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Singer-songwriter and actress known for her hit songs 'Drivers License' and 'Vampire', and her roles in Disney Channel series 'Bizaardvark' and Disney+ series 'High School Musical: The Musical: The Series'.
Bio Dates and Places
Born Date: February 20, 2003.
Born Place: Murrieta, California, U.S.
Career
Current occupation: Singer-songwriter and actress.
Past occupations: Child actor on Disney Channel series 'Bizaardvark' and Disney+ series 'High School Musical: The Musical: The Series'.
Current Place of Work: Geffen Records.
Previous Place of Work: Disney Channel and Disney+.
Achievements and Recognition
Awards: Three Grammy Awards, an American Music Award, seven Billboard Music Awards, and four MTV Video Music Awards.
Skills
Singing, songwriting, acting.
Languages
Languages Spoken: English.
Relationships
Past Romantic Relationships: Associate relationship with Joshua Bassett and Chappell Roan.
Family
Parents: Jennifer (mother, a teacher) and Chris (father, a family and marriage therapist).
Main Milestones
Birth
February 20, 2003
Olivia Isabel Rodrigo was born in Murrieta, California, to a family therapist father of Filipino heritage and a teacher mother of German and Irish ancestry.
Early Acting Career
2015
Rodrigo began her acting career by winning the lead role in a musical, setting the stage for her future in the entertainment industry.
Bizaardvark
2016-2018
Olivia starred as Paige Olvera in the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark, playing one of two best friends who post funny songs and videos on the internet.
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
2019
Rodrigo took on the main role of Nini Salazar-Roberts in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, a musical theatre enthusiast, and also wrote the song 'All I Want' for the TV show.
Debut Single 'Drivers License'
2021
Olivia released her debut single 'Drivers License', which went to Number 1 around the world and broke Spotify records for the most streams of a non-holiday song in a day and a week.
Debut Album 'Sour'
2021
Rodrigo released her debut album 'Sour', which features a blend of pop, folk, and alternative rock influences and includes hits like 'Deja Vu'. The album won several awards, including the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Grammy Awards
2022
Olivia won three Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, Best Pop Solo Performance for 'Drivers License', and Best Pop Vocal Album for 'Sour'.
Sour Tour
2022
Rodrigo embarked on her 'Sour Tour', performing in various cities including Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, and London in the UK.
Comeback Song 'Vampire'
2023
Olivia released her comeback song 'Vampire', which peaked at Number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and was certified Silver in August 2023.
The Hunger Games Soundtrack
2023
Rodrigo released her song 'Can't Catch Me Now' for the soundtrack of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.
Latest Song 'Obsessed'
2024
Olivia released her latest song 'Obsessed' on March 22, 2024, which reached Number 10 in the UK.
American Express presents BST Hyde Park 2025
2025
Rodrigo is set to headline American Express presents BST Hyde Park 2025 on June 27, 2025, with special guests The Last Dinner Party and girl in red, marking her biggest UK show yet.
Olivia Rodrigo speaks on youth vaccination. Recorded July 14, 2021.
Signature
Shifting focus onto her recording career, Rodrigo signed with Geffen Records to release her 2021 single "Drivers License", which peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks and raised her to international prominence. That same year, she released her debut studio album, Sour, which spawned her second number-one song "Good 4 U" and the similarly successful singles "Deja Vu", "Traitor", and "Brutal". A documentary, Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U, was released the following year, and chronicles the creative process of Sour. In 2023, she released her second studio album, Guts, supported by her third number-one song "Vampire" and the singles "Bad Idea Right?", and "Get Him Back!"
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 she was playing guitar by age 12.[17] In May 2010, at age seven, she first appeared onscreen in an Old Navy commercial.[18][19]
In 2015, at age twelve, Rodrigo made her acting debut portraying the lead role of Grace Thomas in the direct-to-video film An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success.[20] 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][21] Starring as the character Paige Olvera, a guitarist, she played the role for three seasons.[22][23][24][25]
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.[26] Rodrigo was praised for her performance,[27][28] with Joel Keller from Decider describing her as "especially magnetic".[29] For the series, Rodrigo wrote and performed the promotional single "All I Want", released in November 2019.[30][31] She left the show at the end of its third season to focus on her music career.[32]
Rodrigo signed with Geffen Records in 2020.[33] She negotiated the record deal to secure for herself ownership of the masters of her music.[4] On January 8, 2021, she released her debut single, "Drivers License", which she co-wrote with producer Dan Nigro.[34][35] Within the week of its release, "Drivers License" was critically acclaimed,[36] and broke Spotify's record twice for most daily streams ever for a non-holiday song with over 15.7 million global streams on January 11 and over 17 million global streams the next day.[37][38] It went on to break another Spotify record for the first song in history to hit 80 million streams in seven days.[39] The song debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100,[40] and reached number-one in numerous other countries.[41][42] Rodrigo stated in an interview that "It's been the absolute craziest week of my life ... My entire life just, like, shifted in an instant."[43]
On April 1, 2021, Rodrigo released her follow-up single, "Deja Vu", which debuted at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100,[44] making her the first artist to debut their first two releases in the top 10 of the Hot 100.[45] The third single preceding her debut album, "Good 4 U", followed on May 14, 2021, and became her second single to debut at number one on the Hot 100.[46][47]Sour, her debut studio album, was released on May 21, 2021, to critical acclaim.[48]Slate's Chris Molanphy said its first three singles alone established Rodrigo's "early status as Gen-Z's most versatile new artist".[49] According to Clash critic Robin Murray, Rodrigo is regarded as one of Generation Z's finest artists,[50] while Variety dubbed her "the voice of her generation" in its cover story of Rodrigo.[13]Sour debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and spent a total of five weeks at the spot, becoming the longest reigning number-one album by a female artist in 2021.[51]
In June 2021, Rodrigo premiered Sour Prom, a prom-themed concert film on YouTube.[52] Three days later, Time named her Entertainer of the Year.[53] In an Instagram post on December 24, 2021, Rodrigo uploaded a snippet of a Christmas song called "The Bels" that she wrote and recorded at age five.[54][55] According to Billboard, Rodrigo closed 2021 as the bestselling singles artist worldwide,[56] while placing eight songs on the year-end Global 200 chart, including "Drivers License" at number four, "Good 4 U" at number nine, and "Deja Vu" at number 27.[57] In the US and UK, Sour was respectively the third and fourth bestselling album of 2021.[58][59]Sour and "Drivers License" were also respectively Spotify's most streamed album and song globally.[60] The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) ranked Rodrigo as the tenth best selling artist of 2021 and Sour as the second bestselling album of 2021.[61] To support Sour, Rodrigo embarked on her debut headlining tour, the Sour Tour, which ran from April to July 2022; it included stops in the United States, Canada, and Europe.[62]
On August 16, 2023, Rodrigo became the youngest artist to receive the BRIT Billion Award for achieving over one billion digital streams in the United Kingdom. She was the 19th artist to receive a BRIT Billion Award.[67] Rodrigo's second album, Guts, was released on September 8, 2023, and debuted atop the Billboard 200. She stated that the album was about "growing pains" and self-discovery. Going into the album cycle, she felt that she had grown "ten years" between the ages of 18 and 20.[68]Guts received critical acclaim from various outlets and was later declared by BBC News as the most critically acclaimed album of 2023.[69] The album's lead single, "Vampire", was released on June 30, becoming Rodrigo's third single to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100, making her the first artist ever to debut the lead singles from two career-opening albums at No. 1 on the Hot 100.[70][71][72] The album's second single, "Bad Idea Right?", was released on August 11, 2023,[73] reaching the top 10 in the US and UK.[74][75]
To support Guts, Rodrigo embarked on her second headlining tour, the Guts World Tour, which ran from February 2024 to July 2025 in North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania.[81][82]
On March 20, 2024, Rodrigo announced that she would release a deluxe version of Guts with five additional songs, including the four secret tracks from the vinyl variants. She released Guts (Spilled) on March 22, 2024.[83] On April 13, 2024, Rodrigo made a special guest appearance at No Doubt's Coachella show, where she performed the band's 2000 single "Bathwater" alongside them.[84] On October 2, 2024, Rodrigo announced the release of the Guts World Tour concert film. It was released on October 29, 2024, on Netflix.[85]
Rodrigo's voice type is soprano.[104][105] Media outlets generally describe her music as pop,[106][107]pop rock,[108]alt-pop,[109]teen pop,[110]indie pop,[111] and 1990's alternative rock.[107] Rodrigo stated that she wants to be a songwriter and not "the biggest pop star that ever lived", and she chose to sign with Interscope/Geffen Records because its CEO John Janick praised her songwriting, not her "potential star quality".[4] Music journalist Laura Snapes called Rodrigo a "flag-bearer" for a new wave of songwriters who incline towards power ballads "that are as emotional as ever, but project that emotion inward, trading bombast for hush", and described her musical style as rooted in heartache, mental health, and sadness, without being melodramatic, expressing more realistic perspectives than resilient.[112]
Rodrigo was announced as brand ambassador of the phone accessory company Casetify, under a year-long partnership, in December 2021. She creative directed the "Hardened Hearts" phone case collection, which was inspired by her debut album, Sour, and the '90s and Y2K visual aesthetics.[113] She became consumer beauty brand Glossier's first ever celebrity partner in April 2022.[114] Rodrigo collaborated with Sony Electronics to release a special edition of their true wireless Linkbuds S earbuds in September 2023.[115] She and Health-Ade introduced the "Good 4 Ur Guts" smoothie in December 2023—which was available in Erewhon Market stores through January 14, 2024.[116] In November 2024, Rodrigo became the global brand ambassador for Lancôme.[117]
Rodrigo and her Bizaardvark co-star Madison Hu teamed up with Instagram #KindComments to encourage their fans to spread kindness and foster positivity on social media from 2017 to 2018.[118][119][120] Rodrigo and Hu further teamed up with non-profit organization My Friend's Place for their 30th anniversary, to help homeless youth find shelter, food, work, education, and healthcare.[121] The event was hosted by Jack Black and raised over $740,000 for local homeless youth.[122] Also in 2018, Rodrigo was named an institute speaker and panelist for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.[16][123] In December that year, she became the face of "She Can STEM" campaign.[124][125][126]
In February 2021, Rodrigo released her merchandise line, "Spicy Pisces T-shirts", on her website, with all proceeds benefitting the non-governmental organization She's the First which sponsors young girls' scholarship and education.[127][128] In June 2021, she sold her clothes, wardrobe and all items from her music videos on Depop and 100% of all proceeds from 'Sour Shop' was donated to charitable organization.[129][130][131] Rodrigo donated a portion of her Sour Tour platinum ticket sales to Women for Women International which supports female survivors of war by helping them rebuild their lives after war devastation.[132] On November 18, 2021, she donated a signed Gibson guitar to #VenturesIntoCures program for auction and all proceeds went to life-saving research to treat and cure epidermolysis bullosa.[133][134] The following month, she joined Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Billy Porter with Musicians on Call in the 2nd Annual Virtual Concert "Hope for the Holidays" to bring Christmas cheer by uplifting performances and messages of hope to hospital patients via virtual concert.[135][136]
On July 13, 2021, Rodrigo was involved in a White House effort to promote COVID-19 vaccinations among young people in the U.S. She met with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Chief Medical AdvisorAnthony Fauci, to discuss her efforts.[137][138][139]CNN reported that Rodrigo would record videos about the importance of young people getting vaccinated, including answering questions the youth have regarding the vaccination.[137]
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, Rodrigo performed "Fuck You", with British singer Lily Allen, at Glastonbury Festival.[140] She prefaced the performance by dedicating it to the associate justices who voted to overturn Roe, saying "I'm devastated and terrified. So many women and so many girls are going to die because of this. I wanted to dedicate this next song to the five members of the Supreme Court who have showed us that at the end of the day, they truly don't give a shit about freedom. The song is for the justices."[141]
On November 20, 2022, Rodrigo joined other celebrities, co-founders Eddie Vedder and Jill Vedder for the Third Annual Venture Fundraising event which helped raise more than $1.3 million that month and $6 million for the next three years to find a cure for epidermolysis bullosa and other rare diseases.[142][143][144][145] In December 2022, Rodrigo joined Chris Stapleton, Selena Gomez, and more to donate exclusive items to the 2nd Annual ASCAP Foundation, which supports music education and talent development programs across the U.S.[146][147] In the same month, Rodrigo took part in that year's annual virtual concert, 'Musicians on Call' with 30 different artists which brought holiday classic performances and videos of messages of hope to patients, families and health-workers in more than 5,000 hospitals nationwide.[148][149] In January 2023, Rodrigo joined various musicians in donating items to the MusiCares Foundation Charity Relief Auction to help struggling musicians with their financial needs.[150][151]
In October 2024, Rodrigo donated all net proceeds from her sold-out Philippines concert to Jhpiego, a women's health organization with decades of lifesaving work in the Philippines.[163][164]
^Spangler, Todd (February 1, 2016). "Amazon Orders 4 'American Girl' Live-Action Specials". Variety. Archived from the original on December 18, 2016. Retrieved February 5, 2017. Last year's "An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success," based on the 2015 Girl of the Year, Grace Thomas, starred Olivia Rodrigo.
Levenfield, Lauri (November 16, 2016). "Olivia Rodrigo, Actress". Project for Women. Archived from the original on October 8, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
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