Before she was a Billboard Hot 100-topping artist, most people were introduced to Sabrina Carpenter through their television screens.
After getting her start as a child actor taking small parts in various films and TV shows — including episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Orange Is the New Black — the singer-actress landed her breakout role on Girl Meets World in 2014 playing Maya Hart, the fierce, rough-around-the-edges best friend of Rowan Blanchard’s Riley Matthews. At the same time, she was working on launching her music career with Disney Music Group’s Hollywood Records, with whom she signed at age 14 and released four albums over the course of the next five years: 2015’s Eyes Wide Open, 2016’s EVOLution, 2018’s Singular Act I and 2019’s Singular Act II.
Eventually, she moved to Island Records in 2021 and dropped her breakthrough album Emails I Can’t Send the following year. Over the next two years, she would earn her first Hot 100 entry with 2021’s “Skin,” followed by her first top 10 hit with “Espresso” in 2024 and finally, her first No. 1 on the chart with “Please Please Please” a couple months after that. “Music is the only career that is fully, 100 percent me,” Carpenter told Billboard in 2021 of her preference for singing over acting.
Even so, the multi-hyphenate has continued to star in a number of acting roles in between all that slow-but-steady success with her music career, lending her talents to numerous films, TV shows and animated projects since debuting on Girl Meets World. Keep reading to see a full list of the characters she’s played since her 2014 Hollywood breakthrough to now.
