 christy carlson romano (born christy michelle romano, march 20, 1984) is an american actress and singer. she is known for her role in the sitcom even stevens and as the voice of the title character in the animated series kim possible. she also was the voice of yuffie kisaragi in kingdom hearts and final fantasy vii advent children. ==early life== romano began her career at six years old when she was cast in several national tours of broadway shows, including annie, the will rogers follies with keith carradine, and the sound of music with marie osmond. she made her first feature film appearance in 1996 as a singing "chiquita banana" in woody allen's everyone says i love you. she also appeared in henry fool (1997), and looking for an echo (2000).  ==career== romano made her broadway debut in 1998 in the musical parade by alfred uhry and jason robert brown as mary phagan.christy carlson romano profile in 2002, romano became the first person to act in three disney channel projects simultaneously, supplementing her work on even stevens with a starring role in cadet kelly, alongside hilary duff, and voice acting as the title character in kim possible. she was nominated for a daytime emmy for her work on kim possible. the show inspired an adventure scavenger hunt activity at disney's epcot which ran for over five years, as well as two disney channel movies kim possible: so the drama and kim possible: a sitch in time. she voiced yuffie kisaragi in the english version of the movie final fantasy vii advent children, as well as in the disney/square game kingdom hearts.  throughout her teens and twenties, romano starred in movies for 'abc family and [[disn
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