Sofia Carson Biography

Sofa Daccarett Char, better known as Sofia Carson (born April 10, 1993), is an American singer and actress. Her first appearance on television was as a guest star on the Disney Channel show, Austin & Ally. In 2015, she appeared as Evie, the daughter of the Evil Queen, in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Disney's Descendants. In 2016 she appeared as Lola Perez in Adventures in Babysitting.

Early life

Carson was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Jos F. Daccarett and Laura Char Carson who had moved there from Colombia. Through her mother, Carson is related to the Char family of Colombian politicians.

At the age of three, Carson started her dance training. For seventeen years, she trained in ballet, pointe, jazz, musical theatre dance, hip hop, flamenco, modern, contemporary and tap. In 2001, Carson starred in her first musical production as Dorothy from the "Wizard of Oz"? at the Riviera Theatre in Miami. One year later, she was accepted into the University of Miami"?s Musical Theatre Summer Intensive, where she trained in dance and vocal performance, and performed in multiple musicals throughout the summer. She has competed in multiple National Dance Competitions, such as Star Power, Onstage, and Hall of Fame, where she won top performance awards (for dance, vocal performance, musical theatre, and acting) such as First Place Award (for group and solo performance), Critics Choice Award, Triple Threat Award, and Broadway Diva Award, to name a few. In 2006, Carson started classical vocal training. She attended St. Hugh School and graduated from Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart in Miami. More recently Carson has attended UCLA where she is majoring in communications with a minor in French.

Career

In 2012, Carson was signed with BMI as a "singer-songwriter". Her acting career was launched in 2014 when she was cast as guest star, playing Chelsea, on the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally. A few months later, Carson was cast as recurring guest star, playing Soleil, on MTV's series Faking It. In 2014, she was cast in a starring role in the Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants. In Descendants, Carson plays Evie, the daughter of the Evil Queen from Snow White (Kathy Najimy).

On January 9, 2015, Carson was cast in the co-lead role in the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie Adventures in Babysitting. Filming began in spring 2015, for an early 2016 television premiere. In March 2016, the Hollywood Reporter announced that Carson landed the leading role in the latest installment of the A Cinderella Story series, A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits, directed by Michelle Johnston and produced by Dylan Sellers, which will be released direct-to-DVD In an August 2015 interview Carson stated she was working on her first album. In sometime around September 1, 2015, Carson was added on the list of Hollywood Records artists. Previously, some of Disney Channel Europe websites reported the incorporation of Sofia to the label. In March 2016, Hollywood Records and Republic Records officially announced that Sofia had signed a joint worldwide record deal with both companies. Her first single is "Love Is the Name", an interpolation of Opus's "Live Is Life", and was released on April 8.

Sofia has performed in the NBC's 2015 Thanksgiving Parade, ABC's Disney Parks Christmas Celebration, Univision's Feliz 2016 (New Year's Eve Special) and the 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards and was a presenter in the ABC's Disneyland 60th Anniversary Special.

Filmography

Film roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Tini: The Movie	Melanie Diaz
2016	A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits	Tessa Golding / Bella Snow	Direct to video

Television roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2014	Austin & Ally	Chelsea	Episode: "Princesses & Prizes"
2014	Faking It	Soleil	Episodes: "We Shall Overcompensate", "Faking Up Is Hard to Do"
2015	Descendants	Evie	Television film
2015-present	Descendants: Wicked World	Evie	Voice; main role
2016	Soy Luna	Herself	Episode 24
2016	Walk the Prank	Herself	"Adventures in Babysitting"
2016	Adventures in Babysitting	Lola Perez	Television film
2017	Descendants 2	Evie	Television film; in production

Discography

Soundtrack albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US	US OST	AUS	BEL	FRA	GER	ITA	NL	SPA
Descendants	Released: July 31, 2015 Formats: CD, digital download Label: Walt Disney	1	1	57	178	102	50	19	50	36
""?" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Album
		US
"Rotten to the Core"	2015	"?	Descendants
"Love Is the Name"	2016	"?
""?" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Other charted songs

Title	Year	Peak chart positions		Album
		US	CAN
"Rotten to the Core" (among Descendants cast)	2015	38	66	Descendants
"Set It Off" (among Descendants cast)		"?	"?
""?" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Other appearances

Title	Year	Other artist(s)	Album
"Suea"	2015		We Love Disney
"Wildside"	2016	Sabrina Carpenter	Your Favorite Songs from 100 Disney Channel Original Movies

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref
2016	2016 Premios Juventud	Producers Choice Award	Herself
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Music: Next Big Thing	Herself