get a real job. Formerly a banker for Merrill Lynch, today she is a preschool teacher in Connecticut. Yes, that same Rosalina Nat Wolff was in love with. That all happened when she was 15 but the truth is that she took her first steps in show business at just five years old as an actress and model. Other than acting, DiMeco is a trained musician and she can play numerous instruments such as cello, violin, bass guitar and drums.
Instead, she went to college, after which she focused more on modeling. That breakthrough role on TV came on when she was 19 years old, but she has been enjoying a prolific acting career even before that. Leggat's other great passion is dance. She is a professionally trained dancer who has danced competitively for many years. Her dancing background was often used in Life With Derek. In , Leggat married Hokey player Jeremy Williams, and the two now have two children together.
At 33 years old, Leggat is a well established Canadian actor with an impressive record and a family of her own. Her latest acting role was Emma in the short One in Two People. Leggat will star in Day Players, a TV comedy series scheduled to be released in Jordan Todosey started her career as a child actor.
Her breakthrough role was that of Lizzie McDonald. It happened in , when she was 10 years old, but that is not the only role she's known for. In , Todosey played the role of Adam Torres throughout three seasons of Degrassi. Her performance there won her A Gemini Award.
Jordan's acting career has encompassed film, TV and voice acting, and she is highly appreciated in her field. Today, she keeps on acting, although none of her other roles has been as impactful as the ones previously mentioned. She was most recently seen playing the small role of Sally in the film The Marijuana Conspiracy.
In , she will play the lead in the action film Vienna. Elizabeth Gillies was born in in Hawthorn, New Jersey. She has been acting since she was 21 years old. Much like many familiar faces on TV, Gillies's first gigs were in commercials.
She made the decision to become a full time actress at 15 years old, when she quit regular high school for a an online high school program that would't interfere with here career.
Gillies's breakthrough role was in the Nickelodeon series Victorious, where she played the somewhat sociopathic Jade West. That role is when she showed the world she can sing as well as act, and gave her the opportunity to work with Victoria Justice and Ariana Grande.
Unlike other people on this list, Gillies never went of the grid after wrapping up the set of her breakthrough role. She was involved in many other acting and music projects as well as musical collaboration with former castmate Ariana Grande.
Her next big goal in life is to win an Oscar, and something tells us it won't take long until she does. Daniella Monet Zuvic was born in in Los Angeles. She started acting in commercials when she was seven years old.
Daniella is a Nickelodeon veteran. While her acting career includes many productions, her most memorable parts are from various Nickelodeon productions, including Zoey and Victorious. In Victorious, Deniella played the part of Trina Vega, Tori's less-talented sister who refuses to acknowledge her lack of talent and keeps insisting on acting and singing as a career.
Daniella has done all but fading into the background after her Victorious days. She must feel completely at home with Nickelodeon as she kept participating in many other Nickelodeon productions. Next time we see her on screen will be in the film Aloha Surf Hotel, where she will play a character named Babymooner. She has a child named Gio with her long time partner Andrew Gardner. Kristin Herrera is no stranger to a camera. Her acting career started when she was only six years old acting in commercials.
In , Kristin scored another recurring role, this time it was that of Dana Cruz in Zoey , which landed her on this list. Her character starred on the show for one season. After leaving Zoey , Kristin participated in a very small number of productions, and in she announced that she is quitting acting altogether. In , Kristin announced her engagement to Daniel Novak. The two broke off their engagement not long after it was announced, but have since managed to get engaged once more. Zoey alumna Erin Sanders also had to be included on this list.
Known for playing the role of Quinn Pensky, the science enthusiast, Erin has had pretty small acting job until then. Her character on Zoey was actually made specifically for her. Quite impressive when you learn she was only 14 at the time. She originally auditioned to play Nicole eventually portrayed by Alexa Nikolas , but she made such an impression, that the creator wrote Quinn just for her. After her Zoey days were over, Erin didn't show any signs of slowing down.
She most recently starred in the miniseries Six Degrees of Separation. Other than acting, Erin is also passionate about yoga, rock climbing, and posting swimsuit pictures of herself on Instagram. If you were and avid watcher of Zoey , you might recognize Abby Wilde's face as Stacey Dillsen, the somewhat odd girls with a signature speech impediment. As a teenager, she was involved in a small number of theater productions before being cast as Stacey.
Abby hasn't been acting much in film or TV since she finished playing Stacey. Instead, she has been focusing more on local theater. Abby makes sure to pass her knowledge on to younger generation though coaching sessions and acting classes. Allison Scagliotti the G is silent, thank you for asking went to a regular school until the age of 11, which is also when she started taking acting lessons and switch from a regular school to home-schooling.
After putting the role of Mindy Crenshaw behind, Scagliotti kept booking small acting jobs, until landing recurring characters in different shows such as Warehouse 13, The Vampire Diaries and Stitchers.
Scagliotti is also a trained ballerina and a musician. Emma Degerstedt was born in Los Angeles in , which means she is one of the few people who didn't need to move there in order to pursue an acting career. Unlike many other people on this list, Degerstedt's first role on TV was also her breakthrough one as Maris in Unfabulous. It is almost as if high school shows throughout he years have taught us that the 'mean girl' trope is not going anywhere.
Unfabulous ended in , taking the role of Maris with it, but that doesn't mean Degerstedt stopped acting. She has guest starred in a few TV shows, but here main focus in the last few years has been theater. Tavares was born in in Los Angeles as Chelsea Royce Tavares and became passionate about acting at 10 years old. Claire in Unfabulous. Cranberry's character was friends with Maris, the designated mean girl of the show. Tavares played that ditsy role from until She has also voiced two video games and released three singles.
However, she has never released a full album. If you've ever looked at Lindsay Sloan's face and tried to remember why it looked familiar, it should be safe to assume that you used to watch her on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Sloan played the role of Valerie Birkhead, Sabrina's friend, from until Sloan's acting career, however, starts way before that, as a child actor who signed with an agent when she was no more than eight years old.
That would explain how she's had a cameo in nearly every successful TV show in the past three decades. Among numerous cheerleaders in cinematic history, Big Red was definitely the best. After that, she went on to play smaller roles, usually as a supporting character to the main star.
Unlike many other actors on our list, Soleil Moon Frye got her big break before landing a regular role on Nickelodeon. Some of you, or some of your parents at least, might remember her as the name character from Punky Brewster. Frye played her in , when she was just seven years old.
Roxie was Sabrina's college roommate and friend. After Sabrina went off the air, Frye didn't act much apart from voice acting gigs. Instead, she opted for a totally different direction. Now she has a special organic children clothing online shop called The Little Seed. She also has a website where she deals with parenting and women's issues.
Ashley Argota's first acting gig was in an independent film in The following year was when things really kicked into action for her and she was cast to play Lulu on True Jackson VP. As Lulu, Argota got to play alongside Keke Palmer and portray her best friend and assistant.
On the show, her character was often loud and crazy, which is nothing like Argota in real life. After putting her Lulu duties behind, Argota kept playing different small roles on other TV shows. While she has never quite acting altogether, she does pursue other interests as well.
She has released two studio albums and attended NYU to get a nursing degree. Most of the actresses on this list were stars of a scripted show. Summer Sanders, however, did something a little different. She used to host a quiz show called Figure It Out on Nickelodeon, where kids could display their unique or interesting talents.
And then, when she was 17, a winning high-school performance caught the eye of a Nickelodeon talent scout and earned her an audition for a then-untitled sketch comedy show. I was not a good student," she says. Instead, her first professional audition landed her a starring role on All That and cemented her place in millennial nostalgia for decades to come.
Given a rental car and the code to the side door at Nickelodeon Studios, she spent her downtime jubilantly riding the E. The show itself provided a dream-like escapism, serving as a quasi- Saturday Night Live Jr. It was weird, edgy stuff that was still family-friendly but with plenty of double entendres," she says.
As the oldest of the cast—which at various points included Amanda Bynes, Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, and Nick Cannon—Denberg often took on the "adult" roles, playing a mom , teacher , or iconically, the Loud Librarian. Other memorable characters included Minnesotan Connie Muldoon and the deadpanning vital information newsreader.
The close-knit cast quickly became like family, and Denberg says she still feels maternal toward her former co-stars. You're a kid! The show's theme song was even sung by the one and only TLC! Numerous '90s icons appeared on the show. She told MySpace :. It made, it made me feel like I was in show business when a big star, you know, when Coolio or TLC or, later on, Chris Farley and Spice Girls and like these people that were really popular, [would come by].
The artists would come in and be cool enough to come to Orlando to be on our show. And that was really, really cool. Because All That filmed at Universal Studios in Florida, the kids were basically in a giant amusement park between takes. Denberg told ABC:. I loved being on All That We were literally working at a theme park so on my lunch hour, we went to Universal Studios Florida. It was like living in a big theme park! She added in a MySpace oral history of the show:.
And then at night I would go to Disney World and watch the fireworks and then go home. It was just really cool. It was like being at college and on vacation all at once. Denberg was a mother figure to her younger co-stars on the set of All That.
Years later, when the cast reunited, she laughingly noted that the dynamic hadn't changed. She told Huffington Post:. We were at some convention [she, Server, Tamberelli and Kel Mitchell] and it was time for us to walk to where we needed to go. TV Shows. Inspirational Stories. Advertise with us. Contact us.
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