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Laura Marano (born Wednesday November 29, 1995) is an American teen actress. She has appeared in Without a Trace and Back to You, in both instances playing the daughter of the main characters. She currently stars in the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally as Ally Dawson. Her older sister Vanessa is also an actress.
Life and career[]
Marano is the daughter of college professor Damiano Marano and former actress Ellen Marano. Marano's first acting role was when she was five years old.[4] Since then, she worked for a lot of productions at the Stage Door Theater. She appeared in numerous commercials and has small roles on Ghost Whisperer, Medical Investigation, Huff and Joan of Arcadia. Her bigger roles in television have been in Without a Trace and other shows. She has also been heard in the animated movies Finding Nemo and Ice Age: The Meltdown. She played child role of Keira Knightley's character in the film The Jacket, and had a small flashback role in the film Superbad. She was a regular cast member on the FOX game show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and played the role of Gracie Carr on FOX's sitcom Back to You.
Marano has since appeared in several episodes of The Sarah Silverman Program. Initially she was cast in the pilot episode, "Batteries", as the child version of Sarah Silverman, and the writers liked her so much they brought her back for a larger role as a girl Sarah coaches to win a beauty pageant ("Not Without My Daughter"). On the DVD commentary track, co-star Brian Posehn notes that Marano knew everyone else's lines better than they did. She has also appeared in Dexter as the child version of Debra Morgan. She has also played the child version of a character played by Diana Scarwid, Alice Shaw, sister of Angela Petrelli, on Heroes. She currently plays "Ally Dawson" on the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally.
Marano revealed that she doesn’t go to school on the set of Disney Channel’s “Austin & Ally". Instead, she attends a regular high school "I go to an actual high school and my friends and everybody there have been so supportive [...] It’s nice when I’m not working to go to that school and be surrounded by really supportive friends." Marano sings, dances and writes songs and hopes to perform in stage musicals in the future.
Filmography[]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | The Jacket | Young Jackie | Supporting role |
| 2006 | Ice Age: The Meltdown | Various | Uncredited; Additional Voices |
| 2007 | Goldfish | Suzy | Short film |
| 2007 | Superbad | Young Becca | Supporting role |
| 2010 | Telepathic | Marsha | Television movie |
| 2015 | Bad Hair Day | Monica | Lead; television film |
| 2015 | A Sort of Homecoming | Young Amy | Lead |
| 2015 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip | Hotel Babysitter | |
| 2016 | Pop Star Christmas | Jazz Brown | Lead |
| 2019 | The Perfect Date | Cecelia "Celia" Lieberman | Netflix film |
| 2019 | Saving Zoe | Echo | |
| 2019 | A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish | Kat |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003—2006 | Without a Trace | Kate Malone | Recurring role; 8 episodes |
| 2004 | Joan of Arcadia | Emily | "Night without Stars" (Season 1, Episode 15) |
| 2005 | Medical Investigation | Brooke Beck | "Tribe" (Season 1, Episode 13) |
| 2005 | The X's | Scout (voice) | TV series |
| 2006 | Ghost Whisperer | Audrey | "Friendly Neighborhood Ghost" (Season 1, Episode 13) |
| 2006 | Huff | Amelia | "Black Shadows" (Season 2, Episode 12) |
| 2006 | Dexter | Young Debra | "Let's Give the Boy a Hand" (Season 1, Episode 4) Episode: "Father Knows Best" (Season 1, Episode 9) |
| 2007 | Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader | Herself | Season 1 |
| 2007—2008 | Back to You | Gracie Carr | "Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 1) "First Supper" (Season 1, Episode 3) "Gracie's Bully" (Season 1, Episode 6) "Something's Up There" (Season 1, Episode 7) "Cradle to Grave" (Season 1, Episode 8) |
| 2007—2010 | Sarah Silverman Program | Young Sarah Silverman / Heather Silverman | Recurring role; 6 episodes |
| 2008 | Ni Hao, Kai-Lan | Mei Mei | Season 1 |
| 2008 | Gary Unmarried | Louise Brooks | "Pilot" (Season 1, Episode 8) "Gary Gets Boundaries" (Season 1, Episode 2) |
| 2009 | Heroes | Young Alice Shaw | "1961" (Season 3, Episode 23) |
| 2009 | Little Monk | Cousin Lauren | "Little Monk and the Monk Cousin" (Season 1, Episode 5) |
| 2010 | True Jackson, VP | Molly | "True Drama" (Season 2, Episode 4) "Little Buddies" (Season 2, Episode 6) |
| 2010 | FlashForward | Young Tracy | "Blowback" (Season 1, Episode 13) |
| 2010 | Childrens Hospital | Haley | "Frankfurthers. Allman Brothers. Death, Frankfurters" (Season 2, Episode 7) |
| 2011—2016 | Austin & Ally | Ally Dawson | Lead role; Disney Channel Original Series |
| 2012 | Jessie | Ally Dawson | "Austin & Jessie & Ally All Star New Year" (Season 2, Episode 6) |
| 2014 | Fish Hooks | Episode: "Algae Day" | |
| 2014 | Liv and Maddie | Fangs | Episode: "Howl-A-Rooney" |
| 2014 | Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja | Rachel | Recurring episodes |
Trivia[]
- She attends a regular high school when she is offset.
- She loves GoGurt.
- It is rumored that her first kiss was with her co-star, Ross Lynch.
- Her sister Vanessa Marano is a main character on Switched at Birth.
- She loves Harry Potter.
