Laura Marano

About

Laura Marie Marano (born November 29, 1995) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Ally Dawson in the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally. Marano was one of the five original classmates in Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. She starred in Without a Trace for three seasons and Back to You. Marano starred in the indie film A Sort of Homecoming, the Disney Channel Original Movie Bad Hair Day (both 2015), the fifth installment of the A Cinderella Story film series A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish, the Netflix original movie The Perfect Date (both 2019), and the Netflix interactive romcom Choose Love (2023).
In 2015, she signed with Big Machine Records and released her debut single “Boombox” on March 11, 2016, and “La La” later that year. On October 5, 2018, Laura Marano released the single “Me” as an independent artist.

Marano was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the younger daughter of college professor Damiano Marano and former actress Ellen (née Sweeney) Marano, who owns the Agoura Children’s Theatre. Her father is of Italian descent. Marano was first introduced to acting at her mother’s theatre. At age five, Marano began expressing…