Laura Marano

 Laura Marie Marano (born November 29, 1995)[is an American actress and singer. Her character as Ally Dawson in the Disney Channel series Austin & Ally is her most well-known. Marano was among the five original classmates in Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?. She was in Without a Trace for three seasons, and Back to You. Marano played in the independent film A Sort of Homecoming, the Disney Channel Original Movie Bad Hair Day and the Netflix original film The Perfect Date.In 2015, she signed with Big Machine Records and released her debut single "Boombox" on March 11, 2016 as well as "La La" later in the year. On October 5, 2018, Laura Marano released the single "Me" as an independent artist.Marano was born in Los Angeles, California. Damiano Marano is her younger brother and Ellen Marano is her former actress. Her father is Italian. Marano first got exposed to acting at her mother's theatre. When she was five, Marano started to express an interest in acting professionally to her parents and her older sister Vanessa who was also an actress.Marano began to learn how to play the pianowhen she was nine