Birth Name: Carly Brook Schroeder

Category: Actress

Born: October 18, 1990

Location: Valparaiso, Indiana, USA

Age: 19

Astrological Sign: Libra

Zodiac Year: Horse

Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Grade Level: Graduated in 2009

Hair: Blonde

Eyes: Blue-Green

Filmography:
Slightly Single in L.A. (2010) .... Becca
Forget Me Not (2009/II) .... Sandy Channing
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" - Crush (2009) TV episode .... Kim Garnet
Prayers for Bobby (2009) (TV) .... Joy Griffith
"Ghost Whisperer" - Home But Not Alone (2008) TV episode .... Lisa Benzing
Gracie (2007) .... Gracie Bowen
Prey (2006) .... Jessica Newman
Eye of the Dolphin (2006) .... Alyssa
Firewall (2006) .... Sarah Stanfield
We All Fall Down (2005/I) .... Charity
"Cold Case" - The Sleepover (2004) TV Episode .... Brandi Beaudry 1990
Mean Creek (2004) .... Millie
"Lizzie McGuire" (2001-2004) TV Series .... Melina Bianco (2002-2003)
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) .... Melina Bianco
"George Lopez" - Token of Unappreciation (2002) TV Episode .... Ashley
"Web Girl" (2001) TV Series .... Jennifer Collins
"Dawson's Creek" .... Molly Sey (2 episodes, 2000)
Growing Up Brady (2000) (TV) .... Susan Olsen
Toy Story 2 (1999) (voice) .... Additional Voices
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) (voice) .... Additional Voices
"Port Charles" (1997) TV Series .... Serena Baldwin (1997-2003)

Biography:
Carly Brook Schroeder (born October 18, 1990) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for playing Serena Baldwin, the daughter of Scotty Baldwin and Lucy Coe in the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles. She also had a recurring role on the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire. In 2007, she played the lead in Gracie, a film inspired by a real-life tragedy during the childhood of actors Elisabeth Shue and Andrew Shue.
Schroeder was born in Valparaiso, Indiana. Carly's younger brother, Hunter Schroeder, is also an actor; he has appeared with her in Gracie and Eye of the Dolphin. Her parents Paul and Kelli Schroeder currently reside in Ventura Co., California. In 1993, while accompanying a cousin to an acting audition, the casting director asked if the cute three-year old would consider working for them. At first her mother was hesitant about the question but things such as money for a college education began to appeal to her. After her first job as a child print model, she began doing print work in Chicago for Sears, Roebuck and Company, Kmart, Spiegel, Land's End, Chuck E. Cheese's, and many other print advertisers. Two years later in 1995, child director Bob Ebel asked her to do a few television commercials.
In 1997, American Broadcasting Company (ABC) hired Schroeder to play Serena Baldwin on General Hospital. She was twice nominated for a Young Artist Award for her work on the show; once in 1999 and again in 2000, as well as a Young Star Award nomination in 1999 for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Daytime TV Program.
Schroeder on the set of Lizzie McGuire. (2002)Schroeder then appeared as Melina Bianco in The Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire. Originally booked as a one-time appearance, she shot twelve episodes of the show and also appeared in The Lizzie McGuire Movie in 2003, in the same role.
In 2003, Schroeder auditioned for her first feature film and won the part of Millie in the thriller Mean Creek. The movie won wide acclaim for Schroeder and the rest of the cast, winning the Humanitas Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and also being awarded the 2005 Independent Spirit Festival Special Distinction Award for best ensemble cast.
Gracie was Shroeder's next film role, in 2006. In order to win the role, she began an intense three-month work-out that included a daily regime of not only physical fitness, but training in advanced soccer skills with professional athletes and trainers.
While Gracie was in theaters, Schroeder's other movie, Eye of the Dolphin, was receiving attention, winning two awards from the 2007 International Family Film Festival: a Best Child Actor win for Schroeder, and a Drama Feature win for the movie. The movie has been well received and continues to receive honors, including being named as an Official Selection for the Tribeca Film Festival, Delray Beach Film Festival, Kids First! Film Festival, Tiburon Film Festival, USA Family Film Festival and the Worldfest Houston Film festival.
At the 2007 Kids First Awards in October, Schroeder received the award for Best Emerging Actress, while the film received the Best Feature Award (ages 12-18).
Her most recent movies are "Forget Me Not" (2009), which premiered on Oct. 22, 2009 at Grauman's Chinese Theater 6 in Hollywood, CA, and "Slightly Single in L.A." (2010), which completed filming on Dec. 19, 2009.
Schroeder recently graduated from high school in June 2009. She is currently attending college and has a double major in communications and psychology, with a minor in theater.

Trivia:
Remains close to the cast of Mean Creek (2004), in which she starred.
She was on the A-list for children actors in W magazine (February 2005) issue.
Not only did actor Kin Shriner discover her by asking that she play his daughter Serena in the soap operas "General Hospital" (1963) and "Port Charles" (1997) after seeing her in a commercial, he also named his boat the "Serena" after the character that she portrayed.
Grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana, but when she was seven moved out to Thousand Oaks, California when she got the part as Serena Baldwin, on "General Hospital" (1963) and "Port Charles" (1997).
Is good friends with her "Lizzie McGuire" (2001) co-star Jake Thomas.
Was cast as Cassie in RV, but had to drop out due to filming conflicts.
Co-starred with her younger brother, Hunter Schroeder, in her new movie Gracie (2007).
Twice has played a character who loves to play soccer, but has to fight to prove herself to her male-dominated team in "Dawson's Creek" (1998) and Gracie (2007).
Was only supposed to do one show of "Lizzie McGuire" (2001). Producers liked Carly's interpretation of Melina so they wrote her into the show.
She enjoys sports, including baseball, scuba diving, karate, surfing, grappling, soccer and horseback riding.
Received Best Emerging Actress award from Kids First Awards (October 2007).
Is of German descent.
Is of no relation to Rick Schroder, although asked many times.
Was originally slated to reprise her role as Alyssa in the Eye of the Dolphin (2006) sequel Beneath the Blue (2009), but was unable to star when scheduling conflicts arose with two other projects.
Dyed her trademark platinum-blonde hair brown for her role as Joy Griffith in the Lifetime movie Prayers for Bobby (2009) (TV).

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Page Last Updated: 14 June 2010