By Cordillia Marvine
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Peyton Roi List (born April 6, 1998) is an American actress. List began her career as a child model for tween magazines and companies before transitioning to acting with a minor role in the romantic comedy film 27 Dresses (2008) at the age of ten. As a child actress, she appeared in films Remember Me (2010) and Bereavement (2010), before her breakthrough role as Holly Hills in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series (2011–2012). List gained further attention for portraying Emma Ross on the Disney Channel series Jessie (2011–2015) and its spinoff Bunk’d (2015-18, 2021).
List transitioned to mainstream roles with the YouTube Premium thriller film The Thinning (2016). Her film credits includes Valley Girl, (2020) Hubie Halloween (2020), Paper Spiders (2021), and The Inheritance (2024). She plays Olivia Richmond on the first season of the Hulu web series Light as a Feather (2018), Tory Nichols in the Netflix series Cobra Kai (2019–2025), and Maddie Nears in the Paramount+ series School Spirits (2023–present).
List was born April 6, 1998. She has two brothers, her twin Spencer, and a younger brother, Phoenix, both of whom are also actors.
As a youth, List attended school in New York City at The Carroll School (P.S. 58) for elementary school, and the New Voices School for Academic and Creative Arts (M.S. 443) for middle school.
During her early childhood, List also trained as a dancer, studying ballet, jazz, tap, and hip-hop until she was in sixth grade.
She attended Oak Park High School in Oak Park, California, graduating in 2016.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- King Richard I (English monarch, called Richard the Lionheart) –
- Raphael (artist) –
- Tammy Wynette (American country music singer ) –
- Victor Argo (actor) –
- Niki Sullivan (guitarist for Buddy Holly and the Crickets) –
- Prince Rainier III of Monaco –
- Corin Redgrave (actor) –
- Thomas Kinkade (painter; often referred to as Painter of Light”“) –
- Mickey Rooney (actor) –
- James Best (actor; best known as Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard) –
Born
- Raphael (artist) –
- Gerry Mulligan (jazz musician) –
- Billy Dee Williams (actor) –
- John Ratzenberger (actor) –
- Marilu Henner (actress) –
- Bret Boone (baseball player) –
- Paul Rudd (actor) –
- Lou Merloni (baseball player) –
- Zach Braff (actor) –
- Peyton List (actress) –
- Twin mongoose lemurs (born at Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida) –
Events
- Brigham Young, the Mormon Church leader, married his 27th and last wife –
- Snow-melting apparatus patented –
- Vancouver, British Columbia, was incorporated –
- The first modern Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece –
- Admiral Robert Peary and his African-American assistant Matthew Henson reached what was believed to be the North Pole –
- The U.S. declared war on Germany (WW I) –
- Bakery manager, Jimmy Dewar, invented a cream filled sponge cake, now known as the Twinkie –
- The first Tony Awards were presented at a dinner in the Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on Easter Sunday –
- Paramount Pictures signed Elvis Presley to a three-movie contract just five days after his first screen test –
- Intelsat-1 (nicknamed Early Bird), the world’s first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, was launched from Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral) in Florida –
- Microsoft released Windows 3.1 –
- UConn’s women’s basketball team completed a championship sweep for the school by beating Tennessee 70-61 for the NCAA women’s title. The victory followed UConn’s win over Georgia Tech in the men’s championship game the previous night, making Connecticut the first Division I school to sweep both titles –
- A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck central Italy –
Weather
- A blizzard in New York and throughout New England brought high winds and up to 30 inches of snow –
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