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Laura Marano’s Acting Career Started by Accident

30 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube clip, Laura Marano recounts how her acting career began unintentionally. When she was six, her younger sister Vanessa expressed a strong desire to become a professional actress and repeatedly urged their mother to find an agent. Their mother, initially skeptical, searched for an agent and found one who rarely signed child clients. Vanessa met the agent, who decided to represent her, and then unexpectedly offered representation to Laura as well. The story highlights the sister’s persistence, the mother’s reluctant involvement, and the surprise of both sisters securing an agent, marking the accidental start of Laura’s acting journey.

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At 6, my sister asked my mom, you know, she was like, I wanna do this professionally. Like, I wanna be an actress. And my mom was like, no, you're 6 years old. This is adorable, but like, no, not gonna happen. And then my sister started asking my mom every single day for 2 years. And so my mom, in a slightly sociopathic way, and I say this with love, decided to look up agents and found an agent that turned down children 95% of the time. Like most of the time. So my So my sister goes in, my mom doesn't even work on it with her. She's like, you'll be fine, kid. Vanessa goes in, comes out, the agent asks to see my mom and says to my mom, we wanna take Vanessa. And my mom just stands there aghast and is thinking, wait, what? And then I'm there and I say, but I don't have an agent. And they're like, oh honey, we'll take you too. And my mom was like, what? What do you mean?