"Bella Thorne"

Annabella Avery "Bella" Thorne (born October 8, 1997) is an American actress, singer, model, and dancer. She is best known for her roles as Ruthy Spivey in the TV series My Own Worst Enemy, Tancy Henrickson in the fourth season of Big Love, and CeCe Jones on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up. She appeared in the 2014 film Blended as Hilary / "Larry".

Bella Thorne was born on October 8, 1997, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, the daughter of Tamara and Delancey Reinaldo "Rey" Thorne. She is the youngest of four children; Kaili (born February 19, 1992), Danielle "Dani" (born January 19, 1993), and Remy (born December 22, 1995); all of whom are also actors. Her father was of Cuban descent, and Thorne has stated that she also has Italian and Irish ancestry. She enjoyed a career as a child model.

Thorne's first film appearance was an uncredited role as a sidelines fan in the 2003 film Stuck on You. She has since appeared in film and television projects including Entourage and The O.C. as a younger version of Taylor Townsend. In 2007 she joined the recurring cast of Dirty Sexy Money's second season, her first major television role. She played Margaux Darling. The series revolves around lawyer and family man Nick George, when Nick's father mysteriously dies in a plane crash, he agrees to take his position as the Darling family's lawyer, while trying to discover who committed the murder. In 2008, Thorne starred alongside Christian Slater and Taylor Lautner in the short-lived drama series My Own Worst Enemy, for which she won a Young Artist's Award for her portrayal of the character Ruthy Spivey; Thorne described her Enemy casting as a major breakthrough as this was the first recurring role in her career. In 2008 she starring the third-last episode of October Road as Angela Ferilli, the pre-adolescence crush of the main characters. Her older brother Remy also guest-starred in the same episode as a younger Eddie Latekka.

In 2009 she starred the web series Little Monk, which depicted characters from the series Monk as Wendy, one of the Monks' classmates. The webisodes are available only on the "Best of Monk" DVD. Also in 2009, she played the role of the vengeful antagonist in the horror film Forget Me Not. In addition, Thorne took on a supporting role in the family drama Raspberry Magic, the movie premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival in 2010.

In 2010, Thorne replaced Jolean Wejbe as Tancy "Teenie" Henrickson, Bill and Barb's younger daughter in Season 4 of HBO's Big Love. Thorne starring as co-star on the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up, originally titled Dance, Dance Chicago. Thorne plays CeCe Jones, a dancer with heavy ambitions for a career in the spotlight despite having dyslexia. The show is a buddy comedy centered around a teen dance show (in a show-within-a-show format) co-starring Thorne and Zendaya. The multi-camera series began production in Hollywood, California, in July 2010 and premiered on November 7, 2010 on Disney Channel. While she had a substantial portfolio of work in television and film, Thorne had no experience in professional dancing before being cast. After signing onto the show in October 2009, she began taking three dance classes every night. Thorne's first single, Watch Me was released on June 21, reaching 86 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts., 9 on the US Top Heatseekers charts and earning RIAA: Gold.

On September 29, 2011, Disney Channel announced it had increased Shake It Up's second season order to 26 episodes. A 90-minute special episode "Made In Japan" aired August 17, 2012 as the season two finale. On June 4, 2012, Disney Channel announced that Shake It Up was renewed for a third season In 2012, Thorne was cast as Avalon Greene in the Disney Channel Original Movie Frenemies. "TTYLXOX" was released on March 6, reaching 97 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts. On March 30, 2013, it was confirmed by Hollywood Records via Twitter that Bella was officially signed to the record label. On July 25, the Disney Channel confirmed that Shake It Up would be canceled after the end of the third season.

On 23 April 2013, Thorne announced her debut album, Call It Whatever, with eleven songs. Thorne spoke about the album, saying "What fans can expect is [for it] just to be very different from anyone, because I don’t like to be one of those artists where you can be like: 'Oh yeah, I know them from that song.’ All my songs are very different from each other. So I don’t want to be known as only one genre.”

In 2014 Thorne co-starred in the comedy Blended, along with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore as Sandler’s character's daughter. She will play Jamie, a disillusioned teenager intensely guarding a personal secret in the film Home Invasion. Thorne has now signed on along with Kyra Sedgwick as the leads in Manis Film's thriller Big Sky, Thorne plays Hazel. On April 30, 2014, Thorne signed on to appear in the film The Duff as the main Antagonist. On May 14, she released her debut single, "Call It Whatever". The official music premiering on Vevo on May 29 and the song debuted in the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart at number forty-seven then eventually rose to peak position at number ten.

On July 30, Thorne featured in an episode of the fifteenth season of the hit CBS crime drama, CSI. The episode, "The Book of Shadows," aired October 19, 2014. In 2014, Thorne signed on to appear in the sequel Mostly Ghostly 2: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend as Cammy Cahill the love interest of Ryan Ochoa's character Max Doyle which will be broadcast as a Halloween special in October 2014. On October 15, Thorne revealed her debut album was canceled and she will release an EP, Jersey, on November 17. It was reported that Thorne had signed a new deal to write series of books, beginning with her first novel Autumn Falls, which is expected to come out in the summer of 2014. On December 12, Thorne was casted in the MTV series Scream which is the television adaptation based on the original slasher film series Scream.

Thorne's musical influences consist of hip-hop, bubblegum pop, 1980s pop, dance music, R&B and Indie. Thorne cited Kesha and Destiny's Child as the main musical influences. Thorne has additional cited Usher and Joan Jett as influences. Thorne has drawn comparisons to Ke$ha, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez. Thorne cites Katy Perry as her musical inspiration.

Originally from Pembroke Pines, Florida, Thorne has been living with her family in California since early 2006. Her interests include dancing, playing soccer, spending time with her family and playing with her two dogs, a Cocker Spaniel and a wolf hybrid, six cats and a turtle. She also admits to being a collector of hardcover books, listening to 1980s music, and using YouTube as a research tool for getting into character. Thorne lost her father to a vehicle accident in 2007. Thorne disclosed her father's death in a live interview on the local television talk show View from the Bay in December 2008.

Thorne was diagnosed with dyslexia in the first grade. She is currently being home-schooled after previously attending a public school, where she had suffered peer abuse. Thorne improved in her learning after attending a Sylvan Learning center and is currently reading and writing a grade ahead. Thorne also talked about her dyslexia in an April 2010 interview with American Cheerleader Magazine, and explained that she overcame her dyslexia by rigorously reading everything she could find, including the labels of cereal boxes. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Thorne is currently dating Tristan Klier. The two started dating in December 2011 and Bella went to Klier's prom in April 2014. However, the two briefly split in August 2014 but later reconciled and got back together in October 2014 and Bella also attended his homecoming dance later that month.

Thorne is an avid supporter of the Humane Society, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and The Nomad Organization, which provides education, food and medical supplies to children in Africa. Thorne is ambassador for Neutrogena and regularly promotes its Oil-Free Acne Wash Pink Grapefruit Facial Cleanser.

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Stuck on You	MC Sideline
2007	Craw Lake	Julia	Short film
2007	Finishing the Game	Sue
2007	Blind Ambition	Annabella
2007	The Seer	Claire Sue (Young)
2009	Water Pills	Psych Out Girl	Short film
2009	Forget Me Not	Angela Smith (Young)
2010	'One Wish	The Messenger
2010	Raspberry Magic	Sarah Patterson
2012	Frenemies	Avalon Greene	Television film
2012	Zendaya: Behind the Scenes	Herself	Documentary
2014	Blended	Hilary "Larry" Friedman
2014	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Celia Rodriguez
2014	Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend?	Cammy Cahill
2015	Amityville: The Awakening	Belle Jones
2015	The Duff	Madison Carter
2015	Big Sky	Hazel	Post-production
2015	Home Invasion	Jamie	Post-production
2015	Underdogs	Young Laura	Voice; post-production
2015	The Snow Queen: The Snow King	Gerda	Voice; post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Entourage	Kid	"I Wanna Be Sedated" (Season 3: episode 10)
2007	The O.C.	Young Taylor Townsend	"The Case of the Franks" (Season 4: episode 13)
2007–08	Dirty Sexy Money	Margaux Darling	Recurring role (Season 2)
2008	October Road	Angela Ferilli	"Stand Alone by Me" (Season 2: episode 11)
2008	My Own Worst Enemy	Ruthy Spivey	Main role
2009	In the Motherhood	Annie	"Practice What You Preach" (Season 2: episode 11)
2009	Mental	Emily	"Pilot" (Season 1: episode 1)
2010	Big Love	Tancy "Teenie" Henrickson	Recurring role (Season 4)
2010	Wizards of Waverly Place	Nancy Lukey	"Max's Secret Girlfriend" (Season 3: episode 19)
2010–13	Shake It Up	CeCe Jones	Main role
2011	Good Luck Charlie		"Charlie Shakes It Up" (Season 2: episode 13)
2011	PrankStars	Herself	"Adventures in Dogsitting" (Season 1: episode 5)
2014	Phineas and Ferb	Brigitte	Voice; "Night of the Living Pharmacists " (Season 4: episode 30)
2014	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Hannah Hunt	"The Book of Shadows" (Season 15: Episode 4)
2014	Red Band Society	Delaney Shaw	"How Did We Get Here?" (Season 1: episode 09) "What I Did For Love" (Season 1: episode 10)
2015	K.C. Undercover	Bayle	"Spy-Anoia Will Destroy Ya" (Season 1: episode 5)
2015	Scream	Nina	Main role

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Little Monk	Wendy	Main role; Web-series
2010	My Day. My Life	Herself	Documentary at Teen website

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Alice in Wonderland	Alice	March 12–May 3

Extended plays

• Made in Japan (2012)
• Jersey (2014)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2008	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress	The O.C.	Nominated
2009			October Road
		Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedia o Drama) - Supporting Young Actress	My Own Worst Enemy	Won
2010		Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress	Mental	Nominated
2011	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) – Leading Young Actress	Shake It Up	Won
		Outstanding Young Ensemble in a TV Series (shared with cast)		Nominated
		Best Performance in a TV Series - Guest Starring Young Actress 11-15	Wizards of Waverly Place
		Best Performance in a TV Series - Recurring Young Actress 11-16	Big Love
	Imagen Awards	Best Young Actress – Television	Shake It Up
2012	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Series – Leading Young Actress
		Outstanding Young Ensemble in a TV Series (shared with cast)
	Imagen Awards	Best Young Actress - Television		Won
	ALMA Awards	Favorite TV Actress – Comedy
2013	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a TV Movie, MiniSeries, Special or Pilot - Leading Young Actress	Frenemies
	Young Hollywood Awards	One to Watch	Herself
2014	Young Hollywood Awards	You're So Fancy
		Best Social Media Superstar		Nominated

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