Brenda Song

Brenda Song (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress and former child model. She is known for her appearances on the Disney Channel, having starred in four Disney Channel Original Movies, one Disney Channel Original Series, and having guest-starred in six other Disney series.

Song was born in Carmichael, California (a suburb of Sacramento) to a Hmong American father and a Thai American mother.[1] Her father is a second-grade teacher and her mother is a homemaker.[2] Her family immigrated to America from Laos in 1976. Song has two younger brothers, Timmy and Nathan, with whom she and her parents live in Greater Los Angeles. Song holds a black belt in Taekwando and was named an All-American Scholar in ninth grade. She began acting and modeling at the tender age of six. Her first television appearance was in a Little Caesars commercial. She also played a minor role in a skit on MADtv. Song got her start in acting when auditioning at the John Robert Powers acting agency. She began her professional performing career almost from infancy, and was appearing on television in commercials, series guest roles, and minor movie parts from the age of six. While growing up, she wanted to take ballet lessons, but her mother refused and put her in Tae Kwon Do lessons.