The D'Ambrosio Twins

Bianca D'Ambrosio and Chiara D'Ambrosio (born April 28, 2005), also known collectively as the D'Ambrosio Twins, are American child actresses and musicians. The twins made their acting debut playing Summer Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. At the age of 6, Bianca and Chiara began starring together and separately in TV, films, print, music, and video projects.

Childhood and acting career

The twins were born in Santa Monica, California. In 2008 at the age of 3, the twins were cast in the role of Summer Newman on the soap opera, The Young and the Restless on CBS. In order to comply with child labor laws that set strict limits on how long a child actor may work, the sisters took turns playing the role.

They appeared in an episode of Parks and Recreation playing Lennon Parham's daughter in 2009.

The following year, they played the Diskin Twins on The Closer. Also in 2010, they appeared in the Bon Jovi music video "What Do You Got?" They played the daughters of Scottie Thompson and Wes Bentley. Followed by playing a younger version of Crystal Bowersox in her music video, "Farmers Daughter."

Bianca appeared in the season premiere of Criminal Minds^[1] as Kelly Tucker (2012). They both worked on a short film Voodoo the Right Thing alongside Abby Miller. The film won 2nd place at the Producer Guild of America Weekend Shorts Competition. Both Bianca and Chiara were nominated for their roles in this short film for a 34th Young Artist Awards.

In early 2013, they starred next to Jim Jefferies in the FX show Legit,^[2][3] followed by Bianca co starring on the Anthony Jeselnik show, Jeselnik Offensive^[4] on Comedy Central. Their first Nickelodeon show was See Dad Run,^[5] in which they played the twins of Ted McGinnely and his wife Gigi Rice and brother Jack Griffo. Their first feature film was Feeding Mr. Baldwin^[6] with Christopher B. Duncan. Bianca co-starred in a pilot called Marked. She went on to get nominated for this role for the 35th Young Artist Awards.

In 2014, they booked a guest star/recurring role in the Disney XD pilot, The Savages, working with producer Jim O'Doherty. Also in 2014, they worked together on the short film Reflections^[7][8] alongside Ray Wise. They also worked with David Henrie on the short film The Catch. This was followed by their second film, Lone, with Chelsea Wolfe and director Mark Pellington.

Their next role was on Freak Out on FreeForm Channel in 2015. Bianca was nominated for a Young Entertainers Award for her role. Shortly after, Bianca did an episode of Game Shakers on Nickelodeon. They both worked on a web series The Kids Table, directed by Stephen Kramer Glickman, in which Chiara was nominated for a Young Entertainers Award for her role. The girls are currently working on their A Day in the Life web series. They are slated for supporting roles in an upcoming movie, Repression 2017. Bianca was also recently crowned Miss City of Angeles Pre Teen,^[9] and Chiara was recently crowned Jr. Miss West Coast 2016.^[10] They were both voted on the Board of Directors for the Boo2Bullying organization,^[11] as they were Ambassadors for Boo2Bullying for years.^[12] They also worked with producer Dick Wagner on a project for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital called "Rockers for St. Jude".

Filmography

Music career

The twins started playing piano at the age of four. They expressed an interest in a music career and an early age, and have been playing the guitar and drums since the age of six.

The first song they recorded was an anti bullying song "Let Your Light Shine".^[13][14] This song was produced by John Ryan and written by Nick Pellegrino. The song and video were released on September 18, 2012. The "Let Your Light Shine" music video went on to win several film festivals. The girls were honored to receive a Gracie Award^[15][16] in 2013 for Outstanding Video. They also won Best Music Video at New Media Film Festival and Honolulu Film Awards, and were nominated at the Garden State Film Festival. They performed their song live on Fox and Friends in New York City.

They went on to work with Andrew Lane who produced the rest of their first album, titled "Bianca and Chiara D'Ambrosio", released September 23, 2014. On April 5, 2016, they released their new song "That's What Girls Do",^[17] which was produced by Jared Lee Gosselin and written by Chris La Vrar from America's Got Talent. They recently released the music video for the song on October 11, 2015, which was directed by Paul Boyd and featured Miss California 2016 Nadia Mejia and actor Mace Coronel from Nickelodeons Nicky, Ricky, Dicky, and Dawn.

The girls are currently in the studio working on original material.

On February 13th, the D’Ambrosio Twins released their album entitled, "Got You Covered" on iTunes and all streaming sources. "Got You Covered" is an album of songs the girls recorded and made YouTube videos based on songs they grew up hearing around the house on their dads iPod as well as songs they knew from movies, like “Kids in America” by Kim Wilde, that was in the film Clueless.^[18] The album is not your average pick of songs that a typical 11 year olds would play. They picked songs that were more instrument (Guitar and Drums) based and rocked. Songs ranged from Ramones to The Clash to Twenty One Pilots. The videos they posted of these songs got the attention of artists they covered, such as Bethany Costentino, who shared and tweeted “It’s Official, I’m quitting the band and letting these two have over @dambrosiotwins” (Twitter 10/31/16) and Linda Ramone, wife of Johnny Ramones reposting on Instagram and actually contacting the girls with great words of encouragement.^[19]

The girls learned the songs with their coach Marko DeSantis from the band Sugarcult and recorded them with Luke Tierney who performed in Virgin Records band Silverjet.^[20] The videos they made were done with video, commercial and film director Paul Boyd to look great.

The D’Ambrosio Twins released a video and single for “Young And Free" on June 1st and was directed by Paul Boyd. The song was co-written by Marko DeSantis of the band Sugarcult and features musical.ly sensation, Hayden Summerall. The video was premiered on Celebmix.

Singles

Albums

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Official website