Lilla Crawford

About

Lilla Crawford (born February 20, 2001) is an American actress best known for portraying the title role in the 2012 Broadway revival of Annie. She made her Major Studio feature-film debut playing Little Red Riding Hood in the 2014 Disney film adaptation of Into the Woods. From 2017 to 2020, Crawford had voiced Sunny, the title character, in the Nickelodeon series Sunny Day and has starred in the Netflix series The Who Was? Show starting in 2018.

Crawford began her career at the age of six appearing in commercials, and since then has appeared in several more. She states that she begged her mother to find her an agent because it was her dream to be an animated voice.
She moved from Los Angeles to New York City, where she made her Broadway debut in 2011 as Debbie in the closing cast of the musical Billy Elliot.
After a nationwide search, she won the title role in James Lapine’s 2012 revival of the Tony Award-winning musical Annie at the age of 11, after having previously been in a community theatre production of the same show, where she played Bert Healy. She competed against over 5,000 other girls auditioning to play Annie over a span of nine months. After her initial…