Olivia Isabel Rodrigo[1] was born on February 20, 2003,[2] in Murrieta, California, to Jennifer, a school teacher, and Chris, a family therapist.[3][4][5] An only child,[4] she grew up in neighboring Temecula.[6] Rodrigo was born half-deaf in her left ear.[7] Rodrigo identifies as Filipino American.[8][9][10] Her grandfather and one of her paternal great-grandfathers both emigrated from the Philippines, and her family follows Filipino traditions and cuisine.[9][11] Her mother has German and Irish ancestry.[4][12] She grew up listening to her parents' favorite alternative rockmusic, such as the bands No Doubt, Pearl Jam, the White Stripes, and Green Day.[13]

Rodrigo attended Lisa J. Mails Elementary School in Murrieta, participating in their after-school musical theater program.[14] At age five, her parents signed her up for vocal lessons with Jennifer Dustman, who would begin to enroll Rodrigo in various local singing competitions.[15]Under the advisement of Dustman her parents enrolled her in acting lessons.[16][15][17] She began taking piano lessons at age 9.[17][15]Rodrigo first became interested in songwriting after listening to country music songs by Taylor Swift,[13] and was playing guitar by age 12.[17] In 2010, at age seven, she first appeared onscreen in an Old Navy commercial.[18][19][20]

In 2015, at age twelve, Rodrigo made her acting debut portraying the lead role of Grace Thomas in direct-to-video film An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success.[21] She attended Dorothy McElhinney Middle School in Murrieta for a year, until moving to Los Angeles after landing an acting role in Disney Channel's Bizaardvark in 2016;[14] she was homeschooled from then until her graduation in 2021.[4][22] Starring as the character Paige Olvera, a guitarist, she played the role for three seasons.[23][24][25][26]

In February 2019, she was cast in the starring role of Nini Salazar-Roberts on the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, which premiered in November of that year.[27]Rodrigo was praised for her performance,[28][29]with Joel Keller from Decider describing her as "especially magnetic".[30] For the series, Rodrigo wrote and performed the promotional single "All I Want", released in November 2019.[31][32] She left the show at the end of its third season to focus on her music career.[33]

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