Anneliese van der Pol
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 Anneliese van der Pol at the 2005 BET Comedy Awards |
Anneliese Louise van der Pol (born September 23 1984) is a Dutch-American actress and singer. After an early career in musical theatre, she was cast as Chelsea Daniels in the Disney Channel Original Series That's So Raven, a role that gained her renown among young audiences. Van der Pol also has a career as a singer, and has recorded several songs for Disney.
Biography
Early life
Van der Pol was born in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands to Willem van der Pol, who is Dutch and is the director of the Physical Plant at the California State University in Fullerton, and Dyan Ross, an American from Brooklyn, New York. She has two older sisters, Rachel and Sarah, and is of Jewish heritage. Van der Pol's family moved to her mother's native United States when she was three years old, and she retains dual citizenship between the Netherlands and the United States She is fluent in English and speaks a little Dutch.
The elementary school that she attended was Washington Elementary, located in Bellflower, California. Van der Pol began acting in the third grade and graduated from the theater program of the acclaimed Orange County High School of the Arts. She played Eva Peron in the Buena Park Civic Theatre production of Evita in 1999, and received positive reviews from the Los Angeles Times. At fifteen years old, she was also one of the youngest actresses to play the role in a professional production.
Career
Van der Pol subsequently starred as "Laurey" in the Austin Musical Theatre production of Oklahoma! from 2000 to 2001. Her performance earned her the Austin Critics Table Award nominations for "Best Actress in a Musical". Van der Pol was later cast as Chelsea Daniels, the best friend of the title character, in the Disney Channel Original Series That's So Raven, a role she played from 2002 to 2007. Van der Pol has also appeared on the Disney Channel Games as a member of the Red Team; her teammates were Zac Efron, Kay Panabaker, Dylan Sprouse, Shin Koyamada, and Moises Arias.
Van der Pol is a soprano and is trained in the belting vocal technique. In 2004, she recorded the song "Over It " for the Disney Channel Original Movie Stuck in the Suburbs. Her second solo recording, called "A Day in the Sun", a cover originally sung by Hilary Duff appeared on the album That's So Raven Too!. Van der Pol has been associated with several other Disney music projects, including the Elton John song "Circle of Life" for The Lion King: Special Edition DVD, "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" for the Cinderella: Special Edition DVD, and "Candle on the Water" from Pete's Dragon on Disneymania 4.
Van der Pol appears in the role of "Belle" in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, beginning on April 3, 2007. She is the final actress to play the role on Broadway before it closes after 13 years on July 29, 2007.
Stage and screen credits
Television
| Year | Show | Role |
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| 2006 | Kim Possible | Heather |
| 2006 | The Disney Channel Games | Herself |
| 2005 | Disney Channel New Year:'Totally Suite New Year's Eve' | Herself |
| 2005 | Horror High | Rachael |
| 2005-???? | Katbot | Katbot/Katerina Botenski (Voices) |
| 2003-2006 | Disney Channel Express Yourself | Herself (unknown episodes) |
| 2002-2007 | That's So Raven | Chelsea Daniels (95 episodes) |
Films
| Year | Film | Role | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002 | Divorce: The Musical Chelsea Weber | 2007 | Bratz: The Movie Meredith's Friend: Avery |
Theatre
Discography
External links |
- 1984 births
- American actor-singers
- American female singers
- American musical theatre actors
- American sopranos
- American television actors
- Dutch television actors
- Dutch Americans
- Dutch female singers
- Jewish American actors
- Jewish American singers
- Living people
- People from Amsterdam
- Naturalized citizens of the United States