Chelsea Royce Tavares is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Cranberry on the
Nickelodeon
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series ''
Unfabulous
''Unfabulous'' is an American teen sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon. The series is about an "unfabulous" middle schooler named Addie Singer, played by Emma Roberts. The show, which premiered on September 12, 2004, was one of the most-watched prog ...
'', Autumn Williams on the Nickelodeon series ''
Just Jordan
''Just Jordan'' is an American television sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon as a part of the network's TEENick lineup. The series debuted on January 7, 2007, and was canceled on August 23, 2008, with 29 episodes produced.
Since the series' cancel ...
'', Patience Roberts in
The CW
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series ''
All American'', and the voice and motion capture for
Nora Harris in the video game ''
The Last of Us Part II
''The Last of Us Part II'' is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Set five years after ''The Last of Us'' (2013), the game focuses on two playable charac ...
''.
Early life
Chelsea Royce Tavares was born in the
Panorama City
Panorama City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley. It has a generally young age range as well as the highest population density in the Valley. Ethnically, more than half of its population was born ...
neighborhood of
Los Angeles
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. Her ancestors were from
Brava, Cape Verde
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.
Her younger sister is Kylee Russell, also an actress who starred as Karin Daniels in the 2007
Disney
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television film ''
Jump In!
''Jump In!'' is a 2007 Disney Channel Original Movie, which premiered on January 12, 2007. It was released on Disney Channel UK on April 27, 2007. The film, starring Corbin Bleu and Keke Palmer, revolves around a young boxer, Izzy Daniels (Bleu) ...
''
Career
Prior to appearing in ''Unfabulous'', Tavares guest starred in the series ''
The District
''The District'' is an American crime drama and police procedural television series which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000, to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s police department.
Pre ...
'' and ''
The Practice
''The Practice'' is an American legal drama television series created by David E. Kelley centering on partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The show ran for eight seasons on ABC, from March 4, 1997, to May 16, 2004. It won an Emmy in 1 ...
''. In 2004, she joined ''
Unfabulous
''Unfabulous'' is an American teen sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon. The series is about an "unfabulous" middle schooler named Addie Singer, played by Emma Roberts. The show, which premiered on September 12, 2004, was one of the most-watched prog ...
'' as a recurring cast member in the first season before becoming a series regular the final two seasons. Shortly after, she joined the main cast of another Nickelodeon series ''
Just Jordan
''Just Jordan'' is an American television sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon as a part of the network's TEENick lineup. The series debuted on January 7, 2007, and was canceled on August 23, 2008, with 29 episodes produced.
Since the series' cancel ...
'', in the show's second and final season. Her other television acting credits include ''
Zeke and Luther
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'', ''
CSI: Miami
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'', ''
The Middle'', and ''
Ringer
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''. In 2011, she appeared in the feature film ''
Fright Night
''Fright Night'' is a 1985 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Tom Holland (in his directorial debut) and produced by Herb Jaffe. It stars Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Roddy McDowall, Amanda Bearse, Jonathan Stark, D ...
''.
She is currently starring as Patience Roberts in the hit
CW Network's series, ''
All American''. In video games, she voiced Glory in ''
Fallout 4
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'' and voiced and
mo-capped Nora Harris in ''
The Last of Us Part II
''The Last of Us Part II'' is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Set five years after ''The Last of Us'' (2013), the game focuses on two playable charac ...
''.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Discography
References
External links
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21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
American child actresses
American film actresses
American musicians of Cape Verdean descent
American television actresses
American voice actresses
Living people
People from Panorama City, Los Angeles
Year of birth missing (living people)