Dove Olivia Cameron (born Chloe Celeste Hosterman; January 15, 1996) is an American singer and actress. She has received various accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award, an American Music Award, an MTV Video Music Award and two Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award. She also has a large following on social media. Her Instagram has more than 48 million followers, and TikTok has more than 12 million.
Cameron rose to fame for her dual role of the eponymous characters in the Disney Channel comedy series Liv and Maddie (2013–17), for which she won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming. Cameron continued her work with the Disney Channel and portrayed Mal in the Descendants franchise (2015–21). In 2016, Cameron starred in the NBC live television musical Hairspray Live!. On stage, from 2018 to 2019, she played the role of Cher Horowitz in an off-Broadway rendition of the 1995 film Clueless, and in 2019, she debuted on the London stage with her portrayal of Clara Johnson in the musical The Light in the Piazza. Cameron further starred in the comedy thriller Vengeance (2022).
As a singer, Cameron made her debut with the soundtrack album to Liv and Maddie (2015). In the same year, she released her debut single, "If Only", which was included in the soundtrack album for Descendants. The album topped the US Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She also participated in two soundtrack albums for Descendants: Descendants 2, Descendants 3 (2017–2019). Her debut musical release, Bloodshot / Waste, was released in 2019. In 2022, she released the single "Boyfriend", which received commercial and critical success, reached the top 20 in the Billboard Hot 100, and was certified platinum by the RIAA.
Early life
Cameron was born Chloe Celeste Hosterman on January 15, 1996, in Bainbridge Island, Washington, to Philip Alan Hosterman and Bonnie Wallace, who later divorced. She has an older sister, Claire Hosterman, who is a vocal coach. During her childhood, Cameron attended Sakai Intermediate School. At age eight, she began acting in community theater at Bainbridge Performing Arts. Six years later, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she sang in Burbank High School's National Championship Show Choir.
Cameron has stated that she is of French descent and speaks some French. She also has Russian, Slovak and Hungarian ancestry. She has said she was bullied throughout her entire school experience, from fifth grade through the end of high school. Regardless of the pressure at school and fitting in, Cameron stayed focused on her dreams of achieving success in entertainment: "I became very passionate about . I fully immersed myself." Her father died in 2011 when she was 15. Following his death, Cameron changed her legal name to Dove in honor of her father, who called her by that nickname.
