Olivia Rodrigo | |
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Rodrigo at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival | |
| Born | Olivia Isabel Rodrigo February 20, 2003 Murrieta, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2015–present |
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| Awards | Full list |
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| Labels | Geffen |
| Website | oliviarodrigo |
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Olivia Isabel Rodrigo (born February 20, 2003) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress. She first became well known for her roles on the Disney television shows Bizaardvark (2016–2019) and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019–2022).
Rodrigo signed with Geffen Records in 2020. She released her first song "Drivers License" in 2021 which made her popular. She released her first studio album Sour the same year. The album won her three Grammy Awards. A Disney+ documentary, Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U was released in 2022. Rodrigo then released two more studio albums, Guts (2023) and You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love (2026), which were popular and had good reviews from critics.
Rodrigo has had three Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs and two Billboard 200 number-one albums. She has also won an American Music Award, seven Billboard Music Awards, and three MTV Video Music Awards. Time named her the 2021 Entertainer of the Year and Billboard named her Woman of the Year in 2022.
Her music has been seen as "emotional" power ballads with her music focused on ending relationships, mental health, and sadness. Her music has been popular with critics, journalists, and her fans. Slate called her "Gen-Z's most [talented] new artist". Other media sources have called her one of Gen Z's best artists and the musical voice of this generation.
Rodrigo also focuses on fundraisers for women's education and health. She gives out money to charities that help find cures for rare diseases, support abortion and education programs. In 2026, she hosted the charity music concert Daisy Chain Fields in California.
Olivia Isabel Rodrigo was born on February 20, 2003 in Murrieta, California. Her parents are Jennifer, a school teacher, and Chris, a family therapist. She grew up in Temecula, California. Rodrigo was born half-deaf in her left ear. Rodrigo is Filipino American. Her mother also has German and Irish ancestry. She said that her paternal great-grandfather emigrated from the Philippines to the United States when he was a teenager. She grew up listening to her parents' favorite alternative rock music, such as the bands No Doubt, Pearl Jam, the White Stripes, and Green Day.
Rodrigo went to Lisa J. Mails Elementary School in Murrieta. She was part of a musical theater group after her classes ended. She later went to Dorothy McElhinney Middle School in Murrieta for a year, until she moved to Los Angeles. She moved there after her television career began in 2016. She was homeschooled from then until her graduation in 2021.

At age five, her parents signed her up for singing lessons with Jennifer Dustman. She would sign up Rodrigo in many local singing competitions. Dustman told Rodrigo's parents to put her in acting lessons. She began taking piano lessons at age 9. Rodrigo first became interested in songwriting after listening to country music songs by Taylor Swift, and was playing guitar by age 12.
As a child, she first appeared in an Old Navy commercial.
In 2015, at age twelve, Rodrigo had her first acting role. She played Grace Thomas in direct-to-video movie An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success. She was cast in Disney Channel's Bizaardvark in 2016. She played Paige Olvera, a guitarist, on the show. She played the role for three seasons. In 2017, she appeared in an episode of New Girl.
In February 2019, she was cast in the starring role of Nini Salazar-Roberts on the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, which premiered in November of that year. Many critics and fans liked her role and acting. For the series, Rodrigo wrote and sang "All I Want", which was released in November 2019. She left the show at the end of its third season to focus on her music career, which she began outside of Orlando, Florida. In 2020, she was a musical guest for The Disney Family Singalong.

Rodrigo signed with Geffen Records in 2020, as she would be moving to Jacksonville, Florida to pursue a music career. She wanted a record deal that gave her ownership of the masters of her music. On January 8, 2021, she released her first song, "Drivers License". She co-wrote it with producer Dan Nigro. A week after its release, "Drivers License" became popular, and it broke records on Spotify. It also broke the record for the most streams ever in a day for a non-holiday song with over 15.7 million global streams on January 11 and over 17 million global streams the next day. It then broke another Spotify record for the first song in history to hit 80 million streams in seven days. The song came out at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number-one in many countries. When her first song became number one, Rodrigo said: "It's been the absolute craziest week of my life ... My entire life just, like, [changed] in an instant."
On April 1, 2021, Rodrigo released another song, "Deja Vu". It came out at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. This made her the first artist to have their first two songs in the top 10 of the Hot 100. Her third song, "Good 4 U", came out on May 14, 2021. It became her second song to reach number one on the Hot 100. Rodrigo release her first studio album, Sour, on May 21, 2021. It got good reviews. In a review by Slate, the critic said that the album's first three songs helped create Rodrigo's "early status as Gen-Z's most [talented] new artist". Clash said that Rodrigo was seen as one of Generation Z's best artists. Variety called her "the voice of her generation" in its cover story of Rodrigo. Sour came out at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. It spent five weeks at number one. This was the longest time at number one for an album by a female artist in 2021.

In June 2021, Rodrigo released Sour Prom, a prom-themed concert movie on YouTube. Three days later, Time named her Entertainer of the Year. In an Instagram post on December 24, 2021, Rodrigo uploaded a short video of a Christmas song called "The Bels". She wrote and recorded it when she was five years old. By the end of the year, Billboard said that Rodrigo ended the year with the most songs sold. She had eight songs on the year-end Global 200 chart, including "Drivers License" at number four, "Good 4 U" at number nine, and "Deja Vu" at number 27. In the United States and the United Kingdom, Sour was the third and fourth bestselling album of 2021. Sour and "Drivers License" were also Spotify's most streamed album and song in the world. To promote Sour, Rodrigo began her first tour, the Sour Tour. It ran from April to July 2022.
Disney+ released a documentary movie about Rodrigo titled Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U. It is about the making of Sour. It was released on March 25, 2022. Rodrigo was nominated seven times at the 64th Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist, Album of the Year for Sour, and Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Drivers License". She won the awards for Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album for Sour, and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Drivers License". In 2022, while creating her next album Guts, Rodrigo went to a poetry class at the Jacksonville University. She used one of her homework assignments to write the song "Lacy".

On August 16, 2023, Rodrigo became the youngest artist to receive the BRIT Billion Award. She won this award for having over one billion digital streams in the United Kingdom. She was the 19th artist to receive a BRIT Billion Award. Rodrigo's second album, Guts was released on September 8, 2023, and was at the top the Billboard 200. She said that the album was about growing up and learning about herself. When she was writing the album, Rodrigo said she felt as if she had grown "ten years" between the ages of 18 and 20. Guts was very popular with the critics; BBC News called it the most popular album of 2023. The album's main song, "Vampire", was released on June 30. It became Rodrigo's third song to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100. This made her the first artist ever to have songs from her first two albums at No. 1 on the Hot 100. The album's second song, "Bad Idea Right?", was released on August 11, 2023. It reached the top 10 in the United States and United Kingdom.
On October 9, 2023, Rodrigo sang songs from Guts at a special concert for American Express in Los Angeles. All the money made from ticket sales went to her Fund 4 Good nonprofit organization. She released an EP titled Guts: The Secret Tracks and it became one of the top sellers during Record Store Day. On November 3, Rodrigo released the song "Can't Catch Me Now" for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. That same year, she was a musical guest for Saturday Night Live for a second time. She was a musical guest before in 2021.

To support her album Guts, Rodrigo began her second tour, the Guts World Tour. The tour ran from February to August 2024 in North America, United Kingdom and Europe. On March 20, 2024, Rodrigo announced that she would release a 'deluxe version' of Guts with five new songs at her tour stop in Chicago. She released Guts (Spilled) and the songs "Obsessed" and "So American" on March 22, 2024.
On April 13, 2024, Rodrigo made a special guest appearance at No Doubt's Coachella show, where she sang with them.
On October 2, 2024, Rodrigo announced that a documentary movie about her Guts World Tour would be made into a movie. The concert was filmed during her two dates in Inglewood, California on August 20 and 21, 2024. The movie was released on October 29, 2024 on Netflix.
In November 2024, Rodrigo was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for "Can't Catch Me Now". That same month, it was announced that Rodrigo was to appear at BST Hyde Park Show in June 2025. In November 2024, Rodrigo became the global brand ambassador for Lancôme.
In January 2025, Rodrigo performed at FireAid, a benefit concert to raise money for the people affected by the January 2025 Southern California wildfires. That same month, she appeared in a Saturday Night Live-related documentary called Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music. In March 2025, it was announced that Rodrigo would be one of the main performers for that year's Lollapalooza in Chicago. In June 2025, Rodrigo sang at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England. There she brought Robert Smith as a surprise guest and sang two songs by The Cure, "Just Like Heaven" and "Friday I'm in Love". Many fans and critics liked her singing at the festival. Rolling Stone said that she was the best singer of the festival. On July 30, 2025, Rodrigo ended her Guts World Tour in Manchester, England.

In August 2025, while singing at Lollapalooza in Chicago, Rodrigo brought Weezer as a special guest and they sang "Buddy Holly" and "Say It Ain't So" together. That same month, she said she was making a book about her time during the Guts World Tour called Guts World Tour Book. In September 2025, Rodrigo was in the documentary movie Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, which talked about female singers and musicians.
In November 2025, Rodrigo sang with Feist a cover of "We're Going to Be Friends" by The White Stripes at the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony. In December 2025, she released a live album called Live from Glastonbury (A BBC Recording). It was a recording of her singing at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival in June.
On April 2, 2026, Rodrigo announced her third studio album called You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. Its lead single, "Drop Dead", came out on April 17, 2026. The next day, Rodrigo appeared as a surprise guest when Addison Rae was singing at Coachella. On April 30, 2026, Rodrigo announced her third concert tour, The Unraveled Tour, in support of the album. The tour began on September 25, 2026, in Hartford, Connecticut, and will end on May 10, 2027, in London.

In May 2026, Rodrigo hosted and also sang on Saturday Night Live to support her new album. While on the show, she sang another new song from her album called "Begged". A second single from the album, "The Cure", came out on May 22, 2026. She said that the song is her favorite from the album and one of her favorites that she had made. On June 6, a week before her album came out, she sang a new single from the album called "What's Wrong with Me" at Primavera Sound, a music festival in Barcelona. She sang the song with English musician and The Cure member Robert Smith.
You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love was released on June 12, 2026. It received good reviews from fans and critics. The Associated Press said the album was Rodrigo's "best work yet". "Stupid Song" was released as the third single with the album, along with a music video. The album came out at number one on the US Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart. This was Rodrigo's largest first-week sales in both countries. She also became the first artist to have their first three lead singles and studio albums appear at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200. In the UK, she became the youngest international artist to earn more than 100,000 opening-week sales since Britney Spears in 2004.
In July 2026, she was added in the online game Fortnite as a non-player character to support You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. Her in-game appearance, based on her cheerleader look and the outfit she wears on the album cover, could be bought as outfits for the player character. That same month, Rodrigo worked with The Lego Group on a collection of five LEGO Editions sets. On July 31, Rodrigo made a surprise appearance when the Smashing Pumpkins were singing at Lollapalooza in Chicago. She sang "Thirty-Three" with frontman Billy Corgan. On August 24, Rodrigo released a single called "Serena Joy" to help raise money for her charity musical festival Daisy Chain Fields. Also in August, Rodrigo worked with Taco Bell to release a special Baja Blast flavor to support her album called "You Seem Pretty Pink for a Baja Blast".
In October 2026, Rodrigo released a remix of her song "Expectations" with Chappell Roan. The remix became the fourth single for You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. It had positive reviews from critics and was named best song of the week by Billboard, Mega, and Nylon.
Rodrigo says Taylor Swift and Lorde are her main musical inspirations. She called herself Swift's biggest fan "in the whole world". Rodrigo later gave musical credits to Swift on her song "1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back" and "Deja Vu". In 2022, she called The White Stripes band member Jack White her "hero of all heroes". She also said she was inspired by Alanis Morissette, Kacey Musgraves, Fiona Apple, St. Vincent, Cardi B, Gwen Stefani, Avril Lavigne, and Lana Del Rey. She also called Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill and Courtney Love of Hole her "heroes".
Guts was mainly inspired by her punk and alternative rock influences such as Babes in Toyland and Rage Against the Machine. For You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, she was inspired by post-punk bands like the Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Rodrigo has a three-octave soprano vocal range. Media sources and journalists have called her music rock, pop, pop rock, alternative pop, teen pop, pop-punk, indie pop, power pop, bedroom pop, and 90s alternative rock. Rodrigo said that she wants to be a songwriter and not "the biggest pop star that ever lived". Her music has also been seen as "emotional" power ballads with her music focused in ending relationships, mental health, and sadness.

From 2017 to 2018, Rodrigo and her Bizaardvark co-star Madison Hu worked together on Instagram. They asked their fans to spread kindness to fight against cyberbullying. Rodrigo and Hu worked together again with the non-profit organization My Friend's Place to help homeless youth find shelter, food, work, education, and healthcare. The event raised over $740,000 for local homeless youth. She also supported awareness for women studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Rodrigo calls herself a feminist. In February 2021, she sold merchandise called "Spicy Pisces T-shirts", on her website. All the money she raised went to organizations that support young girls' education and scholarships. In June 2021, she sold some of her clothes and items from her music videos, with the money going to charity.
On July 13, 2021, Rodrigo helped the Joe Biden administration to promote COVID-19 vaccinations among young people in the United States. She met with President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and doctor Anthony Fauci, to talk about her efforts. CNN said that Rodrigo would record videos about the importance of young people getting vaccinated.
After the United States Supreme Court removed the abortion protections of Roe v. Wade, Rodrigo sang "Fuck You", with British singer Lily Allen, at Glastonbury Festival. She sang the song for the associate justices who ruled to remove abortion access.

On November 20, 2022, Rodrigo worked with Billie Eilish, John Legend and Tom Holland to raise money to find a cure for epidermolysis bullosa and other rare diseases. In December 2022, Rodrigo, along with Chris Stapleton and Selena Gomez, donated some personal items to support musical education and talent programs in the United States. In January 2023, Rodrigo donated more personal items to the MusiCares Foundation Charity Relief Auction to help musicians who are not making enough money to live.
Rodrigo created a charity fund called Fund 4 Good to support reproductive healthcare of women, in October 2023. Some of the money raised during her Guts World Tour will go to the fund, and it will support the National Network of Abortion Funds. On March 12, 2024, condoms and Plan B pills were given out at Rodrigo's concert in St. Louis, where abortion is against the law. For the European part of the Tour in May 2024, Rodrigo gave money to the Women Against Violence Europe organization, to help stop women and their children from being victims of violence.
In July 2024, Rodrigo said she would support Vice President Harris's presidential campaign for the 2024 presidential election. In October 2024, Rodrigo donated all of the money made from her sold-out Philippines concert to Jhpiego, a women's health organization in the Philippines.
In July 2025, she spoke out against how Palestine was being treated during the Gaza war, saying "there is no child in Israel, Palestine or anywhere in the world who deserves to suffer through what we're seeing these children have to [go through]". She gave money to UNICEF and asked her fans to do the same. In September 2025, Rodrigo criticized the American Broadcasting Company for ending Jimmy Kimmel's show, calling the decision "censorship and abuse of power". In October 2025, Rodrigo donated all the money made from her American Express-only concert to her 'Fund 4 Good' charity, which supports female rights, reproductive freedom, and education.
In January 2026, it was announced that Rodrigo would take part in a charity auction hosted by Freedom for Sudan to raise money for humanitarian and medical help in Sudan. In March 2026, Rodrigo took part in an album for charity called Help(2). It was created by War Child to help children affected by war.
On June 22, 2026, Rodrigo announced an all-female music festival called Daisy Chain Fields. It happened on August 29, 2026 in Irvine, California. Money made from the festival would go to charities for women and girls and Planned Parenthood. Chappell Roan, Stevie Nicks, Doechii, Santigold, The Breeders, Bikini Kill, Die Spitz, Garbage, Sarah McLachlan and Katseye were some of the singers that sang at the event.
On August 28, 2026, it was announced that the concert had already raised $10 million. During the festival, Melinda French Gates said that her organization Pivotal Ventures would double the money already raised, bringing the total to $20 million.
Rodrigo was in a relationship with English actor Louis Partridge from 2023 until 2025. Before, she was said to have dated her High School Musical: The Musical: The Series co-star Joshua Bassett from 2019 to 2020. Some songs of her Sour album were also said to be inspired from her relationship with Bassett.
Rodrigo lives in an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York City. She also has a home in Los Angeles.

Rodrigo has won many awards during her career, including three Grammy Awards, seven Billboard Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, four iHeartRadio Music Awards, and a Juno Award. She was also nominated for two People's Choice Awards, an American Music Award, and a Brit Award.
Rodrigo was on the 2021 cover of Time magazine's 100 Next list. She was named Time's Entertainer of the Year for 2021. Billboard also called her their Woman of the Year in 2022. The magazine added her on its yearly 21 Under 21 list in 2021 and 2022. Rodrigo was also named on lists such as the Bloomberg 50 and Forbes 30 Under 30 in the music category. She was also given the "Songwriter of the Year" award by Variety in 2021.
In August 2024, Billboard had Rodrigo on a list of honorable mentions of its "25 Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century" article. They said she was "a new-school rock star as much as a pop phenomena". In October 2024, Rolling Stone called her "Gen Z's [greatest] rock star". American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) named her as the "Songwriter of the Year" at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards in 2022 and 2024.
In March 2025, Billboard put her at number 21 on the "Top 100 Women Artists of the 21st Century" list.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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| 2015 | An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success | Grace Thomas | Direct-to-video movie | |
| 2021 | Sour Prom | Herself | Concert movie | |
| 2022 | Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U | Documentary movie | ||
| 2024 | Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour | Concert movie | ||
| 2025 | Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery | Documentary movie |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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| 2016–2019 | Bizaardvark | Paige Olvera | Main role | |
| 2017 | New Girl | Terrinea | Episode: "Young Adult" | |
| 2019–2022 | High School Musical: The Musical: The Series | Nini Salazar-Roberts | Main role (seasons 1–2); recurring (season 3) | |
| 2019 | High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Special | Herself / Nini Salazar-Roberts | Documentary special | |
| 2020 | The Disney Family Singalong | Herself | Television special | |
| High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special | Herself / Nini Salazar-Roberts | Holiday special | ||
| 2021–2026 | Saturday Night Live | Herself | Musical guest; 3 episodes | |
| 2025 | Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Documentary special |
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| 2026 | Fortnite | Herself | Non-player character and player skin |
Rodrigo identifies as part Filipina. She was born and raised in California to a Filipino father and a German-Irish mother.
Last year's "An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success," based on the 2015 Girl of the Year, Grace Thomas, starred Olivia Rodrigo.
Rodrigo admitted she was a huge fan of the "Sk8er Boy" singer, 37.
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