Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter (born May 11, 1999) is an American singer and actress. She made her acting debut with an appearance in the television crime show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and had a recurring role on Fox's The Goodwin Games. She starred in the Disney Channel comedy series Girl Meets World (2014–2017), along with the Disney Channel Original Movie Adventures in Babysitting in 2016.

Carpenter has starred in several feature films, including Horns (2013), The Hate U Give (2018), The Short History of the Long Road (2019), Clouds (2020), and Emergency (2022). She also starred in three Netflix films, Tall Girl (2019), its sequel (2022), and Work It (2020).

Her debut music single "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying" and EP of the same name were released in 2014. Carpenter has since released her debut album, Eyes Wide Open, in 2015, and four more studio albums, Evolution (2016), Singular: Act I (2018), and Singular: Act II (2019), and Emails I Can't Send (2022). She embarked on the Emails I Can't Send Tour in 2022, and is an opening act for Taylor Swift at the Eras Tour (2023–2024).

Early life 
Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter was born on May 11, 1999, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, to David and Elizabeth Carpenter, and raised in East Greenville. She was raised alongside three older sisters and homeschooled. At age 10, she began posting videos on YouTube of her singing. Her father built a recording studio for her to fuel her passion for music. In 2011, she placed third in a singing contest, The Next Miley Cyrus Project, run by Miley Cyrus.

Acting career and other projects

2011–2013: Early acting roles
Carpenter's first acting role was in 2011 in a guest role on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Around the same time, she performed as part of the Hunan Broadcasting System's Gold Mango Audience Festival program in China, singing "Something's Got a Hold on Me". Carpenter also had a recurring role in the Fox sitcom The Goodwin Games, which aired in the summer of 2012.

She appeared in a 2013 film Horns and performed a song, "Smile", for an album, Disney Fairies: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust"; the song charted on Radio Disney. In Sofia the First, she had a recurring role as Princess Vivian, in which she also performed the song "All You Need" with show star Ariel Winter.

2014–present: Breakthrough with Girl Meets World and other ventures
In January 2013, Carpenter was cast in a Disney Channel series Girl Meets World.  In 2016, Carpenter starred in a Disney Channel Original Movie, Adventures in Babysitting. The same year, she also appeared in a Pasadena Playhouse production of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell: A Pirate's Christmas.

In 2018, Carpenter appeared in The Hate U Give, based on the novel. The film was released in October 2018. In 2018, she was cast a drama film The Short History of the Long Road. In May 2018, Carpenter was included in Nylon magazine's "25 Gen Z'ers Changing The World". In July 2019, she was cast in a film adaptation of The Distance From Me to You. She is set to star and produce the film with Girl Meets World co-star Danielle Fishel .  In January 2019, Carpenter was cast in a Netflix film, Tall Girl.

In March 2020, she made her Broadway debut in Mean Girls as Cady Heron, a run intended to be three months; however, the show closed mid-month due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing Broadway and eventually closed permanently on January 7, 2021. She also starred in Clouds, a 2020 teen drama film. In December 2020, she was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in the Hollywood and entertainment category.

In April 2021, Carpenter was cast in Amazon Studios' comedy-drama thriller film Emergency, which is based on a 2018 short film of the same name. In September 2021, she appeared in the third volume of Prime Video's special, Savage X Fenty Show, focused on that year's Savage X Fenty fashion show, as one of the models. In November 2021, she became a brand ambassador for Samsung USA as part of the company's "Team Galaxy" partnership program. In January 2022, Emergency premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival followed by a limited theatrical release and a Prime Video release in May 2022. The following month, she appeared in a Netflix teen romantic comedy sequel, Tall Girl 2. In June 2022, Carpenter announced her debut fragrance in partnership with Scent Beauty, called Sweet Tooth, which would be released in September 2022, with samples made available in the U.S. that month.

Music career

2014–2017: Musical beginnings
In 2014, Carpenter launched her music career with the release of her debut single, "Can't Blame a Girl for Trying". The single is also the title track on her debut EP of the same name that was released in April 2014. Carpenter is featured on the Girl Meets World theme song, "Take on the World". In July 2014, Carpenter contributed lead vocals to the Disney Channel Circle of Stars cover version of "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" She also performed the song "Stand Out" in the Disney Channel movie How to Build a Better Boy, which premiered in August 2014.

In January 2015, Carpenter released the lead single from her debut studio album, "We'll Be the Stars".  The album, Eyes Wide Open, was released on April 14, 2015, and peaked at 43 on the Billboard 200. "Eyes Wide Open" spent four weeks on the Billboard 200 making it her longest charting album to date. Every song on Carpenter's debut EP was included on the album. On April 25, 2015 "We'll Be The Stars" as well as "Eyes Wide Open" was performed for the first time at the 2015 Radio Disney Music Awards where she also won an award in the category Best Crush Song for her song "Can't Blame a Girl For Trying".  In August 2015, Carpenter made an appearance at the D23 Expo, performing songs from her debut album.

In February 2016, Carpenter released the standalone single titled "Smoke and Fire". She performed the song at the 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards. On July 22, 2016, Carpenter announced that the lead single from her second studio album, "On Purpose", would be released later that same month. On August 12, 2016, Carpenter headlined the Bethlehem's Musikfest festival. In September 2016, Carpenter announced her second studio album would be titled Evolution and released on October 14 of the same year. Carpenter also announced that she would be embarking on her first headlining concert tour, the Evolution Tour, in autumn of 2016. Three promotional singles were released from the album—"All We Have Is Love", "Run and Hide", and "Thumbs"—with the third going on to be the album's second official single. In October 2016, Evolution debuted and peaked on the Billboard 200 at number 28, selling 13,000 copies in its first week. Carpenter later performed "Thumbs" on the Late Late Show with James Corden on April 17, 2017.

She collaborated with The Vamps and Mike Perry on the single "Hands", which was released in May 2017. In the summer of 2017, Carpenter embarked on her second headlining concert tour, the De-Tour. She released the single "Why" in July 2017, which peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100, becoming her second entry on the chart. In October 2017, Lost Kings released a single called "First Love" on which Carpenter is featured. She collaborated with Lindsey Stirling on the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from her holiday album Warmer in the Winter, which was released in October 2017. In December 2017, Carpenter released a cover of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". In March 2018, she released the single "Alien" with Jonas Blue, which they performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that month.

2018–2020: Singular and other ventures 
Carpenter's single "Almost Love" was released on June 6, 2018. Her studio album, titled Singular: Act I, was released on November 9, 2018. Two promotional singles were released ahead of the album, "Paris" and "Bad Time". The album's second official single, "Sue Me", was released on the same day as the album. Carpenter performed the track on The Today Show, as well as Live with Kelly and Ryan, in November 2018.

In early 2019, Carpenter was featured on Alan Walker's single "On My Way". In March 2019, she embarked on her third headlining concert tour, the Singular Tour, on which she performed the new songs "Pushing 20", and "Exhale". That same month, "Pushing 20" was released as Singular: Act II's lead single, while "Exhale" was released in May 2019 as the album's second single. On June 6, 2019, Carpenter released the album's third single, "In My Bed". On July 5, 2019, she performed on Good Morning Americas Summer Concert Series, where she debuted performances of "On My Way" and "In My Bed". She also performed the songs "Sue Me", "Why", and "Paris". On July 11, 2019, Carpenter released a promotional single titled "I'm Fakin" ahead of the album's release. Singular: Act II was released on July 19, 2019. Carpenter began work on a fifth studio album that month.

In February 2020, Carpenter released a single titled "Honeymoon Fades", followed by her Broadway debut in Mean Girls in March 2020. In April 2020, she appeared in a charity version of "If the World Was Ending", which supported Doctors Without Borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. In July 2020, Carpenter released another single, "Let Me Move You", from the Netflix film Work It, in which she also starred and executive produced. In September 2020, she featured on a remix of Zara Larsson's song "Wow". In December 2020, Carpenter was named to Forbes''' 30 Under 30 list in the Hollywood and entertainment category.

 2021–present: Emails I Can't Send 
In January 2021, Carpenter announced that she had signed with Universal Music Group's Island Records. Her first single under the new record label was "Skin", released on January 22, 2021. The song debuted at number 48 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first entry on the chart. Carpenter performed the song on The Late Late Show with James Corden and at the 32nd annual GLAAD Media Awards. The music video for "Skin" was released on February 1, 2021, with Carpenter being credited as the video's creative director. On September 9, 2021, Carpenter announced that the lead single from her upcoming fifth studio album would be called "Skinny Dipping" and co-written with Julia Michaels and JP Saxe. She promoted the song with a performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on October 29, 2021.

The album's second single, "Fast Times", was released on February 18, 2022. In March 2022, Carpenter performed "Skinny Dipping" and "Fast Times" at the Galaxy Creator Collective event hosted by Samsung. On July 1, 2022, Carpenter revealed that her fifth studio album would be titled Emails I Can't Send and released just two weeks later, on July 15, 2022. The third single "Vicious" was also released on July 1, 2022. Emails I Can't Send debuted and peak at number 23 on the Billboard 200 with 18,000 album equivalent units sold, making it her highest entry on the chart to date. A fourth single, "Because I Liked a Boy", was released alongside the album. Following the album's release, she performed a livestream concert at Samsung and Billboard's Summer of Galaxy annual event. In August 2022, Carpenter performed "Because I Liked a Boy" on The Late Late Show with James Corden. In November 2022, she announced that her song "Nonsense" would be the fifth single. Carpenter further promoted the song, which peaked at number 56 on the Hot 100, with a performance on the late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

In August 2022, Carpenter announced the Emails I Can't Send Tour, the first leg of which began in the fall of 2022. Her concert in Portland, Oregon, was cancelled due to a bomb threat. The threat was called into the Crystal Ballroom, where she was previously scheduled to perform, although the concert had already been moved to the Keller Auditorium to accommodate a larger audience.

Carpenter was the opening act on various Latin American, Asian, and Australian shows of the Eras Tour, the 2023–2024 concert tour by Taylor Swift. Carpenter performed 10 songs, including "Nonsense" and a cover of "Dreaming of You" (1995) by Selena, at the Mexican shows.

 Discography 

 Eyes Wide Open (2015)
 Evolution (2016)
 Singular: Act I (2018)
 Singular: Act II (2019)
 Emails I Can't Send'' (2022)

Concert tours

Headlining 
 Evolution Tour (2016–2017)
 The De-Tour (2017)
 Singular Tour (2019)
 Emails I Can't Send Tour (2022–2023)

Opening act 
 Ariana Grande – Dangerous Woman Tour (2017)
 The Vamps – UK Arena Tour (2017)
 Taylor Swift – The Eras Tour (2023–2024)

Filmography

Stage

Awards and nominations

References

External links 

 
 

1999 births
21st-century American actresses
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
People from Quakertown, Pennsylvania
American child actresses
American child singers
American film actresses
American television actresses
American voice actresses
Hollywood Records artists
Island Records artists
Living people
Music YouTubers
Singers from Pennsylvania
American contemporary R&B singers
Electropop musicians
Dance-pop musicians
American women pop singers