- Sophia is one of the stars of The School for Good & Evil.
- Sophia got her start in theater.
- Sophia is also a singer.
Sophia Anne Caruso is about to be a household name. The 21-year-old actress is starring in Netflix’s new film The School for Good & Evil, which is being released on October 19. The movie is based on Soman Chainani’s bestselling series of the same name.
So, who is Sophia Anne Caruso? She’s been a Broadway, and now she’s about to have her breakthrough movie moment. Here’s what you need to know about Sophia.
1. Sophia stars as Sophie in The School for Good & Evil.
Sophia plays Sophia in the Netflix film, alongside Sofia Wylie, Kerry Washington, and more. Sophia is Agatha’s best friend, and they both are sent to The School for Good & Evil. Soman told Netflix that Sophie is a “nearly unplayable part – she’s a diva, a witch masquerading as a princess, at once supremely charismatic and an alluring narcissist, which makes you root for her but also hate her, like some renegade version of Regina George.”
Sophia admitted that “there’s a bit of all of us in Sophie. She’s both good and evil. Granted, there’s a lot of darkness in her, but there’s also this goodheartedness that’s hiding deep down. And I found that a lot of people feel the same, myself included. She shows that we’re all a little good and a little evil and that’s okay.”
2. Sophia is known for starring in the Broadway production of Beetlejuice.
She originated the role of Lydia Deetz in the musical Beetlejuice, which began its run on Broadway in 2019. She left the show in February 2020. She made her Broadway debut in the 2016 production of Blackbird.
3. Sophia is from Washington.
Sophia was born in Spokane, Washington, and spent most of her childhood there before her family moved to New York. Sophia’s dad is Steve Caruso, a former professional golfer.
4. Sophia is a brunette.
In The School for Good & Evil, Sophia has platinum blonde hair. In April 2022, Sophia revealed that she had dyed her hair brown, her natural hair color. “Back to my roots,” she wrote on Instagram.
5. Sophia recently dropped a new single.
Sophia released the single “Thing Like That” on September 30, 2022. “It’s meant to feel like more pop than the other stuff, but still not quite pop. It’s been sitting in Dropbox for years now. I’ll write stuff, and then it sits there until I’m ready to finish it,” she told Nylon. The actress admitted she has enough songs to “release an album or more, but it’s just every song is so different, and I feel albums tell an overall story, to me, or a lot of really great songs on albums get lost in the mix.”