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Rowan Blanchard Celebrates Her 19th Birthday: All You Need To Know About The American Actress

Rowan Blanchard was included on a list of Time's list of Most Influential Teens. Today, October 14, 2020, the actress turns 19 years old.

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Rowan Blanchard

Rowan Blanchard is an American actress, best known for her role as Riley Matthews on the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World (2014–2017), as Jackie Geary on the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs (2017–2018), and Alexandra Cavill in the TNT series Snowpiercer (2020–present). In the year 2015, she was also included on a list of Time's list of Most Influential Teens. Today, October 14, 2020, the actress turns 19. She calls herself a feminist, human rights activist and LGBTQ+ icon.

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Rowan Blanchard's Career

In 2010, Rowan began acting, she was five. She made her debut in The Back-up Plan as Mona's daughter. Later, she played the role of the main character, Caitlin, in the Disney Junior Original Series Dance-a-Lot. In 2011, she was cast as Rebecca Wilson in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, and as Raquel Pacheco in Little in Common.

In late January 2013, Blanchard was cast as Riley Matthews in the Disney Channel series Girl Meets World. She also sang the title song of Girl Meets World, along with co-star Sabrina Carpenter. Girl Meets World is a continuing series of Boy Meets World. She plays the role of the daughter of Cory and Topanga from Boy Meets World. Henceforth, she became an active member of the Disney Channel Circle of Stars. In early January 2015, Blanchard played the role of Cleo in the Disney Channel Original Movie Invisible Sister.

In September 2017, she also announced that she would be releasing a book, titled "Still Here". Later, it was published in February 2018.

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Rowan Blanchard As A Feminist Human Rights Activist

Rowan Blanchard has spoken at the UN Women and US National Committee's annual conference as part of #TeamHeForShe, a feminist campaign.

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Working With Female Director

Rowan is very passionate about directing, but for now, her priority is working with a female director as an actress. During  an interview, she said, “There’s something different about when a female directs versus a male. The level of maturity, mutual respect, and energy that you get from a female director is so different. I’ve worked with male directors who aren’t good, and no one says anything about it, but then we had one female director who was kind of all over the place and everyone complained. It’s so gendered. I feel safer when working with a female director because I know it’s from a female gaze.”

Feminism 

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In an interview, she explained her first encounter with the word feminism. She said, “I started to have conversations with women around me and I had always heard the word feminism with a negative connotation. I remember I saw something about equal pay in Hollywood and the writer used the word feminism in the article. And at first I was scared, and thought it was a horrible word. Around the same time Emma Watson had her speech at the United Nations, and that gave me some clarity.”

Now she defines feminism as “Undoing patriarchal structures against marginalised people — structures that fight against people of colour, that fight against women, that fight against disabled people, that fight against LGBTQ.”

LGBTQ +

Blanchard said, she identifies as queer, "not because she necessarily is gay or bisexual, but because she isn’t necessarily not."  She posted on instagram:

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I wasn’t sure if I was going to post anything this month that could be interpreted as capitalist pride or worse, as activism because as you can probably tell from the minimal posts on this page: I have mixed feelings about my previous time performing social justice online and the fact it allowed me and many to address themselves as activists when maybe that word has lost its meaning, and isn’t something I choose to identify as now or am willing to readopt. I am also hesitant because I’m aware of the inferred empowerment that is encapsulated in the word pride, which isn’t something many queers can access, or even something we should necessarily want in the same way under the terms of the white supremacist, queer and transphobic cop state and society we live in daily. Pride on this app feels dizzying and covered in campaigns and rainbow objects we can buy, pride in 2019 feels like it doesn’t really belong to queers anymore but to the state, so before I go too deep down this rabbit hole: I wanted to share the opening paragraph from a book @hi_its_bobbi recommended to me when I was first coming to terms with the layers of my own identity: Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz. With the majority of visible queerness/ pride this month being of the kind that some straight cis corporation is profiting from I wanted to share something that suggests queerness is the unseen, the invisible, the utopian, the future and that there is an uncolonized world of it that we haven’t touched yet, that belongs not to cops or corporations or tee shirts or to America but to us. I’m grateful for every way queerness has shaped my lens on the world, and for every trans, queer, and non binary person who can’t interact with visibility or outness in the same way that is reflected to us on this app. We see you 👀 🖤 If you are buying something rainbow themed this year, instead give ur money directly to the go fund mes or Venmos belonging to trans women of color and non binary pocs, whose historical fight is responsible for the state/cop rebellion called pride in the first place. Love u 😘

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Rowan Blanchard's Personal Life

Rowan Blanchard was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are Elizabeth and Mark Blanchard-Boulbol, both are yoga instructors. It is known that she was named after a character in Anne Rice's The Witching HourRowan has two younger siblings, Carmen and Shane.

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Khushi Gupta is an intern with SheThePeople.TV

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