Madelaine Petsch

About

Madelaine Grobbelaar Petsch (born August 18, 1994) is an American-South African actress and social media personality. She is best known for portraying Cheryl Blossom on The CW television series Riverdale (2017–2023).

Petsch was born on August 18, 1994, to Timothy and Michele Petsch, in Port Orchard, Washington. At the age of three, she began dance classes, and two years later enrolled in theater classes. Petsch’s parents are from South Africa, and she spent the first ten years of her life dividing her time between South Africa and the state of Washington. She attended the Tacoma School of the Arts and relocated to Los Angeles after graduating. Petsch has one older brother, Shaun, who is three years her senior.

Petsch appeared in a national advertising campaign for Coca-Cola in 2014. In February 2016, she was cast as Cheryl Blossom in The CW’s Riverdale, having been pinned for the role since late 2015 after meeting the casting director, who was at the time working on Legends of Tomorrow. The series began filming in September of that year. It premiered on January 26, 2017, and ended on August 23, 2023, after seven seasons. In March 2017, she joined the cast…