Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter (born May 11, 1999) is an American singer and actress. She made her acting debut with an appearance in the television crime show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and had a recurring role on Fox’s The Goodwin Games. She starred in the Disney Channel comedy series Girl Meets World (2014–2017), along with the Disney Channel Original Movie Adventures in Babysitting in 2016.

Carpenter has starred in several feature films, including Horns (2013), The Hate U Give (2018), The Short History of the Long Road (2019), Clouds (2020), and Emergency (2022). She also starred in three Netflix films, Tall Girl (2019), its sequel (2022), and Work It (2020).

In 2014, her debut music single “Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying” and EP of the same name were released. She released her debut album, Eyes Wide Open, in 2015 and three additional studio albums, Evolution (2016), Singular: Act I (2018), and Singular: Act II (2019). She released a fifth studio album, Emails I Can’t Send, in 2022.

Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter was born on May 11, 1999, in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, to David and Elizabeth Carpenter, and raised in East Greenville. She was raised alongside three older sisters and homeschooled. At age 10, she began posting videos on YouTube of her singing. Her father built a recording studio for her to fuel her passion for music. In 2011, she placed third in a singing contest, The Next Miley Cyrus Project, run by Miley Cyrus.

Carpenter’s first acting role was in 2011 in a guest role on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Around the same time, she performed as part of the Hunan Broadcasting System’s Gold Mango Audience Festival program in China, singing “Something’s Got a Hold on Me”. Carpenter also had a recurring role in the Fox sitcom The Goodwin Games, which aired in the summer of 2012.

She appeared in a 2013 film Horns and performed a song, “Smile”, for an album, Disney Fairies: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust”; the song charted on Radio Disney. In Sofia the First, she had a recurring role as Princess Vivian, in which she also performed the song “All You Need” with show star Ariel Winter.

In January 2013, Carpenter was cast in a Disney Channel series Girl Meets World. In 2016, Carpenter starred in a Disney Channel Original Movie, Adventures in Babysitting. The same year, she also appeared in a Pasadena Playhouse production of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell: A Pirate’s Christmas.

In 2018, Carpenter appeared in The Hate U Give, based on the novel. The film was released in October 2018. In 2018, she was cast a drama film The Short History of the Long Road. In May 2018, Carpenter was included in Nylon magazine’s “25 Gen Z’ers Changing The World”. In July 2019, she was cast in a film adaptation of The Distance From Me to You. She is set to star and produce the film with Girl Meets World co-star Danielle Fishel . In January 2019, Carpenter was cast in a Netflix film, Tall Girl.

In March 2020, she made her Broadway debut in Mean Girls as Cady Heron, a run intended to be three months; however, the show closed mid-month due to the COVID-19 pandemic closing Broadway and eventually closed permanently on January 7, 2021. She also starred in Clouds, a 2020 teen drama film. In December 2020, she was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in the Hollywood and entertainment category.

In April 2021, Carpenter was cast in Amazon Studios’ comedy-drama thriller film Emergency, which is based on a 2018 short film of the same name. In September 2021, she appeared in the third volume of Prime Video’s special, Savage X Fenty Show, focused on that year’s Savage X Fenty fashion show, as one of the models. In November 2021, she became a brand ambassador for Samsung USA as part of the company’s “Team Galaxy” partnership program. In January 2022, Emergency premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival followed by a limited theatrical release and a Prime Video release in May 2022. The following month, she appeared in a Netflix teen romantic comedy sequel, Tall Girl 2. In June 2022, Carpenter announced her debut fragrance in partnership with Scent Beauty, called Sweet Tooth, which would be released in September 2022, with samples made available in the U.S. that month.

In 2014, Carpenter launched a music career with the release of a single, “Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying”. The song is the title track on her debut EP of the same name and was released in April 2014. Carpenter is featured on the Girl Meets World theme song, “Take On The World”. She performed the song “Stand Out” in the Disney Channel movie How to Build a Better Boy, which premiered in August 2014. In July 2014, Carpenter contributed lead vocals to Disney Channel Circle of Stars’ cover version of “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?”