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Carly Brook Schroeder (born October 18, 1990) is an American former actress and U.S. Army officer. She is best known for playing Serena Baldwin, the daughter of Scotty Baldwin and Lucy Coe in the General Hospital spin-off Port Charles. She also had a recurring role on the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire. In 2007, she played the lead in Gracie, a film inspired by a real-life tragedy during the childhood of sibling actors Elisabeth Shue and Andrew Shue.
In February 2019, Schroeder announced that she would be joining the United States Army. She attended Officer Candidate School, graduating with a commission as a second lieutenant on September 20, 2019. She is currently an infantry officer with the rank of captain.
In 1997, American Broadcasting Company (ABC) hired Schroeder to play Serena Baldwin on Port Charles. She was twice nominated for a Young Artist Award for her work on the show; once in 1999 and again in 2000, as well as a Young Star Award Young Star Awards at IMDb.com nomination in 1999 for Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Daytime TV Program. Schroeder then appeared as Melina Bianco in The Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire. Originally booked as a one-time appearance, she shot twelve episodes of the show and also appeared in The Lizzie McGuire Movie in 2003, in the same role.
In 2003, Schroeder auditioned for her first feature film and won the role of Millie in the thriller Mean Creek. The movie won wide acclaim for Schroeder and the rest of the cast, winning the Humanitas Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and also being awarded the 2005 Independent Spirit Festival Special Distinction Award for best ensemble cast.
Gracie was Shroeder's next film role, in 2006. In order to win the role, she began an intense three-month work-out that included a daily regimen of not only physical fitness, but also of training in advanced soccer skills with professional athletes and trainers. While Gracie was in theaters, Schroeder's other movie, Eye of the Dolphin, was receiving attention, winning two awards from the 2007 International Family Film Festival: International Family Film Festival a Best Child Actor win for Schroeder, and a Drama Feature win for the movie. The movie has been well received and continues to receive honors, including being named as an Official Selection for the Tribeca Film Festival, Delray Beach Film Festival, Kids First! Film Festival, Tiburon Film Festival, USA Family Film Festival and the Worldfest Houston Film festival. At the 2007 Kids First Awards Kids First Awards in October, Schroeder received the award for Best Emerging Actress, while the film received the Best Feature Award (ages 12–18). Her other movies are Forget Me Not (2009), and Slightly Single in L.A., which completed filming in 2009 and was released in 2012. She was also featured in Creepers (2011) and Prep School (2015).
Schroeder graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in June 2009, and graduated from California Lutheran University in 2014 with a double major in communications and psychology, and a minor in theater.
In early July 2017, it was announced that Schroeder would return as Serena Baldwin to General Hospital to honor the late Peter Hansen, who had died in April 2017, who had portrayed her grandfather, Lee Baldwin.
| 2003 | The Lizzie McGuire Movie | Melina Bianco | ||
| 2004 | Mean Creek | Millie | ||
| 2005 | We All Fall Down | Charity | ||
| 2006 | Firewall | Sarah Stanfield | ||
| 2007 | Gracie | Gracie Bowen | ||
| Prey | Jessica Newman | |||
| Eye of the Dolphin | Alyssa | |||
| 2009 | Forget Me Not | Sandy Channing | ||
| 2011 | Rites of Passage | Carly | ||
| 2012 | Slightly Single in L.A. | Becca | ||
| 2015 | Prep School | Kyra Matheson | Best Actress in a Dramatic Feature, 2015 Studio City International Film Festival | |
| 2017 | One of Us | Venus | ||
| 2018 | Ouija House | Laurie |
| 1997–2003 | Port Charles | Serena Baldwin | Contract role | |
| 1997–2001, 2017 | General Hospital | Serena Baldwin | Recurring status | |
| 2000 | Growing Up Brady | Susan Olsen | Television film | (2026). 9780967378503, Good Guy Entertainment. ISBN 9780967378503 Based on the autobiography written by actor Barry Williams with Chris Kreski and a foreword by Robert Reed. |
| Dawson's Creek | Molly Sey | Episodes: "A Family Way", "The Unusual Suspects" | ||
| 2001 | Virtually Casey | Jennifer Collins | Television film directed by Ellen Gittelsohn | |
| 2001–2003 | Lizzie McGuire | Melina Bianco | Recurring role | |
| 2002 | George Lopez | Ashley | Episode: "Token of Unappreciation" | |
| 2003 | Cold Case | Brandi Beaudry | Episode: "The Sleepover" | |
| 2008 | Ghost Whisperer | Lisa Benton | Episode: "Home But Not Alone" | |
| Prayers for Bobby | Joy Griffith | Television film (Lifetime) | ||
| 2009 | Kim Garnet | Episode: "Crush" | ||
| 2018 | Deadly Shores | Anna | Television film (Lifetime) |
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