Early life

Romano was born in Milford, Connecticut, the youngest of four children to Anthony and Sharon. She began her career at six years old when she was cast in several national tours of Broadway shows, including Annie, The Will Rogers Follies with Keith Carradine, and The Sound of Music with Marie Osmond. She made her first feature film appearance in 1996 as a singing "Chiquita Banana" in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You. She also appeared in Henry Fool (1997), and Looking for an Echo (2000).

Career

Romano made her Broadway debut in 1998 as Mary Phagan in the musical Parade by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown. In 2002, Romano became the first person to act in three Disney Channel projects simultaneously, supplementing her work on Even Stevens with a starring role in Cadet Kelly, alongside Hilary Duff, and voice acting as the title character in Kim Possible. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her work on Kim Possible. The show inspired an adventure scavenger hunt activity at Disney's Epcot which ran for over five years, as well as two Disney Channel movies Kim Possible: So the Drama and Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time. She voiced Yuffie Kisaragi in the English version of the movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, as well as in the Disney/Square game Kingdom Hearts.

Throughout her teens and twenties, Romano starred in movies for ABC Family and Disney Channel, including Campus Confidential, Taking Five, The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold, and The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream. Various other appearances include MTV's Kaya, CBS's Joan of Arcadia, The WB's Summerland, and TNT's Hawthorne.

In February 2004, Romano began a 31-week run as Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. In September 2008, she joined the Broadway company of Avenue Q as Kate Monster for several weeks.

She starred as Michelle off-Broadway in White's Lies at New World Stages in 2010, alongside Betty Buckley and Tuc Watkins.

Romano penned a novel, Grace's Turn, for Disney literary subsidiary Hyperion, which received accolades by the New York Public Library (NYPL) as the 2007 Teenage Book of the Year. In 2012, she directed a music video for Steph Gold's "THE SUN" which was accepted into the Los Angeles Shorts Fest 2012.

In March 2016, Christy will embark on her directorial debut with the holiday film Christmas All Over Again starring Nickelodeon star Sean Ryan Fox and Youtube star Todrick Hall. The film is set to be distributed before Christmas 2016.

Music career

While working at Disney, Romano recorded songs as part of soundtracks for Kim Possible and other Disney projects. She first sang on the Disney Channel on a musical episode of Even Stevens which led to more singing on the series and with Disney in general. In 2004, Walt Disney Records released Romano's debut album Greatest Disney TV & Film Hits. After her Broadway run of Beauty and the Beast Romano signed a record deal with Jason Flom at Atlantic Records. Flom was fired before Romano released her first album and Romano's deal was not honored. She continued to write music with Kara DioGuardi and The Matrix and placed her songs in several movies.

Personal life

Romano and producer Brendan Rooney met in February 2011 while studying at Barnard College. They became engaged nine months later, and married on December 31, 2013 at the Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Everyone Says I Love You	Trick-or-Treat Child
1997	Henry Fool	Pearl
1999	Goosed	Gail
2000	Looking for an Echo	Tina Pirelli
2002	Cadet Kelly	Cadet Captain Jennifer Stone
2002	Dinosaur Island	Proud Mother (voice)	Video
2003	Archies in Jugman, TheThe Archies in Jugman	Mrs. Weatherbee (voice)	Video
2005	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children	Yuffie Kisaragi (voice)
2006	The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold	Jackie Dorsey	Video
2008	The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream	Jackie Dorsey	Video
2009	Wolvesbayne	Alex Layton
2010	Legend of Secret Pass, TheThe Legend of Secret Pass	Nica (voice)
2010	Suicide Dolls	Amber
2010	Movin' In	Ann Beck
2010	Mirrors 2	Jenna McCarty	Video
2011	Loosies	Carmen
2013	Infected	Kelly
2013	Lucky Dog	Sharon
2014	Prism	Grace
2014	Real Love	Brie
2014	Deadly Daycare	Gabby
2014	Bear with Us	Quincy Adams
2015	The Girl in the Photographs	Britney

Television series and video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Many Trials of Tammy B, TheThe Many Trials of Tammy B	Dani	TV film
1999	Guiding Light	Erica	TV series
2000-2003	Even Stevens	Renee "Ren" Stevens	Main Role (65 episodes)
2001	B.S.	Andy Brenner	TV film
2002	Kingdom Hearts	Yuffie Kisaragi (voice)	Video game
2002	Kim Possible: Revenge of Monkey Fist	Kim Possible (voice)	Video game
2002-2007	Kim Possible	Kimberly Ann "Kim" Possible (voice)	Lead Role (86 episodes)
2002	Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time	Kim Possible (voice)	TV film
2003	Even Stevens Movie, TheThe Even Stevens Movie	Ren Stevens	TV film
2004	Joan of Arcadia	Officious Hall Monitor God	Episode: "The Book of Questions"
2004	Kim Possible: The Villain Files	Kim Possible	Video
2005	Summerland	Gigi	Episode: "Where There's a Will There's a Wave"
2005	Lilo & Stitch: The Series	Kim Possible (voice)	Episode: "Rufus: Experiment #607"
2005	Family Guy	Quagmire's One-Night-Stand (voice)	Episode: "I Take Thee, Quagmire"
2005	Kim Possible: So the Drama	Kim Possible (voice)	TV film
2005	Campus Confidential	Violet	TV film
2006	Casper's Scare School	Mantha (voice)	TV film
2007	Kaya	Kat	3 episodes
2009	Hawthorne	Alex	Episode: "Night Moves"
2010	Iris Expanding	Zelda
2010	Penguins of Madagascar, TheThe Penguins of Madagascar	Little Girl #1 / Lunacorn (voice)	Episode: "Hello, Dollface/Huffin and Puffin"

Theater

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998-1999	Parade	Mary Phagan	Broadway
2004	Beauty and the Beast	Belle	Broadway
2008	Avenue Q	Kate Monster / Lucy the Slut	Broadway
2010	White's Lies	Michelle	Off-Broadway

Web shows

Year	Show	Role
2012	MyMusic	Herself/Satan (1 episode)

Discography

Albums

• Greatest Disney TV & Film Hits (2004)

MySpace Music

Shared Songs (in order of when released):

Song	Months/Year the song appeared
"Simple"	November 2005 - February 2006
"Headphones On"	November 2005 - January/February 2006
"We'll Awaken"	March 2006 - June 2006 (following The Cutting Edge 2 TV premiere)
"Wrong"	March 2006-Originally titled "Hope" later retitled to "Wrong"- October 2007
"Closer to Closure"	March 2006 - June 2006
"Junky Love"	June 2006 - September 2006 and October 2007 - May 2009
"Just a Song"	June 2006 - September 2006
"She Waits"	September 2006
"A Boy Like You"	September 2006 - November 2006
"Changed"	September 2006 - November 2006
"No Such Thing"	September 2006 - October 2007
"Running Away"	September 2006 - November 2006
"Even a Hero"	November 2006 - October 2007
"Friday Night (cover of The Click Five)"	March 2007
"Rewind"	October 2007 - May 2009
"Celebrity"	October 2007- May 2009
"Point of View"	January 2009 - May 2009

Soundtracks

Year	Song	Soundtrack
1996	"Chiquita Banana"	Everyone Says I Love You
1998	Various Songs on the original cast recording	Parade
2004	"Anyone But Me"	Zenon Z3 Soundtrack
2004	"Toy Town"	Radio Disney Jingle Jams
2006	"We'll Awaken"	The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold
2006	"Let's Bounce"	The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
2007	"Friday Night"	Taking Five
	"No Such Thing"	Taking Five
	"Best Time of the Year"	Disney Channel Holiday
2008	"Catch Me If You Can"	The Cutting Edge: Chasing the Dream
2010	"Let's Go Boogie Tonight"	Movin' In'

Awards and nominations

Year	Result	Award	Category	Nominated work
2001	Won	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series - Leading Young Actress	Even Stevens
2002	Won	Young Artist Award	Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series - Leading Young Actress	Even Stevens
2004	Nominated	Young Artist Award	Best Young Adult Performer in a Teenage Role	The Even Stevens Movie

Charities

Christy Carlson Romano supports the following charitable cause: Children.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]