She began taking acting and singing classes at age six and started acting in theater productions in elementary school. Rodrigo started taking vocal lessons in kindergarten and learned to play piano soon after.

She has stated that her paternal great-grandfather moved from the Philippines to the United States as a teenager and her family follows Filipino traditions and cuisine. Rodrigo is Filipino American by ethnicity her father is Filipino while her mother has German and Irish ancestry. She lived and grew up in neighboring Temecula. Olivia Isabel Rodrigo was born on February 20, 2003, at Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, California, to school teacher Jennifer and family therapist Chris Rodrigo.

Life and career 2003–2019: Early life and acting Time named her the 2021 Entertainer of the Year and Billboard named her Woman of the Year in 2022. In addition to other recognitions, she has won an American Music Award, seven Billboard Music Awards and four MTV Video Music Awards. Rodrigo has achieved two Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, one Billboard 200 number-one album, and five multi-Platinum certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). A Disney+ documentary, Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U, chronicling her creative process with Sour, followed in 2022.

She followed it up with singles ' Deja Vu' and ' Good 4 U', and released her debut solo studio album, Sour (2021), which was met with critical and commercial success, winning various accolades including three Grammy Awards. After signing with Geffen and Interscope Records in 2020, Rodrigo released her debut single ' Drivers License', which broke various records and became one of the best-selling songs of 2021, propelling her to mainstream fame. She gained recognition in the late 2010s with her lead roles on the Disney television programs Bizaardvark and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

Olivia Isabel Rodrigo (born February 20, 2003) is an American singer-songwriter and actress.

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