Bridgit Mendler Trivia | 55 facts about the former Disney star

Bridgit Mendler is an American actress, singer-songwriter, executive, and businesswoman. She became famous throught Disney Channel.

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about her life and career.

1. Her full name is Bridgit Claire Mendler
2. She was born December 18, 1992
3. Mendler is an American actress, singer-songwriter, executive, and businesswoman
4. She first became known as a child actress
5. With her early credits including the films Alice Upside Down (2007), The Clique (2008) and Labor Pains (2009)
6. She signed with Disney Channel in 2009
7. She played Juliet van Heusen on Wizards of Waverly Place (2009–2012), Olivia White in the Disney Channel film Lemonade Mouth (2011), and Teddy Duncan on the Disney series Good Luck Charlie (2010–2014)
8. She went on to portray Candace in the NBC sitcom Undateable (2015–2016), Ashley Willerman in the ABC/CMT musical television series Nashville (2017), and Emmy Quinn in the Netflix comedy series Merry Happy Whatever (2019)
9. Mendler began her music career in the 2010s
10. Making her singing debut contributing to the soundtrack of Lemonade Mouth in 2011
11. She signed with Hollywood Records in 2011
12. She released debut studio album Hello My Name Is… (2012)
13. The album peaked at number 30 on the Billboard 200
14. It spawned the hit single “Ready or Not”
15. She then embarked on two concert tours: Bridgit Mendler: Live in Concert (2013) and Summer Tour (2013–2014)
16. She independently released the extended play (EP) Nemesis (2016) under the Black Box record label
17. Mendler embarked on the Nemesis Tour
18. From 2010 to 2012, she served as ambassador to nonprofit First Book, which encourages reading
19. And Give with Target, to raise funds to reform schools in the United States
20. From the late 2010s, Mendler began focusing on her education
21. From 2017 to 2023, she was a student and researcher with the MIT Media Lab
22. She earned her PhD from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communications and Social Machines group
23. Mendler earned her JD from Harvard Law School in 2024
24. In 2024, Mendler became the CEO and co-founder of the satellite data startup Northwood Space
25. Mendler was born in Washington, D.C.
26. She is the daughter of Sandra (née Ford) Mendler and Charles Mendler, and has a younger brother named Nicholas
27. She moved with her family to Mill Valley, California, at the age of eight
28. It was there where she first expressed interest in acting and began working in plays
29. When she was eight years old, Mendler began taking part in local roles in both dramatic and musical theatre
30. She became the youngest performer in the San Francisco Fringe Festival
31. When she was 11 years old, she hired an agent to help her get acting jobs
32. Mendler is the niece of psychologist Christine Blasey Ford
33. On March 27, 2012, Shane Harper said in an interview with Officially the Hottest that he was dating Mendler
34. Harper told the interviewer that they became friends early in Good Luck Charlie and began dating in May 2011
35. In an interview with Cambio in September 2012, Mendler stated that it took two years between her meeting Harper and beginning to date him
36. To Classicalite, Mendler talked about dating Harper, and said it took time for them to begin something, because she needed time to think.
37. In November 2015, Mendler revealed that she had ended her relationship with Harper
38. In October 2019, Mendler announced via Instagram that she had married Griffin Cleverly
39. In February 2024, Mendler announced via X that she had become the mother of a 4-year-old boy
40. Whom she had begun fostering in 2021 and later adopted around Christmas 2022
41. Mendler has a degree in anthropology from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California.[190] Two members of her band also studied at USC
42. In 2013, she chose anthropology[193] and studied Medieval Visual Culture, and medical anthropology
43. Her mother was pursuing a doctorate in public policy at USC at the time
44. In 2016, she graduated with her degree in anthropology
45. In May 2017, Mendler was announced as one of the 2017 MIT Media Lab’s Director’s Fellows
46. In May 2018, she announced on Twitter that she started a graduate program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a focus on improving social media
47. In January 2019, Mendler indicated that she was enrolled in a class at Harvard Law School
48. In 2020, she completed her graduate degree at MIT and began working on her Ph.D with MIT’s Center for Constructive Communications and Social Machines group.
49. As of 2022, she is concurrently enrolled at Harvard Law School and at MIT
50. Mendler co-founded Northwood Space, a satellite data startup
51. Along with her husband in 2023
52. She serves as CEO
53. The venture-backed company is based in El Segundo, California
54. It intends to mass produce satellite ground stations
55. They launched with $6.3 million in funding from investors including the Founders Fund