ABOUT CHELSEA HOBBS
Chelsea Raelle Hobbs (born February 18, 1985 in Vancouver, Canada) is a Canadian actress, singer and performer who is best known for playing Gerda in the 2002 film Snow Queen and Emily Kmetko in Make It or Break It.
Personal life
Was born in 1985, despite imdb.com’s listings which say 1984.
Chelsea has been singing, dancing and acting almost as soon as she could walk, performing for anyone who would grant her audience.
Chelsea’s formal training began at the age of 3, when she started dancing hours a day, 6 days a week. Her parents, after divorcing when Chelsea was only 7, enrolled her in acting classes so that she would have another creative outlet. It took them no time at all to realize that Chelsea’s talents were too big for recitals and children’s plays. Chelsea’s educational career was quickly fast-tracked from an advanced secondary school arts curriculum, to being enrolled in an intensive acting program with students 5 years her senior and over, to graduating from home-school on-set at the age of 16. Chelsea then moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles alone, at age 16 and was frequently up for roles alongside young Hollywood’s top contenders. She has a young daughter with her husband, photographer Teren Oddo, who she has been with since early 2004.
[edit] Career
Over the course of her youth, Chelsea appeared in over 40 commercials and subsequently booked a role over hundreds of other girls in the kids’ improvisational TV series, No Adults Aloud. Chelsea’s lead role as “Gerda” in Hallmark’s Snow Queen and the Leo Award nomination she received for it, brought her attention from the States and before she knew it, she was living in Los Angeles with a TV pilot (Save the Last Dance) under her belt and a budding film career ahead of her. Over her several years of acting in L.A., Chelsea had a re-occurring role on the hit show The L Word and was fortunate enough to play a part in Lords of Dogtown with Heath Ledger as well as Beach Girls, a made for Lifetime movie with Rob Lowe. Her role in Beach Girls was such a hit with the network, Chelsea was brought back to star in more Lifetime films as the good girl gone bad in The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker and Confessions of a Go-Go Girl, which also led to her appearing on CBS’s Cold Case as a murderous pin-up girl. In 2009, Chelsea landed the role of top gymnast, Emily Kmetko in ABC Family’s newest series, Make It or Break It.
[edit] Filmography
* Make It or Break It (2009-, TV series) – Emily Kmetko
* Cold Case (2008, TV series) – Betty Sue Baker
* Confessions of a Go-Go Girl (2008, TV movie) – Jane McCoy
* The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker (2007, TV movie) – Shanna
* The L Word (2007, TV series) – Brooke
* Beach Girls (2005, mini-series) – Nell Kilvert
* Lords of Dogtown (2005) – Caroline
* The Unknown (2005) – Jenny Ackers
* More Sex & the Single Mom (2004) – Sara Gradwell
* Save The Last Dance (2002, TV series) – Sarah Johnson
* Snow Queen (2002) – Gerda
* Pasadena (2001, TV series) – Meredith Weller
* The Sausage Factory (2001, TV series) – Madison
* Seven Days (2001, TV series) – Amy
* Mysterious Ways (2001, TV series) – 14 year old Girl
* Miracle on the 17th Green (1999, TV movie) – Megan McKinley
* Christina’s House (1999) – Suzy Cooper
* Perfect Body (1997, TV movie) – New Gymnast
* Sweet Dreams (1996, TV movie) – Young Laura
* Secret’s Out (1995, TV Series) – Vanna
* No Adults Aloud (1994, TV Series) – Chelsea Wright
