Early life

Cameron was born in Seattle, Washington as Chloe Celeste Hosterman. She is the daughter of Philip Alan Hosterman and Bonnie Wallace, who later divorced, and has an older sister, Claire Hosterman. She grew up in Bainbridge Island, Washington. When she was a child, she attended Sakai Intermediate School. At the age of eight, she began acting in community theater at Bainbridge Performing Arts. When she was 14, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she sang in Burbank High School's National Championship Show Choir.

Cameron is of Scottish and French descent, and is a fluent speaker of the language, having spent many years of her life growing up in France. She has stated she was bullied through her entire school experience, starting in fifth grade, through the end of high school. Regardless of the pressure at school and fitting in, she stayed focused on her dreams of becoming successful in entertainment: "I became very passionate about . I fully immersed myself." Her father died in 2011 when she was 15 years old.

Career

2013-present: Liv & Maddie and music

In 2012, Cameron was cast in a new Disney Channel original series entitled Bits and Pieces as Alanna. Shortly after filming the pilot, Bits and Pieces was retooled into Liv and Maddie and saw Cameron starring in the dual lead role of Liv and Maddie Rooney. The preview of the series began showing on July 19, 2013 (2013-07-19). The show premiered on September 15, 2013 (2013-09-15). On January 13, 2014, Disney Channel renewed Liv and Maddie for a 13-episode second season slated to premiere in Fall 2014. The second season was later expanded to 24 episodes. The first season ended on July 27, 2014, and the second season began on September 21, 2014. The pilot episode gained 5.8 million viewers, which was the most-watched in total viewers in two-and-a-half years - since November 7, 2010 (Shake It Up!). On August 27, 2013 Cameron released a cover of "On Top of the World" by Imagine Dragons as a promotional single. Her cover peaked on the Billboard Kid Digital Songs chart at seventeen, spending three weeks on the chart. On October 15, 2013 "Better In Stereo" was released as a single under Walt Disney Records. "Better In Stereo" made its debut on the Billboard Kid Digital Songs chart at twenty-one before peaking at number one, becoming Cameron's first number one hit.

In February 2014, Cameron confirmed reports that recording had begun for her debut studio album. However, there has been no official announcement whether it will be recorded with a record label or independently. Dove's next single "Count Me In" was released on June 3, 2014. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Kids Digital Songs chart. Cameron played a major role in her first non-Disney film Barely Lethal, theatrically released by A24 Films in 2015. Cameron has gained much success from the biggest TV cable film and kids television event of 2015, Descendants. The movie premiered on July 31, 2015 to a huge 6.6 million viewers. The success of the movie was conducive to the order of a sequel of the movie by Disney, slated to air in 2017. The song spawned Cameron's two first Billboard Hot 100 songs, "Rotten to the Core" at No. 38 and a solo song by Cameron, "If Only", at No. 94. The soundtrack for the movie peaked atop the Billboard 200 chart becoming the first Disney Channel Original Movie since High School Musical 2 to do so.

In 2015 Cameron and Ryan McCartan started a band called The Girl and the Dreamcatcher. On October 1, 2015, they released their first single "Written in the Stars". The band released their second single, "Glowing in the Dark", on January 29, 2016. As apart of the Descendants franchise, Cameron released a cover of Christina Aguilera's hit song, "Genie in a Bottle". The music video premiered on Disney Channel on March 18, 2016. Since then, the single has done well receiving 22 million views in less than a month. On March 29, 2016, Cameron was shooting the fourth season of Liv and Maddie. She is set to film the sequel to Descendants later this year.

Personal life

Cameron has been dating actor and singer Ryan McCartan since August 6, 2013. They announced their engagement on April 14, 2016.

Filmography

Film and television roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Shameless	Holly Herkimer	"A Beautiful Mess" (season 2, episode 4) "Father's Day" (season 2, episode 5)
2012	The Mentalist	Charlotte Anne Jane	"Devil's Cherry" (season 5, episode 2)
2013	Malibu Country	Sienna	"Push Comes to Shove" (season 1, episode 8)
2013-present	Liv and Maddie	Liv Rooney / Maddie Rooney	Lead role
2014	Cloud 9	Kayla Morgan	Television film
2015	Austin & Ally	Bobbie	"Duos & Deception" (season 4, episode 6)
2015	Barely Lethal	Liz Larson	Film
2015	Descendants	Mal	Television film
2015	R.L. Stine's Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls	Beth	Television film
2015	Descendants: Wicked World	Mal	Voice; main role
TBA	Descendants 2	Mal	In production

Discography

Soundtrack albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US	US OST	AUS	BEL	FRA	GER	ITA	NL	SPA
Liv and Maddie	Released: March 17, 2015 Formats: CD, digital download Label: Walt Disney	180	11	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Descendants	Released: July 31, 2015 Formats: CD, digital download Label: Walt Disney	1	1	57	178	102	50	19	50	36
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Singles

Title	Year	Peak chart positions		Album
		US	FRA
"If Only"	2015	94	186	Descendants
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Promotional singles

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Album
		US
"Better in Stereo"	2013	—	Disney Channel Play It Loud
"On Top of the World"		—
"Cloud 9" (with Luke Benward)	2014	—
"Count Me In"		—	Liv and Maddie
"You, Me and the Beat"		—
"Genie in a Bottle"	2016	—	Non-album single
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Other charted songs

Title	Year	Peak chart positions		Album
		US	CAN
"Rotten to the Core" (among Descendants cast)	2015	38	66	Descendants
"Set It Off" (among Descendants cast)		—	—
"Evil Like Me" (with Kristin Chenoweth)		—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Other appearances

Title	Year	Album
"Future Sounds Like Us"	2013	Shake It Up: I <3 Dance
"Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow"		Disney Holidays Unwrapped

Music videos

List of music videos, showing director(s)

Title	Year	Director
"Better In Stereo"	2013	Brando Dickerson
"What a Girl Is"	2015	Layne Pavoggi
"If Only"	2016	Kenny Ortega
"Genie in a Bottle"		Jay Martin

Accolades

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2014	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV: Female Breakout Star	Liv and Maddie	Nominated
2015		Choice TV Actress: Comedy
2016	Kids' Choice Awards	Favorite Female TV Star - Kid's Show
2016	Teen Choice Awards	Choice TV Actress: Comedy		Pending

[ Source: Wikipedia ]