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Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo
Career
2015–2019: Early work and High School
Musical: The Musical: The Series
Rodrigo first appeared onscreen in an Old Navy commercial.
Shortly after in 2015, at age eleven or twelve, she made her
acting debut portraying the lead role of Grace Thomas in direct-
to-video film An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success. In
2016, Rodrigo received recognition for starring as Paige
Olvera, a guitarist in the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark, a
role she played for three seasons.
In February 2019, she was cast in the starring role of Nini
Salazar-Roberts on the Disney+ series High School Musical:
The Musical: The Series, which premiered in November of that
year; for the show's soundtrack, Rodrigo wrote "All I Want"
and co-wrote "Just for a Moment" with co-star Joshua Bassett.
Rodrigo was praised for her performance, with Joel Keller from
Decider describing her as "especially magnetic".