Creator / Dove Cameron

Dove Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman, January 15, 1996 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actor and singer. She is best known for playing the dual role of both Liv and Maddie in Liv and Maddie, or as Kayla Morgan in Cloud 9 and Mal in Descendants.

Though born in Seattle, Washington, her family also spent time in France and eventually moved to Los Angeles when she was 14.

She and her (now-ex) fiance Ryan McCartan, who also appeared on Liv and Maddie, have their own YouTube channel for their band 'The Girl and the Dreamcatcher'. Their first single under that name, "Written in the Stars," came out on October 3, 2015. She also has a solo channel.

Outside of her work with Disney, she's also notable for her involvement with Marvel Comics properties. She provided the voice of Spider-Gwen on Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), and reprised the role in Marvel Rising. She also had a recurring role on the fifth season of ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Selected filmography:

• Shameless (US) (2012): Holly Herkimer (season 2)
• The Mentalist (2012): Charlotte Anne Jane (hallucination of teenage Charlotte)
• Liv and Maddie (2013-2017): Liv and Maddie Rooney
• Cloud 9 (2014): Kayla Morgan
• Barely Lethal (2015): Liz Larson
• RL Stine's Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls (2015): Beth
• Descendants (2015): Mal
  • Descendants 2 (2017)
  • Descendants 3 (2019)
• Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh (2016): Lizzie (voice)
• Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) (2016) as Gwen Stacy / Spider-Gwen (voice) ^note episode: "Return to the Spider-Verse, Part Four"
• LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (2017): Becky Smoochenbacher (voice)
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2018): Ruby Hale
• Marvel Rising as Gwen Stacy / Ghost-Spider (voice):
  • Marvel Rising: Initiation (2018)
  • Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts (2019)
  • Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron (2019)
  • Marvel Rising: Battle of the Bands (2019)
  • Marvel Rising: Operation Shuri (2019)
  • Marvel Rising: Playing with Fire (2019)
• The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019): Ella (voice)
• Schmigadoon! (2021-): Betsy McDonough (season 1), Jenny Banks (season 2)
• Big Nate (2022–): Ellen Wright
• History of the World Part II (2023-) as Anastasia Romanov
• Powerpuff (cancelled) as Bubbles

Theatre credits:

• Hairspray Live (2016): Amber Von Tussle
• Mamma Mia! (2017 Hollywood Bowl): Sophie Sheridan
• The Light in the Piazza (2019 London): Clara Johnson

Tropes applying to her music:

• Better Partner Assertion: "Boyfriend" is about the singer asserting to a girl that she would be a better, more attentive partner for her than her boyfriend.
  I don't need to tell you twice
  All the ways he can't suffice
  If I could give you some advice
  I would leave with me tonight
• Card-Carrying Villain: The narrator of "Breakfast" is aware that their behaviour is wrong but keeps doing it, seeming to enjoy it.
• Cover Version: A frequent feature on the band's YouTube channel. She has also done covers of Imagine Dragons' "On Top of the World" from Liv and Maddie and Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" for Disney.
• Crystal Clear Picture: In the music video of "Breakfast", Cameron plays two characters—a powerful, office female worker in a world with the gender roles switched and a silent TV presenter in black-and-white. The latter's image is always crystal clear despite the device she appears being very old to today's standards. It only shows scan lines when the illusion of the gender-flipped world starts to shatter.
• Her Boyfriend's Jacket: In "Boyfriend", the singer asserts that she'd be a better partner for a girl than her current boyfriend, adding, "Plus all my clothes would fit."
• Persecution Flip: The music video for "Breakfast" takes place in an alternate sixties with all the inherent sexism of the time but the roles of men and women flipped. This puts a much darker spin on the tone of the song itself.

Tropes applying to her works in general:

• Action Girl: Mal in Descendants and Spider-Gwen in Marvel Rising.
  • Dark Action Girl: Ruby Hale in Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Approval of God: In response to someone applying the "only bisexuals do fingerguns" meme to a screencap of Spider-Gwen finger-gunning at Quake in Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts, she replied, "Is there any other kind?"
• Contractual Purity: To a minor extent has had trouble with this. She was already in her very late teens when she was the first cast in Disney productions and had already done roles in racy content such as Shameless (US), so it wasn't really much issue when she did things like Barely Lethal (where her character gets drunk and has a penis drawn on her face) or Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (where she plays The Sociopath). However, she's frequently been targeted by trolls on social media for having too low cut a top in a photo or posing in a bikini, despite not actually showing anything, purely because they expect her to be 100% modest at all times, regardless. She's spoken out about the way society treats the human body as perverse, and the toxicity of this kind of mindset.
• Creator Couple: With Ryan McCartan, in their band.
• Fan Community Nickname: Dovelies
• Those Two Actors: Played Kristin Chenoweth's daughter twice (Descendants and Hairspray Live), and co-starred with her again in Schmigadoon!.
  • She's also worked with Chloe Bennet twice in separate Marvel projects (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel Rising), and played sisters in the Powerpuffs pilot, but Bennet dropped out of the latter after the pilot due to scheduling conflicts.
• Word of Gay: According to Dove, most of her characters, including Maddie and Liv, are gay or bi, even if they don't always come out onscreen.