Dove Cameron

Dove Olivia Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman; January 15, 1996 ) is an American singer and actress.

Cameron was born Chloe Celeste Hosterman on January 15, 1996, in Bainbridge Island, Washington, to Philip Alan Hosterman and Bonnie Wallace, who later divorced.

She has an older sister, Claire Hosterman, who is a vocal coach.

During her childhood, Cameron attended Sakai Intermediate School.

At age eight, she began acting in community theater at Bainbridge Performing Arts.

Six years later, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she sang in Burbank High School's National Championship Show Choir.

Cameron has stated that she is of French descent and speaks some French.

She also has Russian, Slovak and Hungarian ancestry.

She has said she was bullied throughout her entire school experience, from fifth grade through the end of high school.

Regardless of the pressure at school and fitting in, Cameron stayed focused on her dreams of achieving success in entertainment: "I became very passionate about [becoming an actress and singer]. I fully immersed myself."

In 2007, Cameron portrayed the role of Young Cosette in the Bainbridge Performing Arts (BPA) stage production of Les Misérables, and in 2008, she had the lead role of Mary in The Secret Garden, again with BPA.

Her father died in 2011 when she was 15.

Following his death, Cameron changed her legal name to Dove in honor of her father, who called her by that nickname.

In 2012, Cameron was cast in a Disney Channel comedy series that was to be titled Bits and Pieces in which she would play the role of Alanna.

Shortly after filming the pilot, Bits and Pieces was retooled into Liv and Maddie, which saw Cameron starring in the dual lead role of Liv and Maddie Rooney.

She gained recognition for her dual role of the eponymous characters in the Disney Channel comedy series Liv and Maddie (2013–17), for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming.

The preview of the series debuted on July 19, 2013, and the series premiered on September 15, 2013.

On August 27, 2013, Cameron released a cover of "On Top of the World" by Imagine Dragons as a promotional single.

Her cover peaked on the Billboard Kid Digital Songs chart at 17 and spent three weeks on the chart.

On October 15, 2013, "Better in Stereo" was released as a single under Walt Disney Records.

"Better in Stereo" made its debut on the Billboard Kid Digital Songs chart at No. 21 before peaking at No. 1, becoming Cameron's first No. 1 hit.

The pilot episode gained 5.8 million viewers, which was the most-watched in total viewers in 2.5 years since the series Shake It Up! Disney Channel renewed Liv and Maddie for a 13-episode second season slated to premiere in Fall 2014, which was later expanded to 24 episodes.

In February 2014, Cameron confirmed reports that recording had begun for her debut studio album.

Her next single, "Count Me In", was released on June 3, 2014.

The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Kids Digital Songs chart.

Cameron starred in the television film Cloud 9, which premiered on January 17, 2014.

She also starred in the Disney Channel Descendants franchise (2015–2021).

Cameron has starred in several feature films including Barely Lethal (2015), Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls (2015), Dumplin' (2018), Good Mourning (2022) and Vengeance (2022).

In 2015, Cameron lent her vocals the soundtrack albums for Liv and Maddie and Descendants, the latter which topped the US Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

In 2023, she released her debut album Alchemical: Vol 1 which was preceded by the single "Boyfriend", which received critical success, reached the top 20 in the Billboard Hot 100, and was certified platinum by the RIAA.

In 2015, Cameron played Liz Larson in her first non-Disney film, Barely Lethal, which was theatrically released by A24 Films.

She later went on to also star in Descendants, which premiered on July 31, 2015.

The film was viewed by 6.6 million people and spawned Cameron's two first Billboard Hot 100 songs, "Rotten to the Core" at number 38 and a solo song, "If Only", at number 94.

Other songs from the film featuring Cameron, such as "Set It Off" and "Evil Like Me", charted at number 6 and 12 respectively on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.

The soundtrack for the movie peaked atop the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first soundtrack from a Disney Channel Original Movie since High School Musical 2 to do so.

As part of the Descendants franchise, Cameron released a cover of the Christina Aguilera's song "Genie in a Bottle".

She also starred in the NBC live television musical Hairspray Live! (2016).

She has appeared in several television shows, including Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Marvel Rising franchise.

The music video premiered on Disney Channel on March 18, 2016.

The single received 22 million views on YouTube in less than a month.