About Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter is an American singer and actress. She first gained recognition starring on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World , and signed with the Disney-owned Hollywood Records. She released her debut single, "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying" in 2014, followed by four studio albums: Eyes Wide Open , Evolution , Singular: Act I , and Singular: Act II ; three of her singles—"Alien", "Almost Love", and "Sue Me"—topped the US Dance Club Songs chart.
Carpenter moved to Island Records in 2021 and released the standalone single "Skin", which became her first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100. Her fifth album, Emails I Can't Send , was supported by the TikTok viral single "Nonsense" and the US Pop Airplay number one "Feather". She opened for Taylor Swift at the Eras Tour in 2023, and achieved wider commercial success with her sixth album Short n' Sweet . It became her first to debut atop the US Billboard 200 chart and spawned the Billboard Global 200 number one singles "Espresso" and "Please Please Please".
Carpenter has appeared in films such as the comedy Adventures in Babysitting , the coming-of-age drama The Hate U Give , the road drama The Short History of the Long Road , the musical drama Clouds , and the thriller Emergency . She has also starred in the Netflix productions Tall Girl , Tall Girl 2 , and Work It , the latter of which she executive-produced. On Broadway, she played a lead role in the musical Mean Girls .
Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter was born on May 11, 1999, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, to David and Elizabeth Carpenter, and raised in East Greenville. She is a niece of actress Nancy Cartwright. She has three older sisters and was homeschooled. Around the age of 10, she began posting videos on YouTube of herself singing Christina Aguilera and Adele songs. Her father built a recording studio for her to fuel her passion for music. In 2009, she placed third in a singing contest The Next Miley Cyrus Project, run by Miley Cyrus.
Carpenter's first acting role was in 2011 in a guest role on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Around the same time, she performed as part of the Hunan Broadcasting System's Gold Mango Audience Festival program in China, singing "Something's Got a Hold on Me". In the summer of 2012, Carpenter had a recurring role in the Fox sitcom The Goodwin Games. She appeared in Horns and recorded "Smile" for the compilation album Disney Fairies: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust, inspired by the Disney Fairies film series; the song charted on Radio Disney. She had a recurring role as Princess Vivian in Sofia the First, for which she performed the song "All You Need" with Ariel Winter.
In January 2013, Carpenter was cast in a Disney Channel series Girl Meets World, a spin-off of Boy Meets World, as Maya Hart. The show consisted of 72 episodes, and concluded on January 20, 2017. Carpenter recorded the show's theme song alongside her co-star Rowan Blanchard. Prior to 2014, Carpenter signed a five-album deal with Disney-owned then-label Hollywood Records.
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