Madison Pettis

Madison Michelle Pettis is an American actress, model, and voice performer. She is best known for her television and film roles, including portraying Peyton Kelly in the 2007 feature film The Game Plan, playing Sophie Martinez on the Disney Channel series Cory in the House, voicing Izzy in Jake and the Never Land Pirates, and appearing as Allie Brooks in Life with Boys and Janelle in Lab Rats.

Pettis was born on July 22, 1998, in Arlington, Texas. Her father, Steven Pettis, is African-American, and her mother, Michelle Dallava, is of Italian, Irish, and French ancestry. She grew up alongside an older brother, Steven Pettis Jr., who served in the United States Army, and a sister, Antoinette Mia Pettis, who also works as a model and actress. Pettis was heavily involved in dance from an early age, taking up to ten dance classes per week prior to the expansion of her acting career.

Pettis was discovered at the age of five after her mother entered her into an annual cover search for FortWorthChild, a local parenting magazine based in her hometown. She began her professional acting and performing career appearing on the children's program Barney & Friends from 2005 to 2006. Playing the character Bridget, she sang, danced, and acted on the series.

In 2006, Pettis won her first major film role as Peyton Kelly, the long-lost daughter of Dwayne Johnson's quarterback character, in the 2007 Disney film The Game Plan. Following this breakthrough, she appeared in several films in 2008, portraying Bailey Bryant in Free Style, Lorena in Seven Pounds, and ghost Tara Roland in Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out?, a role she later reprised in the 2014 sequel Mostly Ghostly: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend?. Her additional film work includes voice and supporting roles in Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! and A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa.

On television, Pettis starred as Sophie Martinez, the president's daughter, on Disney Channel's Cory in the House from 2007 to 2008, also guest starring as the character in an episode of Hannah Montana. She appeared as Isabelle Tyler in an episode of The 4400 and served as a commentator for the 2007 Disney Channel Games. She was cast in two major roles in 2011, providing the voice of Izzy on Jake and the Never Land Pirates and starring as Allie Brooks on the Canadian series Life with Boys. From 2012 to 2015, she had a recurring role as Janelle on Lab Rats, and she later secured guest and voice roles in projects including The Fosters, The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar, and the series The Lion Guard.

Beyond acting, Pettis has worked as a model and brand ambassador for fashion lines such as NFL Apparel and Love Pastry. A supporter of military families due to her brother's service, she became the youngest entertainer ever invited to tour globally with the USO. In her personal life, she has a dairy allergy and was in a relationship with NBA player Michael Porter Jr. from late 2016 through mid-2017.