Chelsea Tavares
Chelsea Tavares is an actor, born 1991.
Tavares has been on television since she was a child, and the thread running through the whole career is that she sings. Born in 1991, she came up through Nickelodeon, first as Cranberry on Unfabulous and then as Autumn Williams on Just Jordan, which is the standard American kids-network apprenticeship: a great deal of camera time and very little room to do anything difficult with it.
The teen and young-adult work followed the usual route. She was Jordan Randall on the gymnastics drama Make It or Break It, Andrea on the thriller Ringer, and Cara in the Fright Night remake.
The part that finally uses her properly is Patience Robinson on All American, a musician character inside a show about a football team, which means the writers can hand her songs rather than only handing her scenes. It is also the rare network role that gives a young Black woman a career and an arc of her own rather than a place in somebody else's subplot.
Her other significant credit is not screen acting at all: she supplied the voice and motion capture for Nora Harris in the video game The Last of Us Part II, a small part in one of the most argued-about games ever made.
Movies (1)
TV (4)
Where to start with Chelsea Tavares
All American is the one, and it is not close. Patience is the best-written part she has had, the songs are actually hers, and the show gives her a storyline that develops across seasons instead of resetting each week. Start at the beginning of the series rather than hunting for her episodes.
Make It or Break It is the next most substantial, a teen sports drama rather better than it needed to be, and Ringer is a curio: a glossy, absurd thriller that lasted one season and is enjoyable if you take it in the spirit it deserves.
Unfabulous shows you how young she started, and Fright Night is a small part in a horror remake that is much better than horror remakes tend to be. Her game work on The Last of Us Part II is not among the credits listed here.