Chloe Celeste Hosterman[1], better known as Dove Olivia Cameron (born January 15, 1996), is an American actress and singer who stars in the Disney Channel Original Comedy series, Liv and Maddie. Cameron portrays both identical twins, Liv and Maddie on the show.
Cameron was born in Seattle, Washington to Philip Alan Hosterman [2] and Bonnie Wallace. [3] At the age of eight she began acting in community theater. When Cameron was fourteen she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting professionally. There she attended Burbank High School and sang in their National Championship Show Choir.
Career
Dove Cameron made her first TV appearance as Holly Hermiker in the hit Showtime series Shameless. She was in two episodes of the show, "Father's Day" and "A Beautiful Mess." She then later made another big television appearance as Charlotte Anne Jane in an episode of The Mentalist titled "Devil's Cherry".
Cameron at her basketball training.
Later in 2012 she went to Utah and started filming a new Disney Channel Original Movie titled Cloud 9; the film was released in 2014. Cameron starred as Kayla Morgan, in the snowboarding-comedy film produced by Ashley Tisdale and Shaun White. She starred alongside other well-known Disney Channel stars, such as Luke Benward and Kiersey Clemons. It was first announced to the public that Dove Cameron would be joining the Disney Channel team by Disney Channel head Gary Marsh at the 2013 Disney Upfront Event. Cameron posted a picture in early 2013 of her doing basketball training. This training was to prepare for her role of Maddie because Maddie is the captain of her school's basketball team. Dove Cameron attended the Radio Disney music awards in 2013, along with the rest of the cast of Liv and Maddie.
It had been announced that Dove Cameron would star alongside Hailee Stienfeld in the new movie Barely Lethal, premiering sometime in 2014. Cameron played the queen bee of the school, Liz Larson.
Dove Cameron had been cast in the Disney Channel movie Descendants, which premiered in 2015. She played Mal, the daughter of Maleficent. She also reprise's this role in the squeal Decedents 2
In mid 2013, Cameron began dating co-star Ryan McCartan, whom she became engaged to in April 2016. However, they split up in October 2016, which Ryan confirmed via Twitter.
Her band with Ryan McCartan aka The Girl and The Dreamcatcher's EP came out.
She was filming Descendants 2, which ended production in October 2016, and starred in Hairspray Live!, which came out in December 2016.
At the age of eight, she began acting in community theater.
Dove can speak fluent French. This was a plot point for one episode.
When she was fourteen, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting professionally.
She has a "Who I Am" segment, making hers the fourth to air on Disney Channel (after Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell and Laura Marano).
She loves to sew.
She was on an episode of Disney's Win, Lose or Draw along with her co-star, Joey Bragg.
She has an older sister named Claire Hosterman who is seven years older than her.
Her father passed away when she was fifteen.
Dove was engaged to her co-star Ryan McCartan who played one of her love interests Diggie on Liv and Maddie, until their split in October 2016.[6] (See Dove and Ryan (relationship) for more information.)
She was bullied when she was in middle school and high school.
She has met Ashley Tisdale and has worked with her on the movie Cloud 9.
She used to love High School Musical.
She wishes that her father was still here to watch her follow her dreams, as he would be so proud of her.
She has had her first Disney Channel movie, Cloud 9.
She kissed Luke Benward in Cloud 9.
Dove has a semi-photographic memory which helps her to remember her script lines.
She is 5'2.
She describes her fans, Dovelies, as dedicated, kind, and dovely.
Her fans are called "Dovelies".
Dove says in her free time she likes to cook for the cast.
She brings brownies and her special blueberry cake and apple pie for the cast.
The twins she plays as is her personality split down the middle.
She started acting in local community productions at age 8.
Her parents encouraged her interest in acting while she grew up in Seattle, Washington.
She acted with Emmy Rossum on two episodes of Shameless in 2012.
Her birth sign is Capricorn.
From about 5th grade to the end of high school she used to be insecure about her crooked teeth and her pale skin.
Her dad was huge on music. He would play the piano and she would sing.
Dove’s birth name is Chloe Celeste Hosterman.
Dove has a cat named Fern.
Veronica is Dove’s best friends name.
Dove is a huge fan of the BBC show Doctor Who and slips references into her own show.
Dove’s favourite book is a collection of Edgar Allan Poe poetry given to her by her grandfather.
Dove is a fan of the FX show American Horror Story and has dreams to one day star on the show.
Dove cut and dyed her own hair when she was 12, aiming for a Zooey Deschanel look, but ended up with “a German school boy’s look, 70s sort of look”.
In 2014, she was in a movie called 'Barely Lethal'.
In 2015, was in a movie called 'Descendants' and she played Mal, the daughter of Maleficent.
She weighs 52kg or 115 pounds
She started snowboarding at the age of 7.
Her fan mail address is Abrams Artists Agency L.A. 9200 Sunset Blvd. 11th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90069
She's a Disney Channel star.
Her most common nickname is "Dovey".
Most of Dove's friends and family call her by her birth name, Chloe.
She said that her parents named her Dove because they love Picasso and he named his daughter Paloma, and that means "dove" in Spanish.[7]
However, it is unknown why she said this as her parents named her Chloe, not Dove.
She has been to the UK and France before.
Her most embarrassing moment while shooting Cloud 9 was she could not keep her snowboarding goggles out of her eyes.
Her parents are Philip Alan Hosterman and Bonnie Wallace.
She didn't know that her single 'Count Me In' was released as no one told her about it.
She legally changed her name to Dove because her father used to call her that.
Her middle name is Celeste.
Her father passed away, just a few years before she started acting.
One of her favorite moments in the whole series is in Sing It Live!!!-A-Rooney, when Liv has decide whether to sing or not due to the risk of her voice being gone.[16]
