Dove Olivia Cameron is an American singer and actress. She became famous for her double role of the eponymous characters in the Disney Channel comedy series Liv and Maddie, for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children’s Programming. Cameron continued her work with the Disney Channel and portrayed Mal in the Descendants franchise (2015–2021). In 2016, Cameron starred in the NBC live television musical Hairspray Live!. On stage, from 2018 to 2019, she played the role of Cher Horowitz in an off-Broadway rendition of the 1995 film Clueless, and in 2019, she debuted on the London stage with her portrayal of Clara Johnson in the musical The Light in the Piazza. Cameron further starred in the comedy thriller Vengeance (2022).
As a singer, Cameron made her debut with the soundtrack album to Liv and Maddie (2015). In the same year, she released her debut single, “If Only”, which was included in the soundtrack album for Descendants, the album topped the US Billboard 200, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she also participated in two soundtrack albums for Descendants : Descendants 2, Descendants 3 (2017–2019). Her debut musical release, Bloodshot / Waste, was released in 2019. In 2022, she released the single “Boyfriend”, the song received commercial and critical success, and also reached the top 20 in the Billboard Hot 100, and was certified platinum by the RIAA.
She has received various accolades including an American Music Award, an MTV Video Music Award, an Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award. She also has a large following on social media, her Instagram has more than 48 million followers, and TikTok has more than 12 million.
