“I fall so in love with people,” she says. On set she fell for her on-screen love interest, Ryan McCartan. By 16, she landed the lead on Liv & Maddie - an overnight success by any Hollywood metric - playing twins with opposite personalities. Of course, Cameron is more than her tragedies: When she was 14, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles so Dove, who had been increasingly involved in regional theater, could pursue her acting career. I act on things because they’re important, and it would be a devastating waste not to use a massive platform to speak up.” “I don't actually feel responsibility for anything, ever. It's not even a political issue, it's a fucking common-sense issue.” Her activism stems from a deep personal place. “We grew up in a culture that is so desensitized to human loss at the hands of firearms. “Cameron was very passionate about gun control and giving children artistic outlets and alternatives to violent lives,” she says. The tattoo of a pistol with a rose emerging from its barrel on her wrist is in his honor. When she was 23, Dove’s good friend and Descendants’ co-star Cameron Boyce suddenly passed away from epilepsy, at age 20. Cameron was 15 when her own father died by suicide - inspiring her to legally change her name to “Dove,” her father’s nickname for her. When she was 8, her best friend was murdered by her father, who then murdered his other daughter and took his own life. (Her good friends and lovers refer to her as “Chloe ” it’s “Dove” for the rest of us.) At 25, she has already lived a few lives. Cameron was born Chloe Celeste Hosterman on January 15, 1996, in Bainbridge Island, WA. It is the kind of candor typically saved for the drafts folder, not blasted to 43.5 million followers. Cameron’s grid is a quilt of glamorous shots of a gorgeous young woman falling in and out of love, replete with crying selfies and captions about anxiety attacks. On Instagram, another dimension reveals itself. (You could link her appeal to her bubbly personality, and you’d be correct - she plays Bubbles in Diablo Cody’s forthcoming live-action CW series Powerpuff Girls.) A different side of Cameron comes through in her solo music, moody singles unlike anything in the Disney songbook. She’s come to be beloved for her wholesome, effervescent mien, a public image built to stoke the adulation of her tween fans and set to put parents’ fears to rest. She did double duty over the course of four seasons embodying the titular twins of Disney’s Liv and Maddie she played Mal, the headstrong daughter of Maleficent, in Disney’s Descendants movie franchise and holds Broadway stage credits for her roles as teens in Hairspray Live! and Clueless, The Musical. Cameron is best known for playing children, even though she hasn't been one for the better part of a decade.
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