China Anne McClain

China Anne McClain

Born: August 25, 1998
in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
China Anne McClain (born August 25, 1998) is an American actress and singer. McClain's career began when she was seven years old, portraying Alexis in the film The Gospel (2005), and then China James in Daddy's Little Girls (2007). She then received recognition for starring as Jazmine Payne in the television series Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2007–2012; 2020–present) and as Charlotte McKenzie in the film Grown Ups (2010); and became internationally known for starring as Chyna Parks in the Disney Channel television series A.N.T. Farm (2011–2014), and as Uma in the Disney Channel films Descendants 2 (2017) and Descendants 3 (2019). In 2018, McClain began starring in The CW superhero series Black Lightning (2018–2021) as Jennifer Pierce / Lightning. She also reprised her character Jazmine Payne on OWN's revival of The Paynes (2018).

McClain began her musical career in 2005 as a member of the sister girl group the 3mcclaingirls with her sisters Sierra and Lauryn. Her first professional single was "Your Biggest Fan" with Nick Jonas on the soundtrack album Jonas L.A. (2010). In 2011, McClain signed with Hollywood Records both as a solo artist and with her sister girl group, known as the McClain Sisters. Her debut single as a solo artist was "Dynamite" which peaked at no. 2 on the US Kid Digital Songs, and her second single, "Calling All the Monsters", peaked at no. 1 on the same chart and earned 25,000 downloads within its first week of release. The A.N.T. Farm soundtrack album spent five weeks on the Billboard Kids chart in 2011 and sold 14,000 copies in its first week of release. Billboard also named her the sixth best-selling artist for digital kids' songs in 2012. In 2017, her single "What's My Name" from Descendants 2 peaked on several Billboard charts, and was certified gold, with 500,000 units sold, on November 10, 2017. In June 2020 her sister girl group changed their name to Thriii.

Movies for China Anne McClain...

Descendants: The Rise of Red
Title: Descendants: The Rise of Red
Character: Uma
Released: July 12, 2024
Type: Movie
The daughters of the Queen of Hearts and Cinderella travel back in time to prevent a coup in Auradon.
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Descendants: The Royal Wedding
Title: Descendants: The Royal Wedding
Character: Uma (voice)
Released: August 13, 2021
Type: Movie
Happily-ever-after continues for Auradon's power couple as they prepare to say "I do" at an epic celebration with their friends and family, but Hades threatens to ruin it all.
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Hubie Halloween
Title: Hubie Halloween
Character: Miss Taylor
Released: October 7, 2020
Type: Movie
Hubie Dubois, despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts (and its legendary Halloween celebration), is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike. But this year, something really is going bump in the night, and it’s up to Hubie to save Halloween.
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Wicked Woods: A Descendants Halloween Story
Title: Wicked Woods: A Descendants Halloween Story
Character: Uma (voice)
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
On Halloween night, Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay wander into some wicked woods and have a frightful time.
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Descendants 3
Title: Descendants 3
Character: Uma
Released: August 2, 2019
Type: Movie
The teenagers of Disney's most infamous villains return to the Isle of the Lost to recruit a new batch of villainous offspring to join them at Auradon Prep.
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Blood Brother
Title: Blood Brother
Character: Darcy
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Blood Brother takes place on he mean streets of a city in decay, where a recently released convict begins to take a murderous revenge against his childhood friends, whom he believes let him take the fall for a crime they collectively committed. As the bodies start piling up, one of the friends, now a cop, will stop at nothing to put and end to the murderous rampage and to right the many wrongs of their tragically violent past.
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Under the Sea: A Descendants Story
Title: Under the Sea: A Descendants Story
Character: Uma
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Mal emerges from the shadows of a mystical forest onto a dark coastline where she crosses paths with Dizzy.
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Title: Black Lightning
Character: Jennifer Pierce / Lightning
Released: January 16, 2018
Type: TV
Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal of a charter high school that also serves as a safe haven for young people in a New Orleans neighborhood overrun by gang violence, he is a hero to his community.
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Ten: Murder Island
Title: Ten: Murder Island
Character: Meg
Released: September 16, 2017
Type: Movie
A group of kids travel to an abandoned island for a party only to discover that they are being stalked and hunted down by a dangerous predator.
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Descendants 2
Title: Descendants 2
Character: Uma
Released: July 21, 2017
Type: Movie
When the pressure to be royal becomes too much for Mal, she returns to the Isle of the Lost where her archenemy Uma, Ursula's daughter, has taken her spot as self-proclaimed queen.
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Disney Parks Presents: A Descendants Magical Holiday Celebration
Title: Disney Parks Presents: A Descendants Magical Holiday Celebration
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Aside from taking a look inside Disney Parks during the holiday season, the show features musical performances from both Disney Channel stars and famous faces from “Descendants 2!” Disney Channel stars Dove Cameron, Cameron Boyce, Sofia Carson and Booboo Stewart will perform “Jolly to the Core,” while star China Anne McClain will sing “This Christmas.” Additional musical performances include: “Silent Night,” performed by Hollywood Records and Republic Records recording artist Sofia Carson. Kelly Clarkson performing a song from her 2013 holiday album “Wrapped in Red.” Forever In Your Mind performing “Celebrate.” Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks perform a holiday duet from their new album, “Christmas Together"
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Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
Title: Bilal: A New Breed of Hero
Character: Ghufaira (Teen) (voice)
Released: September 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage to raise his voice and make a change. Inspired by true events, this is a story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history.
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Title: Descendants: Wicked World
Character: Freddie (voice)
Released: September 18, 2015
Type: TV
After Ben's coronation in Descendants, the villain kids Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay settle in at being good while their villainous parents are still roaming the Isle of the Lost. The story goes deeper at the arrival of new villain kids, Freddie (Dr. Facilier's daughter), CJ (Captain Hook's daughter) and Zevon (Yzma's son).
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How to Build a Better Boy
Title: How to Build a Better Boy
Character: Gabby Harrison
Released: November 18, 2014
Type: Movie
After inadvertently inputting the qualities of the ideal boyfriend into a high-tech government computer, two social outcasts named Mae and Gabby must contend with Albert, a cybernetic sweetheart with only objective: to treat Mae to the perfect highschool romance.
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Grown Ups 2
Title: Grown Ups 2
Character: Charlotte Mackenzie
Released: July 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises—the last day of school.
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Title: Radio Disney Music Awards
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: April 27, 2013
Type: TV
The Radio Disney Music Awards were an annual awards show operated and governed by Radio Disney, an American radio network. Beginning in 2001, the show was originally broadcast only on Radio Disney, but later began being televised on Disney Channel from 2013 onwards
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Title: Doc McStuffins
Character: Tisha McStuffins (voice)
Released: March 23, 2012
Type: TV
A young African-American girl aspires to be a doctor like her mom.
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Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade
Title: Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade
Released: December 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Award-winning singer Cee Lo Green is one of several stars set to perform in this year’s “Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade” on ABC.
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Title: PrankStars
Character: Self
Released: July 15, 2011
Type: TV
PrankStars was a reality series that airs monthly and employs the use of a hidden camera. The series premiered on Disney Channel on July 15, 2011, and is hosted by Pair of Kings and Hannah Montana star, Mitchel Musso. The television program portrays scenarios in which children and teenagers meet their favorite stars in "unpredictable and humorous" settings that have been engineered by their friends and family. The show is Disney Channel's first reality series since the Totally in Tune show. In Canada, Family Channel aired two episodes of PrankStars on September 30, 2011, and a total of four episodes were originally supposed to broadcast before the series was withdrawn. The fourth episode aired a day before Musso's mid-October 2011 arrest on a charge of driving while intoxicated, and the remaining two episodes premiered solely in the United Kingdom.
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Title: Disney's Friends for Change Games
Character: Herself
Released: June 24, 2011
Type: TV
The Disney's Friends for Change Games are Olympic-based televised games aired on the Disney Channel and part of the station's Friends for Change initiative. It replaces the Disney Channel Games and premiered on June 24, 2011 on Disney Channel. The games did not continue into 2012 and 2013 for unknown reasons.
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Title: So Random!
Character: Herself
Released: June 5, 2011
Type: TV
"So Random" has the biggest cast, the biggest stars, and the biggest laughs on Disney Channel! Nothing is off limits in this all new musical sketch comedy. Each episode features original skits, songs and parodies with celebrity guest stars like Tony Hawk, Mitchel Musso and Selena Gomez!
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Title: A.N.T. Farm
Character: Chyna Parks
Released: May 6, 2011
Type: TV
Chyna Parks, an 11 year old musical prodigy, gets into a gifted program called Advanced Natural Talents at the local high school. Along with her fellow elementary school-aged 'ANTs', she must navigate the halls of a new school of older kids who are not particularly fond of grade-skipping newbies.
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Title: R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour
Character: Sam
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: TV
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian/American original anthology horror-fantasy series, with episodes each half an hour long. The series is based on The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It Movie, and the books The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour anthology by R. L. Stine.
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Grown Ups
Title: Grown Ups
Character: Charlotte McKenzie
Released: June 24, 2010
Type: Movie
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
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Hurricane Season
Title: Hurricane Season
Character: Alana Collins
Released: December 8, 2009
Type: Movie
Based on true events amid the wreckage and chaos dealt by Hurricane Katrina; one basketball coach in Marrero, Louisiana just will not give up. Coach Al Collins, gathers other players from hard-hit schools and builds a team actually worthy enough to go to the state playoffs.
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Title: JONAS L.A.
Character: Kiara
Released: May 2, 2009
Type: TV
The show follows the Jonas Brothers through fun and unusual situations as they try to live ordinary lives.
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A Dennis the Menace Christmas
Title: A Dennis the Menace Christmas
Character: Margaret
Released: November 13, 2007
Type: Movie
A Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neighborhood bully, he does his best to try and give Mr. Wilson the Christmas Spirit. Dennis causes his usual damage and Mr. Wilson ends up breaking Dennis' spirit. An Angel of Christmas Past Present and Future steps in to help save Christmas for the Mitchells, the Wilsons, and everyone else.
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Title: Wizards of Waverly Place
Character: Tina
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: TV
Alex, Justin and Max Russo are not your ordinary kids - they're wizards in training! While their parents run the Waverly Sub Station, the siblings struggle to balance their ordinary lives while learning to master their extraordinary powers.
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Title: House of Payne
Character: Jazmine Payne
Released: June 6, 2007
Type: TV
The show revolved around a multi-generational family living under one roof in Atlanta led by patriarch Curtis Payne and his wife Ella.
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Daddy's Little Girls
Title: Daddy's Little Girls
Character: China James
Released: February 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia, a beautiful, Ivy League-educated attorney. Monty and Julia couldn't be less alike, but a flame is ignited... touching off a firestorm of love and conflict.
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Title: Hannah Montana
Character: Isabel
Released: March 24, 2006
Type: TV
At home and school, she's Miley Stewart, a typical teenager, but when the lights go down and the curtain goes up, she emerges as the glamorous and talented Hannah Montana. Having the "Best of Both Worlds" is a complicated proposition, and keeping her identity under wraps leads Miley and her friends into some hilarious capers as she tries to balance her normal life with her rock star persona.
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Title: Bones
Character: Kathryn Walling
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Title: Project Runway
Character: Self - Guest Judge
Released: December 1, 2004
Type: TV
Aspiring fashion designers compete for a chance to break into the industry. Each week, a designer is eliminated from the competition after exhibiting their work in front of a judges' panel.
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Title: NCIS
Character: Kayla Vance
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.