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.
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.
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:
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 Hour. Rowan has two younger siblings, Carmen and Shane.
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