Rowan Blanchard
Blanchard in 2015
Born (2001-10-14) October 14, 2001
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active2006–present[1]

Rowan Blanchard (born October 14, 2001[2][3]) is an American actress. She was included on a list of Time's list of Most Influential Teens in 2015.[4][5] She first became known for starring as Rebecca Wilson in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (2011), and had her breakthrough portraying Riley Matthews on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World (2014–2017), both of which earned her Young Artist Award nominations. She has since had roles as Jackie Geary on the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs (2017–2018), and Alexandra Cavill in the TNT series Snowpiercer (2020–2022).[6]

Early life

Blanchard was born in Los Angeles, California,[2] to Elizabeth and Mark Blanchard-Boulbol, who are yoga instructors.[7][8] Her great grandfather was Syrian;[9] whereas her great grandmother was Armenian.[10] Her paternal great-grandparents met in Aleppo, present-day Syria.[11][12] She was named after a character in Anne Rice's The Witching Hour.[13] Rowan has two younger siblings, Carmen and Shane.[14]

Career

Blanchard began acting in 2006 at the age of five,[14] first being cast as Mona's daughter in The Back-up Plan and was in the main cast of the Disney Junior Original Series Dance-a-Lot Robot as Caitlin. In 2011, she was cast as Rebecca Wilson in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, and as Raquel Pacheco in Little in Common.

In late January 2013, Blanchard was cast as Riley Matthews in the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World. She also sings the title song, along with co-star Sabrina Carpenter. The titular character is the daughter of Cory and Topanga from Boy Meets World.[15][16] She was an active member of Disney Channel Circle of Stars.[17] In early January 2015, Blanchard was cast as Cleo in the Disney Channel Original Movie Invisible Sister.[18] From 2017 to 2018, Blanchard had a recurring role on the ABC series The Goldbergs.[19] In September 2017, Blanchard announced that she would be releasing a book, titled Still Here, which was published in February 2018.[20] Blanchard also co-starred in the feature film adaptation A Wrinkle in Time, which was released in March 2018.[21]

On March 27, 2019, it was reported by Deadline Hollywood that Blanchard was cast as Alexandra Cavill in TNT's Snowpiercer, a futuristic thriller starring Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs based on the 2013 South Korean-Czech film of the same name by Bong Joon-ho, from Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios and Turner’s Studio T. Blanchard will be a guest star with an option to become a series regular in the series' second season.[22]

She starred with Auli'i Cravalho in the Hulu movie, Crush, which was released in April 2022.

Personal life

Blanchard in 2017

In 2014, Blanchard had revealed on Instagram that she had been struggling with depression.[23] She wrote: "As I found myself, this year in particular, going through ups and downs with depression, I realized that instead of rejecting and ostracizing these teenage feelings (human feelings), I can learn to love the intensity of them and know that everything is momentary."[23]

In a series of tweets in January 2016, she stated that while she had "only ever liked boys" in the past, she was "open to liking any gender" and therefore she identifies as queer.[24]

Blanchard is an activist on issues such as feminism, human rights, and gun violence. While most of her comments regarding these issues are posted via Twitter or Tumblr, she has spoken at the UN Women and US National Committee's annual conference as part of #TeamHeForShe, a feminist campaign.[25]

In April 2018, Blanchard criticized Israel and its military on her social media and shared her own post with a photo of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi holding the Palestinian flag. In the same post, Blanchard voiced support for the Palestinians during the 2018–2019 Gaza border protests.[26] In May 2018, Blanchard criticized Israel once again in her social media and shared another photo of Tamimi. Blanchard wrote that "Gaza qualifies under every definition of genocide yet massacred protestors must always be identified as 'peaceful'."[27]

Filmography

Film roles
Year Title Role Notes
2010 The Back-up Plan Mona's 7-year-old kid
2011 Little in Common Raquel Pacheco
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World Rebecca Wilson
2016 The Realest Real Paige Short film
2018 A Wrinkle in Time Veronica Kiley
2019 A World Away Jessica
2022 Crush Paige
Television roles
Year Title Role Notes
2010 Dance-a-Lot Robot Caitlin Main role, 5 episodes
2014–2017 Girl Meets World Riley Matthews Lead role, 72 episodes
2015 Best Friends Whenever Riley Matthews 1 episode
2015 Invisible Sister Cleo Television film
2016 Beat Bobby Flay Herself 1 episode
2017–2018 The Goldbergs Jackie Geary Recurring role, 12 episodes
2018 Neo Yokio Bergdorf Chan / Salesclerk 3 / Teenage Girl Voice role, 1 episode
2018–2019 Splitting Up Together China 2 episodes
2020–2022 Snowpiercer Alexandra Cavill Main role, 21 episodes
2022 Ziwe Herself 1 episode
2023 Poker Face Lily Albern 1 episode

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2012 Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a Feature Film — Young Actress Ten and Under Spy Kids: All the Time in the World Nominated [28]
2015 Young Artist Awards Outstanding Young Ensemble in a TV Series Girl Meets World Nominated [29]
2016 Teen Choice Awards Choice Summer TV Star: Female Girl Meets World Nominated [30]
2017 Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Female TV Star Girl Meets World Nominated [31]
2017 Teen Choice Awards Choice Changemaker Herself Nominated [32]

References

  1. ↑ "This is Who I Am: Rowan Blanchard | Girl Meets World | Disney Video". video.disney.com. Archived from the original on June 9, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Rowan Blanchard: "Riley Matthews"". Disney Channel Medianet. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ Kelleher, Jennifer (October 14, 2018). "8 Ways Rowan Blanchard Proved She Was Wise Beyond Her Years". E! News. Archived from the original on October 15, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ "The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2015". Time. Archived from the original on June 26, 2019. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ Lee, Nhi (December 8, 2015). "Cory and Topanga's daughter is one of TIME's "30 Most Influential Teens"". THE EYE. Archived from the original on April 26, 2017. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
  6. ↑ "You Got Zuko'd". Disneyabcpress.com. Archived from the original on October 16, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Yoga Los Angeles :: Mark Blanchard Power Yoga Studio City". Markblanchardsyoga.com. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. Retrieved May 3, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Debbie Gibson Online Store – EY Workshop". Debbiegibsonmerch.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2014.
  9. ↑ Nast, Condé (April 7, 2017). "Rowan Blanchard Says She's "Sick to My Stomach" About the Conflict in Syria". Teen Vogue. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  10. ↑ Sasso, Samantha (March 29, 2017). "Rowan Blanchard On Beauty, Brows, & Growing Up On The Internet". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  11. ↑ Stone, Chelsea (April 7, 2017). "Rowan Blanchard Says She's "Sick to My Stomach" About the Conflict in Syria". Teen Vogue. Archived from the original on May 22, 2021. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  12. ↑ "Interview with a Yogi". Yogalaw. Archived from the original on May 7, 2014. Retrieved July 6, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Rowan Blanchard: 25 Things You Don't Know About Me". US Weekly. December 2015. Archived from the original on August 28, 2018. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
  14. 1 2 "Rowan Blanchard's "Who I Am" (Disney Channel)". Disney Video. Archived from the original on June 9, 2014. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  15. ↑ Stransky, Tanner (January 28, 2013). "'Boy Meets World' spin-off: Meet Cory and Topanga's daughter -- EXCLUSIVE". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 16, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
  16. ↑ Ng, Philiana (January 28, 2013). "'Boy Meets World' Follow-Up Casts Cory and Topanga's Daughter". The Hollywood Reporter. Los Angeles, CA. Archived from the original on July 6, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
  17. ↑ "The Disney Channel Circle of Stars Sing Songs". M Magazine. Archived from the original on December 25, 2017. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
  18. ↑ Bibel, Sara (January 9, 2015). "Disney Channel Greenlights Original Movies 'Invisible Sister' Starring Rowan Blanchard & Paris Berelc & 'Further Adventures in Babysitting' Starring Sabrina Carpenter & Sofia Carson". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on January 9, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2015.
  19. ↑ Swift, Andy (February 6, 2017). "Rowan Blanchard Joins The Goldbergs in First Post-Girl Meets World Role". TVLine. Archived from the original on March 5, 2021. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
  20. ↑ McCarthy, Lauren (September 20, 2017). "15-Year-Old Rowan Blanchard Has Announced Her First Book". W. Archived from the original on May 22, 2021. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  21. ↑ Gettell, Oliver (November 1, 2016). "A Wrinkle in Time adds Zach Galifianakis, André Holland, Rowan Blanchard". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved November 5, 2016.
  22. ↑ Petski, Denise (March 27, 2019). "Rowan Blanchard Joins TNT's 'Snowpiercer'". Deadline. Archived from the original on January 24, 2022. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
  23. 1 2 Feldman, Lucy (May 16, 2018). "How Teens Are Redefining the Conversation Around Depression". Time. Archived from the original on October 3, 2021. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
  24. ↑ Weaver, Hilary (January 18, 2016). "Girl Meets World Star Rowan Blanchard Came Out As Queer and Went to Bat for Her Disney Character, Too". New York Magazine's The Cut Blog. Archived from the original on May 9, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  25. ↑ Duff, Chelsea (June 29, 2015). "Rowan Blanchard gave the most moving feminist speech for at the UN Women's Conference". Girls' Life. Archived from the original on November 9, 2015. Retrieved July 24, 2015.
  26. ↑ Blanchard, Rowan [@rowanblanchard] (April 6, 2018). "Instagram may have little, if any, affect on a war so brutal and so unimaginable to those of us who use it daily to watch the news from a removed lens. But I am absolutely positive that I, being a white person from America, have a very vague actualized understanding of the very sickening, murderous injustice of what is going on the grounds in Palestine, and an even vaguer understanding of what it means to be 17 year old Ahed Tahimi (pictured) right now. That said, I do not believe Instagram can be a way of ending a war as violent and as hard to actualize as this, but maybe it is a way of reminding my audience (that is predominantly from the west or especially America), that the world is a lot bigger than America, and there is a lot to read and a lot to learn about and a lot of personal will to be viewed as controversial rather than to remain silent and removed even with a slight cognizance of brutal, violent conflicts such as this. This morning, Palestinians continued their #GreatMarchOfReturn, an unarmed protest along the Gaza Strip demanding to return to their home. Solidarity with the people of Palestine. Solidarity with teen activists from places other than first world, western countries, who are doing unimaginable work every day, without social media, news, etc giving space for them" – via Instagram.
  27. ↑ Blanchard, Rowan [@rowanblanchard] (May 14, 2018). "Gaza qualifies under every definition of genocide yet massacred protestors must always be identified as 'peaceful'. How do white settlers so successfully deform language that no matter how astounding their violence, it is always the colonized who have the burden of proving peace?" zaina alsous, today, may 14 2018" – via Instagram.
  28. ↑ "33rd Young Artist Awards". Young Artist Awards. January 26, 2014. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  29. ↑ "36th Annual Young Artist Awards - Nominations / Special Awards". November 19, 2016. Archived from the original on November 19, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2020.
  30. ↑ Eliahou, Maya (June 9, 2016). "Teen Choice Awards 2016--Captain America: Civil War Leads Second Wave of Nominations". E! Online. NBC Universal. Archived from the original on January 28, 2017. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  31. ↑ "Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards--- Favorite Female TV Star". Nickelodeon. February 4, 2017. Archived from the original on February 5, 2017. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
  32. ↑ Vulpo, Mike (July 12, 2017). "Teen Choice Awards 2017 Reveal "Second Wave" of Nominations". E! Online. Archived from the original on July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
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