Sofia Daccarétt Char, better known as Sofia Carson, is an actress, singer, dancer and
song writer from the US.
She is famous because of her role as Evie (ívi) in the Disney movie Descendants.
She was born on April 10th 1993, in Fort Lauderdale, the Venice of America, and she was raised
with her family in Miami.
Her parents, José Daccarett and Laura Char, are from Colombia.
Her mom was Barranquilla Carnival Queen, and is nowadays her manager.
Sofia is very close to her family and she is very proud of her latin origins.
She speaks a perfect Spanish, as well as English and French.
She has a little sister, Paulina, with whom she’s living now in Los Angeles.
She changed her name to Sofia Carson when she started her artistic life.
She adopted her grandma’s last name since it was shorter and sounded better.
Since she was 3, she knew she loved performances and wanted to live a life on stage, so she
spent her whole childhood and adolescence preparing for it.
She has been composing since she was a kid, and she’s taken ballet, jazz and contemporary
dance classes.
She is a great dancer!
She has participated in several musicals and theater plays locally.
When she was 18, she enroled in Universty, for a major in Communication and a minor in
International Relations.
She is now about to finish and get her degree.
She always dreamt about being a Disney Girl, and her dreams started becoming true in 2014.
Carson jumped to the world of TV with a small part in the Disney Channel series Austin and
Ally.
Some months later, she got a role in the MTV series Faking it.
Her big opportunity came after a casting with the famous director and coreographer Kenny
Ortega, for the Disney movie Descendants.
Even tho Sofia auditioned for Mal’s part, the director thought Evie suited her better,
the daughter of the Evil Queen in SnowWhite.
The movie was released in August 2015, and it was a total success.
It was the most watched movie of the year and the fifth in the history of cable TV in
the country.
The soundtrack made it to the top 1 of the Billboard list.
In 2015, Sofía made it to the 50 Most Beautiful People edition of the Spanish People Magazine.
Evie’s role really did change her life.
Thanks to the Descendants success, Sofía signed a contract with Hollywood records to
record an album.
Her music career officially started with her single “Love is the Name”, a pop version
of “Live is Life”, by the Austrian band Opus.
The Colombian J. Balvin collaborated in the latin version.
2016 was definitely Sofia’s year.
She turned into a distracted baby sitter in Adventures in Babysitting with Sabrina Carpenter.
She participated in Tini, Violetta’s big change and she briefly appeared on an episode
of Soy Luna.
Apart from all this, she got the main role of the last A Cinderella Story movie, replacing
Hillary Duff and Selena Gomez.
Last year, Descendants 2 came out, as succesfully as the first one, and Sofia is getting ready
for her first album.
She released the songs “I Gonna Love you, Back to Beautiful” with Allan Walker and
Ins and Outs.
She will also appear as a special guest in the second season of Famous in Love and she
will become the protagonist of The Perfectionists,the Pretty Little Liars’ spin off.
Sofía’s careers seems to be unstoppable!
Big things are still to come from her!