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My Take
I find Dove Cameron's career genuinely instructive about escaping the Disney Channel gravity well. Playing twins on Liv and Maddie was a technical feat that won her a Daytime Emmy, and Descendants made her a global teen idol, but the pivot to dark, confessional pop, capped by an MTV Best New Artist win in 2022, was the bolder move. She chose her own name, rebuilt her image from scratch, and kept a child performer's discipline while shedding the packaging. At barely 157 centimeters she carries an outsized will to reinvent herself, and I suspect her most interesting chapter is still ahead.
Overview
Dove Olivia Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman; January 15, 1996) is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame for her dual role of the eponymous characters in Disney Channel's comedy series Liv and Maddie (2013–2017) and her leading role in the network's Descendants film franchise (2015–2021); the former won her the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Dove Cameron
- Name (Japanese)
- ダヴ・キャメロン
- Reading
- だゔ・きゃめろん
- Born
- January 15, 1996 (age 30)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Rat
- Origin
- Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 157 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- model / film actor / television actor / stage actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Bainbridge High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2019 Daytime Emmy Award
- American Music Award for New Artist of the Year
- 2022 Out100
- 2023 BMI Film & TV Awards
- 2023 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist
- 2023 Gold Derby Awards
- 2022 MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist
- 2023 MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Social Message
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Liv and Maddie | — | |
| Notable work | Descendants | — | |
| Notable work | Cloud 9 | — | |
| Notable work | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | — | |
| Notable work | Hairspray Live! | — | |
| Notable work | Shameless | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.