Charlotte Gray Arnold was born on July 27, 1989 in Toronto, Ontario. Arnold formerly portrayed mean girl turned nice, Holly J. Sinclair, from Season 7 to Season 11.
Her other credits include roles in several TV movies such as Custody of the Heart, Uninvited, Giant Mine, and One Kill. She also had a role in the feature film, The Safety of Objects. Before Degrassi, Charlotte played the title character in Family Channel TV series Naturally Sadie. Charlotte was a 2001 nominee for Best Performance in a TV Movie at The Young Artist Awards in Los Angeles. Alongside her co-star Raymond Ablack, she was enrolled in Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan (formally known as Ryerson) University in Downtown Toronto.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1996 | Giant Mine | Kate O'Neil | TV movie |
1997 | Earth: Final Conflict | Little Girl | Episode: "Decision" |
1999 | Real Kids, Real Adventures | Holli | Episode: "Amy to the Rescue: The Amy Toole Story" |
2000 | Custody of the Heart | Kiki Raphael | TV movie |
2000 | Harlan County War | Lucinda Kincaid | TV movie |
2000 | One Kill | Callie O'Malley | TV movie |
2000 | Range of Motion | Sarah Berman | TV movie |
2001 | Jewel | Annie Hillburn (age 7-11) | TV movie |
2001 | Committed | Zelda Larsen (voice) | TV series |
2001 | The Safety of Objects | Sally Christianson | |
2002 | Time of the Wolf | Paige McGuire | |
2004 | Zixx Level One | Sarah Mills | Episode: "Four's a Crowd" Episode: "Revenge Is Sweet" |
2005ā2007 | Naturally, Sadie | Sadie Hawthorne | 63 episodes; Lead Role |
2007 | They Come Back | Megan Belleflower | TV movie |
2007ā2012 | Degrassi: The Next Generation | Holly J. Sinclair | (Season 7-11; Series Regular)(Guest star 11.44-11.45) |
2009 | Degrassi Goes Hollywood | Holly J. Sinclair | TV movie |
2010 | Degrassi Takes Manhattan | Holly J. Sinclair | TV movie |
2011 | Her Eyes | Charlotte | Short film; (completed) |
2015 | Beauty and the Beast | Marissa Zane | Episode: "The Beast of Wall Street" |
2016 | Degrassi: Next Class | Holy J. Sinclair | Episode: "#ThrowbackThursday" |
Trivia
- Charlotte is a Leo.
- Charlotte also auditioned for both Emma and Liberty in Season 1, a character who never got onto the show in Season 4, and both Anya and Holly J. in Season 7.
- She went to the same high school as Munro Chambers, who played Eli Goldsworthy.
- Her favorite episode is The Curse of Degrassi.
- She has the same last name as Craig Arnold who played Luke Baker, but they are unrelated.
- She has two brothers.
- She's a natural redhead with blue eyes.
- She's studied ballet most of her life.
- She speaks fluent English and French and is now studying Latin and Spanish.
- In the 2015 interview Straight Talk with Adamo Ruggiero, she said that she would like to see Amy Schumer play Heather Sinclair.
- She also said she's read through Holly J.'s page in order to prep for the It Goes There interview..ļæ¼
- Her favorite Degrassi characters are Clare Edwards, Johnny DiMarco, Bruce and J.T. Yorke.
- She shares a birthday with Nathaniel Stephenson who portrayed Griffin Pierce-Taylor, but is three years younger.
- On April 11, 2021 she announced she is expecting her first child. Annie Clark went to her baby shower. Charlotte gave birth to her daughter, named Jane, on August 6, 2021.