Bridgit Claire Mendler [ 4 ] born December 18, [ 5 ] is an American entrepreneur and former actress and singer. She first became known as a child actress and continued acting into adulthood, which overlapped with a musical career in the s.
After enrolling at MIT and Harvard , from to , she co-founded a satellite data startup, which is cited as an example of a successful career reinvention. She also starred in the Disney Channel film Lemonade Mouth Mendler began her music career contributing to the soundtrack of Lemonade Mouth in , and signed with Hollywood Records that same year. Her debut studio album, Hello My Name Is She then embarked on two concert tours: Live in Concert and Summer Tour β With the Black Box record label, she independently released an extended play , Nemesis , which peaked at number 46 on Billboard 's Independent Albums chart.
She then embarked on the Nemesis Tour β From to , Mendler served as ambassador to nonprofit First Book , which encourages reading, and Give with Target , to raise funds to reform schools in the United States. Mendler was born in Washington, D. I'm just going to study something that will be interesting and doable from the road and just take care of my general education courses for now. I want to know something outside of what I do. In May , she announced on Twitter that she started a graduate program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT with a focus on improving social media: "As an entertainer, for years I struggled with social media because I felt like there was a more loving and human way to connect with fans.
In , Mendler got her first voice acting role in the animated Indian film The Legend of Buddha , in which she portrayed young Buddha. When she was 13 years old, she got her first acting role as a guest star on the soap opera General Hospital. In , Mendler made her film debut in the film adaption of the Alice series , titled Alice Upside Down. Mendler starred alongside Alyson Stoner and Lucas Grabeel. In , it was announced that Mendler would play the role of Kristen Gregory in the film adaption of the popular teen novel series The Clique by Lisi Harrison.
Mendler had the role of Kristen, a girl who attends OCD on a scholarship, and works hard to keep her good grades. The film drew 2. Mendler portrayed the role of Juliet Van Heusen, [ 40 ] a vampire who later forms a romance with David Henrie 's character Justin Russo.
