G Hannelius

Hannelius was born in Boston, Massachusetts.[3] Her father is Swedish.[4] She moved to Yarmouth, Maine at age 3, and then moved to Los Angeles at the age of 9 with her family. She is an alumna of the Los Angeles-based Young Actor's Studio.[5] She graduated from Sierra Canyon High School in May 2017.[6][7]

As a child, Hannelius had roles in theater, which include playing Madeline in the Children's Theater of Maine's production of Madeline's Rescue in summer 2006[8] and Jenny in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing with Children's Theatre of Maine and Maine State Music Theater. She began acting portraying Courtney Patterson on the sitcom Surviving Suburbia, playing the daughter of Bob Saget's character.[9]

Hannelius at the Hannah Montana: The Movie premiere in 2009

Hannelius had a recurring role on Sonny with a Chance,[10] a Disney Channel original series as Dakota Condor, a guest role on Hannah Montana as a fan named Tiffany[8] and a recurring role on Good Luck Charlie as Jo Keener.[11] She also played Emily Pearson in the Disney Channel original film Den Brother in 2010. and voiced the character Rosebud in Spooky Buddies, for which she won a Young Artist Award;[12] she reprised the role in its sequels Treasure Buddies and Super Buddies.

In February 2011, she was cast for a lead role in the pilot of the High School Musical spin-off series Madison High, however the pilot was not picked up to series.[13] In 2012, Hannelius was cast as Avery Jennings on the Disney Channel series Dog with a Blog,[14] which premiered in October of that same year, and ran until 2015; on average, it attained millions of viewers per episode.[15] In 2014, she guest starred as Mad Mack on the Disney Channel series Jessie, and voiced Lady Joy on the Disney Junior series Sofia the First.

In 2017, Hannelius starred as Christina Carlyle in the Netflix mockumentary crime series American Vandal,[16] which received critical acclaim, and earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.[17][18] In 2019, she starred in an online interactive series titled "Timeline".[19] In 2020, she starred as Heather in the direct-to-video horror film Day 13.[20] She will next star in the upcoming comedy film Sid is Dead.[21][22]

Hannelius is an avid supporter of the domestic violence charity organization, a Window Between Worlds,[23] and has been hosting their annual fundraising event, "Art in the Afternoon", since 2013.[24][25]

In November 2014, it was announced that Hannelius was launching a customized nail-wrap app titled "Make Me Nails".[26] Hannelius stated that she was inspired to create the app because "I wanted to make nail art more accessible for young people. I was doing my own nail-art tutorials, and I could see that my fans were recreating my designs, and that was so cool to me. I wanted to take that to the next level and really give them something more personal."[27]

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