Caroline Sunshine

Caroline Sunshine

Caroline Sunshine at the Do Something Awards in August 2012.
Born Caroline Mohr Sunshine[1]
September 5, 1995 (age 21)
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Residence Orange County, California, U.S.
Education Orange Lutheran High School
Occupation
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active 2004–present
Website carolinesunshine.com

Caroline Mohr Sunshine (born September 5, 1995) is an American actress, dancer and singer. She is best known for her role as Barbara Winslow in the family film, Marmaduke, and for her co-starring role as flashy, rude European exchange student Tinka Hessenheffer on the Disney Channel comedy series Shake It Up.

Early life

Caroline Sunshine was born on September 5, 1995 in Atlanta, Georgia. To parents Thom and Karen Sunshine.[2] She was raised in Orange County, California, and has two younger brothers, John (born in 1997) and Christopher (born in 2000).[2][3] Sunshine began studying ballet at the age of 3 and landed her first lead role playing Goldilocks in a kindergarten play. Her kindergarten teacher was Mrs Sally Palmer. [2][3] She later moved on to acting with the Orange County Children's Theater and dancing competitively with the South Coast Performing Arts studio in Tustin, California.[3][4]

Career

Sunshine at the world premiere of Cars 2 in June 2011

In 2004 Sunshine started in theater and her stage credits include Annie Warbucks at the Orange County Children's Theatre, The Nutcracker at the Academy of Dance and South Coast Performing Arts, and Stage Door at the Lutheran High School of Orange County.[2][5] In 2006, Sunshine began going to professional auditions at the age of 11, and landed her first role in a commercial for Amazing Allysen the talking doll, as well as commercial work for Yoplait Go-Gurt, and Cap'n Crunch.[2][3][4] In 2010, Sunshine filmed her first pilot for the CBS sitcom, Team Spitz, co-starring as the teenage daughter of a high school coach played by Rob Riggle of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.[3][6][7] In the summer of that same year, she gained popular notoriety for her role as Barbara Winslow in her first feature film, Marmaduke, based on the comic strip of the same name.[3][4][6] In the fall of 2010, Sunshine landed what would become a co-starring role on the Disney Channel original series, Shake It Up as European exchange student, Tinka Hessenheffer alongside Kenton Duty as her flamboyant twin brother, Gunther Hessenheffer.[8][9][10][11] The glitzy brother/sister duo of Gunther and Tinka is said to be inspired by Ryan and Sharpay Evans of Disney's High School Musical franchise.[11][12][13][14] She was a recurring cast member during the first season, but was promoted to a regular character for the second and third seasons. The series ended in November 2013.

Sunshine appeared in the Disney Channel stars Christmas album Holidays Unwrapped; the album was released on New Years Day, she had a solo performance cover song of All I Want for Christmas Is You with featured as the tenth Song on the album. In 2014, Sunshine performed as the lead role of Campbell in the Non-Equity national tour of Bring It On the Musical. In June 2014 she filmed a Freeform pilot called Recovery Road based on Blake Nelson's novel of the same name, in which she plays a title role alongside Samantha Logan.[15] Neither Sunshine nor Logan would appear in the actual series, however. Logan was replaced by Jessica Sula and Sunshine's character was removed from the script. During 2015 Sunshine appeared in a TV Movie called Go Four Broke as Tiffani Brand. And earlier she appeared in the big screen production of The Outfield

Personal life

Sunshine currently lives in Orange County, California with her father Thom, her mother Karen, and her two younger brothers, Johnny and Chris.[2][3] In her free time she enjoys dancing, traveling, cooking, baking, and photography, as well as outdoor activities including going to the beach, surfing, snorkeling and rafting.[2][4][7][16] In February 2011, Sunshine became the spokesmodel for the teen fragrance, "Puppy Love 4 Girlz".[17][18] "Puppy Love" Fragrances is committed to helping homeless dogs and puppies, with a portion of all proceeds of the perfume going to local animal shelters.[18] In May 2011, Sunshine was named one of Dream Magazine's "Top 16 Under 16".[19]

In addition to her work with "Puppy Love", Sunshine is involved in several other charitable causes including the "Joyful Sewing Organization", which makes blankets for cancer patients, "Working Wardrobes", which provides assistance to underprivileged women and victims of domestic abuse, the Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Center, which offers in-home parenting classes to families to break the generational cycle of abuse, the "Adopt A Hero" program, which provides for the needs of soldiers and their families; the "Loaves and Fishes Ministry" which helps to feed the homeless, and the "Thirst Project" which is dedicated to providing clean drinking water to communities in developing nations.[16][20][21]

Filmography

Film roles
Year Title Role Notes
2010 Marmaduke Barbara Winslow
2012 Behind the Scenes Herself Documentary
2015 The Outfield Emily Jordan
Television roles
Year Title Role Notes
2008 What's the Word? Herself "Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board" (Season 1, Episode 7)
2010–13 Shake It Up Tinka Hessenheffer Main role (Season 2–3)
Recurring role (Season 1)
2012 A.N.T. Farm Ella "Some enchANTed evening" (Season 1, Episode 23)
2014 Fish Hooks Alexis Voice; "Algae Day/Bea Saves a Tree" (Season 3, Episode 14)

Stage

Year Title Role
2004 Annie Warbucks Annie Warbucks
2005 The Nutcracker Doll
2006 Stage Door Annie
2014 Bring It On the Musical Campbell

Discography

Promotional singles

Song Year Album
"Roam"[22]
(with Davis Cleveland, Kenton Duty and Adam Irigoyen)		 2012 Treasure Buddies

Other appearances

Title Year Album
"The Star I R" 2012 Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance
"All I Want For Christmas Is You" Disney Channel Holiday Playlist
"After Party" (with Roshon Fegan) 2013 Shake It Up: I <3 Dance

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
2011 Young Artist Awards Outstanding Young Ensemble in a TV Series
(shared with Bella Thorne, Zendaya, Davis Cleveland, Roshon Fegan, Adam Irigoyen and Kenton Duty)		Shake It Up Nominated [23]
2012 Young Artist Awards Outstanding Young Ensemble in a TV Series
(shared with Zendaya, Bella Thorne, Davis Cleveland, Roshon Fegan, Adam Irigoyen and Kenton Duty)		 Shake It Up [24]

References

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/CSUNSHINE/status/637783398770040832
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Caroline Sunshine is "Tinka"". Disney Channel Medianet. Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Tustin teen stars in 'Marmaduke'". The Orange County Register. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Meet Marmaduke Star Caroline Sunshine!'". Hollywood Teen 'Zine. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  5. ↑ "Disney Channel show stars actress with Chicago ties". WLS-TV: ABC Chicago. Retrieved 2010-12-16.
  6. 1 2 "Caroline Sunshine Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  7. 1 2 "Caroline Sunshine Interview'". Portrait Magazine. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  8. ↑ "Characters – Gunther & Tinka – Shake It Up! – Disney Channel". Disney Channel Online. Disney. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  9. ↑ "'Shake It Up': Meet Gunther & Tinka". ClevverTV. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  10. ↑ "1 on 1 with Caroline Sunshine & Kenton Duty". Fanlala. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  11. 1 2 "When It Comes to Gay Characters, When Will the Teen Channels Grow Up?". AfterElton.com. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
  12. ↑ "O.C. teen lands role in Disney Channel's new "Shake It Up" series". The Orange County Register. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  13. ↑ "Caroline Sunshine & Kenton Duty: Disney's New Ryan & Sharpay!". The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
  14. ↑ "Picks and Pans: Shake It Up". People Magazine. December 20, 2010.
  15. ↑ Andreeva, Nellie (Jun 3, 2014). "Caroline Sunshine In Pilot 'Recovery Road'". Deadline.com. Retrieved Jun 20, 2014.
  16. 1 2 "Top 16 Under 16: Caroline Sunshine". DreamMagazine.com. Retrieved May 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  17. ↑ "Caroline Sunshine Launches New Teen Fragrance". Net News Publisher. February 25, 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-03-27.
  18. 1 2 "Puppy Love Spokesmodel Caroline Sunshine". Puppy Love Frangrances. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
  19. ↑ "Dream Magazine – May 2011 Cover". DreamMagazine.com. Retrieved May 2011. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  20. ↑ "Caroline Sunshine on Pet Life Radio". Pet Life Radio. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  21. ↑ "Caroline Sunshine Interview". Star Chat Magazine. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
  22. ↑ "Roam (From "Treasure Buddies") – Single". iTunes. Retrieved 2012-02-26.
  23. ↑ "32nd Annual Young Artist Awards". YoungArtistAwards.org. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  24. ↑ "33rd Annual Young Artist Awards". YoungArtistAwards.org. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Retrieved March 31, 2012.

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