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| Birth Name(s) : Carly Schroeder |
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Full Carly Schroeder Biography
Schroeder’s tag-along trip to her cousin’s audition in 1993 turned out to be her lucky day and the start of her career as an actress.
While there, the cute three-year-old was spotted by the casting director and asked if she would consider working for them. While Schroeder’s mother was hesitant at first, the prospects of earning money for a college education appealed to her.
After her first job, she began doing print work in Chicago for Sears, Roebuck and Company, Kmart, Spiegel, Land’s End, Chuck E. Cheese's, and many other print advertisers. Two years later in 1995, renowned child director Bob Ebel was so taken by Schroeder’s wide-eyed innocence and extra spark of enthusiasm, he asked her to do a few television commercials.
It was one of Ebel’s commercials - the one for Shake 'n Bake - which caught the eye of General Hospital cast member Kin Shriner. In 1997, American Broadcasting Company (ABC) decided that Shriner’s character, Scott Baldwin, should have a daughter. Since he would be working very closely with the new cast member, Shriner asked if he could participate in the selection of his television daughter, Serena Baldwin.
Two weeks before a decision was to be made, the studio was down to five candidates for the part and still uncertain of whom to cast. It was at this serendipitous time that Schroeder’s commercial for Shake ‘N’ Bake began to air on national television.
Shriner said stated that every time he turned on the tube, there was “this blonde-haired, blue-eyed, quirky little girl” that made him laugh. Knowing that Scotty Baldwin had found his daughter at last, Shriner immediately showed the commercial to GH casting director Mark Teschner and executive producer, Wendy Riche.
During this time, Schroeder also worked on several television shows and movies including two episodes of Dawson’s Creek (2000) as the soccer girl Molly Sey, as well as playing Susan Olsen in the television movie Growing Up Brady (2000). She also appeared in one episode of The George Lopez Show (2002) as Ashley.
During this time, Schroeder made a return to television in an episode of Cold Case (2004). In August of 2004, she took a working vacation to France as she visited Cannes for Mean Creek’s entry onto the film contest, as well as a trip in January 2005 to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
Finding a true passion for film, she appeared in a small student film called We All Fall Down (2005). Schroeder also found time to squeeze in three other films that year; Firewall (2006), with Harrison Ford, Eye of the Dolphin (2006), and Prey (2007).
Set in 1978, Gracie is an inspirational film about a teenage girl who overcomes the loss of her brother and fights the odds to achieve her dream of playing competitive soccer at a time when girls soccer did not exist.
However, Schroeder was faced with a battle of her own when director Davis Guggenheim and Elizabeth Shue, producer were set on finding a real female soccer player and even initiated a nationwide casting call for the part of Grace Bowen.
Undeterred, Schroeder began an intense three-month work-out that included a daily regime of not only physical fitness, but training in advanced soccer skills with professional athletes and trainers.
Once she received the part, Schroeder trained even harder in order to hone her soccer skills. All this on top of the normal demands of shooting a feature film, including memorizing lines, taking direction and working with other actors.
The movie has been well received and continues to receive honors, including being named as an Official Selection for the Tribeca Film Festival, Delray Beach Film Festival, Kids First! Film Festival, Tiburon Film Festival, USA Family Film Festival and the Worldfest Houston Film festival.
At the 2007 Kids First Awards in October, Carly received the award for Best Emerging Actress; while the film received the Best Feature Award (ages 12-18).Currently...At this time, Schroeder's resume is growing; she is looking into two to three other projects while attending school where she’s a junior. She enjoys sports, including baseball, scuba diving, karate, surfing, grappling, soccer and horseback riding. |
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