Her breakout role was playing a child star on Desperate Housewives and her half-sister is a VERY famous pop singer – but can you guess who she is?
She started out as a child actor with a high-profile role, but now she's just days away from turning 22.
This dark-haired beauty was first introduced to the world as a child star on the hit series Desperate Housewives.
She was a featured player during seasons five through seven, before joining the series as a lead for the eighth and final season.
But she also has a great connection to the entertainment industry, as she is the younger half-sister of a major pop star.
Can you guess who this rising star is?
Madi has appeared in several television series and most recently attended the screenwriting program at Chapman University
She is Madison De La Garza.
Best known for playing Juanita Solis, the daughter of star Eva Longoria, in Desperate Housewives, while her half-sister is newly engaged pop star Demi Lovato.
It was a small, uncredited role for the child star, but she followed it up with a one-episode guest role on another of her sister's projects, the Disney show Sonny With A Chance.
Madi was perfect for the role, as she played a younger version of her half-sister's character Sonny.
After proving she had what it takes, she scored her most high-profile role yet on ABC's hit series Desperate Housewives.
She played Juanita Solis, who was played by another actor in season four before taking over until the end of the series.
Juanita was the daughter of Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) and Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira), but her mischief made her a natural source of comic relief on the primetime soap.
Since then, Madi has had a recurring role on the single-season CBS series Bad Teacher, and she also guest-starred on the ABC series American Koko.
She was recently seen in the short film Clear earlier this year.
She also appeared in the four-episode docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing With The Devil, which focused on her older sister's career and her struggles with substance abuse.
She got her start playing Eva Longoria's daughter on Desperate Housewives, but she is also the half-sister of pop star Demi Lovato. Can you guess who she is?
She is the actress Madison De La Garza (in the photo second from the left next to half-sister Demi Lovato)
She was only six when she was cast in Desperate Housewives as the replacement for Juanita, the daughter of Eva Longoria's character Gabrielle.
Born in Dallas, Texas, Madi graduated from high school in 2019 and then enrolled in the screenwriting program at Chapman University, and much of her schooling equates to a slower acting pace.
So far, she hasn't made it clear whether she plans to continue acting, or if she wants to focus on writing instead. Her Instagram bio now lists her as a director and screenwriter, suggesting her ambitions are now behind the camera as part of the creative team.
However, she has previously delved into the devastating effects her early taste of fame had on her.
During a performance at the Heart of the matter podcast in April this year, Madi revealed she had developed an eating disorder when she was seven, just a year after being cast in Desperate Housewives.
She said she was cyberbullied and read mean comments about her weight as a child.
“The reactions I got to my character on Desperate Housewives were just shocking,” she said. “A lot of people approached it in a way that they were 'concerned about my health.' And I personally believe that that's just not true, that it was a cover up so they could just judge a six-year-old.”
Garza's parents wouldn't allow her to go online unsupervised, but she was still on the computer when they weren't looking, and that's when she saw the most hateful comments.
She recalled falling down a rabbit hole and spending “hours and hours” reading negativity about her body from complete strangers.
“I would just spend an awful lot of time reading through these comments, and most of them were just horrible. They said things like they wanted me to die because of the way I looked. It was just horrible,” she remembers. “And this was when I was seven or eight years old.”
She added: 'Reading comments like that definitely affected my mental health and ultimately led to me developing an eating disorder at a very young age.'
She didn't think her treatment was a surprise to her on-screen mother, Eva Longoria, as her entire presence amounted to some kind of visual gag.
“The whole joke of my character was that Eva was a skinny, beautiful model and her daughter turned out to be the exact opposite,” she explained. “And so I think she was very aware that this would affect me.”
But while the two never “spoke explicitly” about body image issues and cyberbullying, Garza recalled that Longoria “definitely went out of her way to make me feel beautiful and special, and she made me feel like family used to be. .'
Madi got her start in Disney shows and TV movies starring her sister Demi, including an episode of Sonny With A Chance in which she played a younger version of her sister's title character.
In April, she said on the Heart Of The Matter podcast that she developed an eating disorder at the age of seven after reading mean comments about her weight online while appearing on Desperate Housewives.
Since then, she has gotten sober like her big sister and is now focusing on writing and directing after making several short films. She will celebrate her 22nd birthday on December 28
“And if I ever wanted to go to her with these things, I absolutely could have,” she said.
Like her sister Demi, Madi revealed earlier this year that she was now sober after discovering her over-reliance on substances, which she described as her “best friend.” E! News.
She said seeing her sister Demi get sober after coming so close to death from an overdose was an inspiration.
Madi's next big milestone is celebrating her 22nd birthday on December 28.