Olivia "Chachi" Hildén (née Gonzales) is an American dancer, choreographer, teacher and actress. She was a member of the

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I.aM.mE I.aM.mE (which stands for inspire, motivate, and energize) is an American hip-hop dance crew from Houston, Texas. The group rose to prominence after being crowned champions in the sixth season of '' America's Best Dance Crew''. The three fou ...

, which won the sixth season of ''

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'' in 2011.

Personal life

Olivia Gonzales was born in

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. She has an older sister. In 2018, Gonzales began dating Finnish stunt performer and actor

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, having met while filming the television series ''Ultimate Expedition''. They got engaged in August 2018 and in May 2019 announced via Instagram and YouTube that Gonzales was pregnant. They married on September 28, 2019, in Lapland. On November 25, 2019, Gonzales gave birth to a baby girl and in April 2020, they moved from Los Angeles to

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, relocating to

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in 2020.

Career

Aged six, she was enrolled at a local dance studio and trained as a ballet dancer. Three years later at a dance event, she witnessed a

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dance crew for the first time, including Marvelous Motion, whose members (Phillip Chbeeb, Di Zhang and Brandon Harrell) would later become her fellow crew members in I.aM.mE. Gonzales enrolled at Lanier Middle School, where hip hop was taught and in 2010, after the disbandment of Marvelous Motion, auditions were held to create a new crew, I.aM.mE. Gonzalez auditioned successfully and became the crew's youngest member. Together they entered ''America's Best Dance Crew: Season of the Superstars''.

Appearances

Gonzales was one of the backup dancers for the Tribute to Britney Spears as part of the

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. In 2012 she made a dance appearance with I.aM.mE in the Disney TV programme, '' Shake It Up''. In 2013, she choreographed the dance to the second theme song of the

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franchise

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, in "We Are Monster High". She took the lead role in the 2014 feature film ''The Legend of DarkHorse County'', directed by Shawn Welling. Gonzales was in the cast of the second season of ''

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'' in 2014. In May 2015, she judged the grand finals of the ''Jagthug World Dance Off'' competition, held at the

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in Manila.

Awards

In 2012, Gonzalez was named "Teen Choreographer of the Year" at the World of Dance 2012 Industry Awards. She won the Remi Award for Best Supporting Actress for ''The Legend of DarkHorse County'' at the 2014 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival awards. In 2015, she won the silver Remi Award for Original Comedy Short for the ''In the News'' episode "Dog Day" and for the ''AXI'' episode "Alive" for Best Dramatic Original Short Film.

Filmography

References

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