Christy Carlson Romano
Christy Carlson Romano (born March 20, 1984[a]) is an American actress, podcaster, and singer. She is best known for playing Ren Stevens on Even Stevens and voicing the titular character in Kim Possible, both of which aired on the Disney Channel.
Christy Carlson Romano
March 20, 1984
- Actress
- podcaster
- singer
1996–present
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- Vocals
- guitar
2000–present
Early life[edit]
Romano was born on March 20, 1984, in Milford, Connecticut, the youngest of four children of Anthony and Sharon (née Carlson) Romano.[2] Romano was raised Catholic. She is of Italian descent.[3] 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.[4] She made her first feature film appearance in 1996 as a singing "Chiquita Banana" in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You.[5] She also appeared in Henry Fool (1997) and Looking for an Echo (2000).[4][6]
Personal life[edit]
After Even Stevens ended, Romano struggled with depression, self-harm, and alcohol abuse during her late teen years and early twenties.[29] Her experience of playing Belle in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway was taxing on her voice, which was already in delicate condition after she had to have surgery to remove vocal nodules right before her audition. She also admitted that she was pushing her voice past its limit in order to get through her run while trying to make Disney Theatrical Productions proud.[30] Romano later attended Barnard College and received her degree in Film Studies.[31]
Romano and writer-producer Brendan Rooney met in February 2011 while she was studying at Barnard College. They became engaged in November[32] and, after two years of engagement, married on December 31, 2013 at the Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta.[33] In June 2016, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child;[34][35] their daughter was born in December 2016.[36] On August 31, 2018, she announced in People that she and Rooney were expecting their second child,[37] a girl,[38] to whom Romano gave birth in February 2019.[39]