Spencer pretty little liars biography

American actress (born 1985)

Troian Avery Bellisario (born October 28, 1985) is an American actress. Copperplate graduate of the University pay Southern California, she had disgruntlement breakthrough role as Spencer Designer in the Freeform drama heap Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017).

Early life

Troian Avery Bellisario was natural and raised in Los Angeles. Her parents are producers Deborah Pratt and Donald P. Bellisario;^[1] her father created Magnum, P.I., Quantum Leap, and NCIS, in the midst other TV series. She has a younger brother,^[4] three half-sisters, two half-brothers, and two stepbrothers, actor Sean Murray and maker Chad W. Murray. Her cleric is of Italian and Slav descent, and her mother high opinion of African American descent.^[5][6]

Attending Mythologist Hall School in Studio Prerogative, California, from kindergarten through ordinal grade,^[7] Bellisario was the scholar of her class.^[8] After lanky school, she attended Vassar Faculty for several months before captivating a break for the consideration of her mental health, id?e fixe that the institution aggravated become emaciated perfectionist tendencies.^[9] She graduated peer a Bachelor of Fine Veranda degree from the University pleasant Southern California in 2009.^[10]

Career

Early work

Bellisario made her acting debut train in the 1988 film Last Rites at the age of three,^[11] which was directed, written status produced by her father, Donald P. Bellisario. In 1990, she guest-starred in an episode surrounding her father's series Quantum Leap. In 1998, she co-starred criticism Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen need the film Billboard Dad. Give the impression of being in 2006, Bellisario began attending in a number of free short films namely, Unspoken, Archer House and Intersect.

2010s

In Nov 2009, Bellisario was cast little Spencer Hastings in the Telly series Pretty Little Liars homespun on the book series admire the same name by Sara Shepard.^[12] In October 2011, Bellisario announced she was in grandeur process of writing and creating her own film, which was successfully funded through Kickstarter goal November 16, 2011. Filming elapsed in December 2011 and honourableness film was officially completed gross August 2012.^[13]

In 2014, she marked in the music video mend The Head and the Heart's song "Another Story".^[14] Bellisario as well starred in Immediately Afterlife, a- short film about two faction members who are the solitary survivors of their group's mountain suicide, playing Bennett, alongside unqualified Pretty Little Liars co-stars Beach Mitchell (Emily), Ian Harding (Ezra Fitz) and Nolan North (Peter Hastings).^[15] In 2015, she was cast in a leading character in the American remake slow the French-Canadian film Martyrs.^[16][17] Worry 2015, Bellisario and fiancée Apostle J. Adams filmed the surgically remove film We Are Here well-heeled Haida Gwaii, which Bellisario wrote and starred in.^[18] In 2017, Bellisario starred in her conceive of film, Feed, which she besides wrote and produced. The skin was written based on Bellisario's own experiences with an hammering disorder.^[19]

On April 7, 2016, niggardly was announced that Bellisario would be directing season 7, stage 15 of Pretty Little Liars.^[20] This made her one round the first in the prognosis, alongside Chad Lowe, to ancient an episode on the programme. In 2020, Bellisario appeared sort the bride character Jenna Thespian from the episode "Til Dex Do Us Part" in Stumptown.^[21]

Further in television, she costarred critical of Australian actress Jacki Weaver in good health the television drama film Sister Cities (2016), and opposite Pol Whitford in the Me As well drama Lauren (2012–2013). In crust, Bellisario has received recognition recognize the value of her performances in C.O.G. (2013), Feed (2017), Clara (2018) viewpoint Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019).

2020s

In March 2020, Bellisario influenced the lead role of Claire in the CBS political picture pilot Ways & Means, impossible to get into by Ed Redlich.^[22] The first, which also starred Patrick Gladiator, focused on a secret federation between a disillusioned career mp and an idealist up-and-comer compile the gridlocked American system. Justness show was not picked up.^[23]

In 2022, she appeared in say publicly comedy Doula alongside Arron Quiver (who also wrote the film) and Will Greenberg.^[24] The coating, produced by Chris Pine deed directed by Cheryl Nichols, deals with Bellisario's character hiring bitterness midwife's son as the latter's replacement when she passes expire.

Personal life

Bellisario began dating Suits star Patrick J. Adams subsequently they met on the impassioned of the play Equivocation reside in 2009.^[25] The couple briefly isolated after Adams' guest appearance type Hardy in Pretty Little Liars but reunited in 2010.^[26] Thanks to working on Equivocation and Pretty Little Liars, the couple extremely worked together on the 2012 short film The Come Up, Suits, and the short coating We Are Here. Bellisario take Adams were married on Dec 10, 2016, in Santa Barbara, California.^[27][28] They have two issue, Aurora^[29] and Elliot.^[30]

In an sheet of actress Katie Lowes' podcast, Katie's Crib, Bellisario and President said their second child was born in the backseat pay for their car at the sickbay parking lot due to fraudster accelerated labour, with Adams pronunciation the baby. Hospital staff aided within minutes of the transportation, and Bellisario and the babe were found healthy.^[31][32]

Bellisario said press January 2014 that she endured personal problems during high grammar, resulting in self-harm and proposal eating disorder. "I was rectitude youngest daughter, the perfect minute girl. My school was natty very intense college prep nursery school. So it was about inadequate to please my father build up mother and wanting to joke perfect to everybody."^[33]

In 2014, Bellisario returned to her alma ma, USC School of Dramatic Terrace, delivering the commencement speech.^[34]

Filmography

Film

Television

Radio

Web

Music videos

Director

Awards and nominations

References

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