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Dove Olivia Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman) is an American actress, voice actress, and singer.

For Disney, she is best known for portraying Liv & Maddie Rooney in the Disney Channel Original Series Liv and Maddie. In 2014, she played Kayla Morgan in the Disney Channel Original Movie Cloud 9. In 2015, she guest-starred, along with Ryan McCartan (who was also her fiancé),[1] in an episode of Austin & Ally. She also portrayed Maleficent's daughter, Mal, in the Descendants franchise. Additionally, she played Ruby Hale in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and voiced Spider-Gwen in Ultimate Spider-Man and Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors and Becky Smoochenbacher in the second season (and series) finale of LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.

Additionally, she played Anastasia Romanov in the Hulu series History of the World, Part II.

Outside of Disney, Cameron is well-known for playing Amber Von Tussle in the NBC TV series Hairspray Live! and voicing Ella in Sony Pictures' The Angry Birds Movie 2.

Early life[]

Cameron was born Chloe Celeste Hosterman on January 15, 1996, in Bainbridge Island, Washington. She is the daughter of Philip Alan Hosterman and Bonnie Wallace, who later divorced, and has a older sister, Claire Hosterman. When she was a child, she attended Sakai Intermediate School. At age eight, Cameron began acting in community theater at Bainbridge Performing Arts. When she was fourteen, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she sang in Burbank High School's National Championship Show Choir.

Cameron has stated that she is of French descent and that she speaks some French. She also has Russian, Slovak and Hungarian ancestry. She has said she was bullied throughout her entire school experience, from fifth grade through the end of high school. Regardless of the pressure at school and fitting in, she stayed focused on her dreams of achieving success in entertainment: "I became very passionate about becoming an actress and singer. I fully immersed myself." Her father died in 2011 when she was 15. Following his death, Cameron changed her legal name to Dove in honor of her father who called her by that nickname.

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