Bella Thorne Biography

Annabella Avery Thorne (born October 8, 1997) is an American actress, model, singer and music video director. She began her career appearing as a child model. Thorne played Ruthy Spivey in the television series My Own Worst Enemy (2008) and Tancy Henrickson in the fourth season of Big Love (2010), before gaining prominence for her role as CeCe Jones on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up (2010-2013). She also portrayed the lead role of Paige Townsen in the Freeform drama series Famous in Love (2017-2018). She has also appeared in several films, including Blended (2014), The DUFF (2015), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015), You Get Me (2017), Amityville: The Awakening (2017), The Babysitter (2017), Midnight Sun (2018) and Assassination Nation (2018).

Early life and education

Thorne was born in Pembroke Pines, Florida, to Tamara Thorne (ne Beckett) and Delancey Reinaldo "Rey" Thorne. She has three siblings who are also actors. Her father, who died in 2007 in a traffic accident, was Cuban. On her maternal side, Thorne said she is of Italian ancestry, with some Irish, English, Welsh, and German descent. Thorne has said that she was raised by a single mother who was supporting four children, and that they were very poor, which is why she worked as a child actress, to help to support the family.

On a September 2017 appearance on Chelsea, Thorne told Chelsea Handler that she was bullied growing up because she was dyslexic, lived in a suburban area and spoke Spanish as her native language.

In January 2018, Thorne stated that she had been sexually abused from a young age until she was 14. She did not identify her abuser.

Thorne was diagnosed with dyslexia in the first grade. She was home-schooled after previously attending a public school, where she had suffered from bullying. She improved in her learning after attending a Sylvan Learning center and began reading and writing a grade ahead. She discussed her dyslexia in an April 2010 interview with American Cheerleader magazine and explained that she overcame her dyslexia by rigorously reading everything she could find, including the labels of cereal boxes.

Career

2003-2009: Dirty Sexy Money and My Own Worst Enemy

Thorne's first film appearance was an uncredited role as a sidelines fan in the 2003 film Stuck on You. She has since appeared in film and television projects including Entourage and The O.C. as a younger version of Taylor Townsend. In 2007, she joined the recurring cast of Dirty Sexy Moneys second season, her first major television role. She played Margaux Darling. The series revolves around lawyer and family man Nick George when Nick's father mysteriously dies in a plane crash, he agrees to take his position as the Darling family's lawyer, while trying to discover who committed the murder. In 2008, Thorne starred alongside Christian Slater and Taylor Lautner in the short-lived drama series My Own Worst Enemy, for which she won a Young Artist's Award for her portrayal of the character Ruthy Spivey; Thorne described her Enemy casting as a major breakthrough as this was the first recurring role in her career. That same year, she starred in the third-last episode of October Road as Angela Ferilli, the pre-adolescence crush of the main characters. Her older brother Remy also guest-starred in the same episode as a younger Eddie Latekka.

In 2009, she starred the web series Little Monk, which depicted characters from the series Monk, as Wendy, one of the Monks' classmates. The webisodes are available only on the "Best of Monk" DVD. Also in 2009, she played the role of the vengeful antagonist in the horror film Forget Me Not. Thorne took on a supporting role in the family drama Raspberry Magic, the movie premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival in 2010.

2010-13: Big Love and Shake It Up

In 2010, Thorne replaced Jolean Wejbe as Tancy "Teenie" Henrickson, Bill and Barb's younger daughter in Season 4 of HBO's Big Love. Thorne starred as co-star on the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, originally titled Dance, Dance Chicago. Thorne played CeCe Jones, a dancer with heavy ambitions for a career in the spotlight despite having dyslexia. The show is a buddy comedy centered on a teen dance show (in a show-within-a-show format) co-starring Thorne and Zendaya. The multi-camera series began production in Hollywood, California, in July 2010 and premiered on November 7, 2010, on Disney Channel. While she had a substantial portfolio of work in television and film, Thorne had no experience in professional dancing before being cast. After signing onto the show in October 2009, she began taking three dance classes every night. Thorne's first single, Watch Me was released on June 21, reaching 86 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts, 9 on the US Top Heatseekers charts and earning RIAA: Gold. On September 29, 2011, Disney Channel announced it had increased Shake It Ups second season order to 26 episodes. A 90-minute special episode Made In Japan aired August 17, 2012, as the season two finale.

On June 4, 2012, Disney Channel announced that Shake It Up had been renewed for a third season. In 2012, Thorne was cast as Avalon Greene in the Disney Channel Original Movie Frenemies. TTYLXOX was released on March 6, reaching 97 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts. On March 30, 2013, it was confirmed by Hollywood Records via Twitter that Thorne had officially signed to the record label. On July 25, 2013, the Disney Channel confirmed that Shake It Up would be canceled after the end of the third season. On April 23, 2013, Thorne announced her debut album with eleven songs. Thorne spoke about the album, saying "What fans can expect is [for it] just to be very different from anyone because I don't like to be one of those artists where you can be like: 'Oh yeah, I know them from that song.' All my songs are very different from each other. So I don't want to be known as only one genre." Thorne cited Britney Spears, Kesha, and Destiny's Child as influences for the album.

2014-present: Films, Famous in Love, and upcoming debut album

In 2014, Thorne co-starred in the comedy Blended, as Adam Sandler's character's daughter. She also co-starred in the films Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014) and The DUFF (2015), playing high school antagonists. On July 30, Thorne was cast in an episode of the fifteenth season of the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The episode, "The Book of Shadows", aired October 19, 2014. Thorne appeared in the sequel to Mostly Ghostly (2008), titled Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend (2014) as Cammy Cahill. On October 15, Thorne revealed her debut album was canceled, saying she wasn't happy with the "auto-tuned bad music" she had in the works. She released an EP, Jersey, on November 17. The lead single from the EP, "Call It Whatever", debuted in the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart at number forty-seven, eventually rising to number ten, spending a total of ten weeks on the chart.

It was reported that Thorne had signed a new deal to write a series of books, beginning with her first novel, Autumn Falls. Thorne has signed on as one of the leads in Manis Film's thriller Big Sky; Thorne plays Hazel. On December 12, Thorne was cast in the MTV series Scream, which is a television adaptation based on the original slasher film series Scream. Thorne was offered the lead role of the series but felt that the role of the "mean, terrible Nina" would be more iconic. In 2015, Thorne was cast in the animated U.S. dub of the film The Frog Kingdom, portraying the role of Frog Princess. The film is scheduled to be released on video on demand and on DVD beginning on June 30, 2015, by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

On June 1, 2015, it was announced that Thorne would star in the AwesomenessTV film Shovel Buddies, playing the role of Kate, the movie was released on iTunes in October 11, 2016. She will also play Jamie, a disillusioned teenager intensely guarding a personal secret, in the film Keep Watching.

Also in 2015, she appeared as Ashley, a young and famous singer in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip. In 2016, Thorne played Rain in Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween.

In 2017, Thorne went back to television with a drama series Famous in Love airing on Freeform where she played Paige Townsen, an ordinary college student, who gets her big break after auditioning for the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. In the same year, Thorne starred in the Netflix original film, You Get Me. In October of that year, Thorne appeared in the slasher comedy The Babysitter, directed by McG and released directly to Netflix.

Thorne stars in the romantic drama Midnight Sun, based on the 2006 Japanese film of the same name. The film was released on March 23, 2018.

In August 2018, it was revealed that Thorne has officially returned to music and signed to Epic Records and began work on her debut album titled, What Do You See Now?, which is expected to release in sometime in 2019.

Philanthropy

Thorne is an avid supporter of the Humane Society, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and The Nomad Organization, which provides education, food and medical supplies to children in Africa. She also joined PETA in encouraging people to boycott and protest SeaWorld, acknowledging that as a child she appeared in a commercial for the theme park.

Personal life

In August 2016, Thorne came out as bisexual. She has been in a relationship with internet personality Tana Mongeau since the summer of 2017. She was previously in a relationship with Lil Peep.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Stuck on You	MC Sideline
2007	Craw Lake	Julia	Short film
2007	Finishing the Game	Sue
2007	Blind Ambition	Annabella
2007	The Seer	Claire Sue (young)
2009	Water Pills	Psych Out Girl	Short film
2009	Forget Me Not	Angela Smith (young)
2010	My Day. My Life	Herself	Documentary
2010	One Wish	The Messenger
2010	Raspberry Magic	Sarah Patterson
2012	Katy Perry: Part of Me	Herself	Documentary
2013	Underdogs	Laura (young)	Voice role
2013	The Frog Kingdom	Princess Froglegs	Voice role
2014	Blended	Hilary "Larry" Friedman
2014	Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend?	Cammy Cahill
2014	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Celia Rodriguez
2014	The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King	Gerda	Voice role
2015	The DUFF	Madison Morgan
2015	Big Sky	Hazel
2015	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip	Ashley Grey
2016	Shovel Buddies	Kate
2016	Ratchet & Clank	Cora	Voice role
2016	Boo! A Madea Halloween	Rain
2017	Keep Watching	Jamie Mitchell
2017	You Get Me	Holly Viola
2017	Amityville: The Awakening	Belle Walker
2017	The Babysitter	Allison
2018	Assassination Nation	Reagan
2018	Midnight Sun	Katie
2018	Ride	Jessica
2018	Conrad & Michelle	Michelle
2018	The Death and Life of John F. Donovan	Jeanette	Scenes deleted
2018	I Still See You	Veronica
2019	Leave Not One Alive	TBA	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Entourage	Kid	Episode: "I Wanna Be Sedated"
2007	The O.C.	Young Taylor Townsend	Episode: "The Case of the Franks"
2007-2008	Dirty Sexy Money	Margaux Darling	Recurring role (season 2)
2008	October Road	Angela Ferilli	Episode: "Stand Alone by Me"
2008	My Own Worst Enemy	Ruthy Spivey	Main role
2009	Little Monk	Wendy	Main role
2009	In the Motherhood	Annie	Episode: "Practice What You Preach"
2009	Mental	Emily	Episode: "Pilot"
2010	Big Love	Tancy "Teenie" Henrickson	Main role (season 4)
2010	Wizards of Waverly Place	Nancy Lukey	Episode: "Max's Secret Girlfriend"
2010-2013	Shake It Up	CeCe Jones	Lead role
2011	Good Luck Charlie	CeCe Jones	Episode: "Charlie Shakes It Up"
2011	Disney's Friends for Change Games	Herself / Contestant	5 episodes, part of Green Team
2012	Frenemies	Avalon Greene	Television film
2014	Phineas and Ferb	Brigitte	Voice role; episode: "Night of the Living Pharmacists"
2014	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Hannah Hunt	Episode: "The Book of Shadows"
2014	Red Band Society	Delaney Shaw	Episodes: "How Did We Get Here?", "What I Did For Love"
2015	K.C. Undercover	Jolie	Episode: "Spy-Anoia Will Destroy Ya"
2015	Perfect High	Amanda	Television film
2015	Scream	Nina Patterson	Guest role; 2 episodes
2017-2018	Famous in Love	Paige Townsen	Lead role
2018	Conrad & Michelle: If Words Could Kill	Michelle Carter	TV film

Video games

Year	Title	Voice
2006	The Ant Bully	Ant Kid
2016	Marvel Avengers Academy	Greer Grant / Tigra

Theatre credits

Year	Title	Role	Company / Venue	Notes/Refs
	Alice in Wonderland	Alice	New York Spring Spectacular / Radio City Music Hall

Bibliography

Autumn Falls novels:

• Autumn Falls (Delacorte Press, 2014)
• Autumn's Kiss (Delacorte Press, 2015)
• Autumn's Wish (Delacorte Press, 2016)

Discography

Studio albums

• What Do You See Now? (TBA)

Extended plays

• Made in Japan (2012)
• Jersey (2014)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2008	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress	The O.C.
2009	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress	October Road
		Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) - Supporting Young Actress	My Own Worst Enemy
2010	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress	Mental
2011	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) - Leading Young Actress	Shake It Up
		Outstanding Young Ensemble in a TV Series (shared with cast)	Shake It Up
		Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress 11-15	Wizards of Waverly Place
		Best Performance in a TV Series - Recurring Young Actress 11-16	Big Love
	Imagen Awards	Best Young Actress - Television	Shake It Up
2012	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Series - Leading Young Actress	Shake It Up
		Outstanding Young Ensemble in a TV Series (shared with cast)	Shake It Up
	Imagen Awards	Best Young Actress - Television	Shake It Up
	ALMA Awards	Favorite TV Actress - Comedy	Shake It Up
2013	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Movie, MiniSeries, Special or Pilot - Leading Young Actress	Frenemies
	Young Hollywood Awards	One to Watch	Herself
2014	Young Hollywood Awards	You're So Fancy	Herself
		Best Social Media Superstar	Herself
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Female Hottie	Herself
2015	Shorty Awards	Actress	Herself
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie: Villain	The DUFF
		Choice TV: Scene Stealer	Scream
2017	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actress: Drama	Famous in Love
		Choice Summer Movie Actress	Amityville: The Awakening
2018	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actress: Drama	Famous in Love
		Choice Drama Movie Actress	Midnight Sun
		Choice Movie Ship	Bella Thorne & Patrick Schwarzenegger - Midnight Sun