Lilla Crawford (born 2000 or 2001) is an American actress best known for portraying the title role in the 2012

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revival of '' Annie''. She made her feature-film debut playing

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in the 2014

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film adaptation of ''

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''. From 2017 to 2020, Crawford had voiced Sunny, the title character, in the

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series '' Sunny Day'' and has starred in the

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series ''

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'' starting in 2018.

Career

Crawford began her career at the age of six appearing in commercials, and since then has appeared in several more. She states that she begged her mother to find her an agent because it was her dream to be an animated voice. She moved from Los Angeles to New York City, where she made her Broadway debut in 2011 as Debbie in the closing cast of the musical ''

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''. After a nationwide search, she won the title role in

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’s 2012 revival of the

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-winning musical '' Annie'' at the age of 11, after having previously been in a community theatre production of the same show, where she played Bert Healy. She competed against over 5,000 other girls auditioning to play Annie over a span of nine months. After her initial audition in New York she had five or six callbacks, the final one with a dozen girls. While performing in ''Annie'', she filmed the Broadway.com video blog "Simply Red" for the show, which earned her a broadway.com title of "most clicked stars of 2013". She played "The Little Girl" in ''

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'' at Avery Fisher Hall, alongside

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, and many others. Crawford played Little Katie in a workshop production of ''Home the Musical'' by Scott Alan in New York City. She also appeared in a workshop of ''Melissa Arctic''. Crawford played

in the

film adaptation of the

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''. The film was released on December 25, 2014. As of 2017, Crawford voices the leading character on the Nickelodeon animated series '' Sunny Day''. She also starred in the Netflix series ''

'', based on the book series ''Who Was''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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Star File: Lilla Crawford
{{DEFAULTSORT:Crawford, Lilla Living people American child actresses 21st-century American actresses American film actresses American stage actresses American voice actresses Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Actresses from Los Angeles 2000s births