After starring as brainy Ren Stevens for 3 years on Even Stevens, bringing the titular Kim Attainable to life, and starring reverse Hilary Duff within the 2002 DCOM Cadet Kelly, Christy Carlson Romano took to Broadway for a 31-week run in Disney’s Magnificence and the Beast in 2004, taking part in Belle, earlier than returning to the famed theater district in 2008, becoming a member of the corporate of Avenue Q.
She wrote a novel, Grace’s Flip, in 2007, directed a function movie, Christmas All Over Once more, in 2016, earned a level in Movie Research from Barnard Faculty, and married writer-producer Brendan Rooney on December 31, 2013. The couple have two daughters, the youngest born in February 2019.
Christy returned to the community that made her a family identify in 2019 with a job within the live-action Kim Attainable movie, taking part in pop star Poppy Blu. In Might 2019, she additionally opened up in regards to the difficulties she confronted popping out of her years because the community’s star in a strong essay for Teen Vogue. “I’ve by no means been good or pulled collectively as my popularity or the success of my younger maturity may counsel,” she confessed. “Throughout a time period in my life, I grappled with melancholy, ingesting, and extra, determined to search out fixes for the way I felt.”