It's not every actor who can start out on Nickelodeon at age 12 and successfully transition to serious grown-up roles. But Ciara Bravo has made it look easy.
Discovered by a modeling agent when she was a 9-year-old contestant in a county fair beauty pageant near her family home in Alexandria, Kentucky, Bravo started out doing commercial work.
She had an uncredited role in Angels & Demons and garnered her first break when she landed a role playing a younger sister in the popular Nickelodeon musical comedy series Big Time Rush, about a hockey boy band, which premiered in 2009.
Even at a young age, Bravo quickly realized she was more interested in being an actor versus a celebrity. By the time she was 16, she snagged a role in the Fox medical.
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