Sabrina Carpenter Net Worth & Biography (2025): Latest Updates, Career Highs, and Bold Moves

Introduction

What does it take for a Disney Channel star to become the most talked-about name in pop culture? In 2025, Sabrina Carpenter isn’t just making headlines—she’s rewriting the rules of what it means to be a global superstar. The 26-year-old Pennsylvania native has experienced unprecedented career highs with chart-topping hits like “Espresso” and “Please Please Please,” while her “Short n’ Sweet” album dominated both commercial and critical success. With bold fashion choices, sold-out arena tours, and an estimated net worth that has skyrocketed beyond expectations, Carpenter represents the new generation of multi-hyphenate entertainers who seamlessly blend music, acting, and cultural influence.

Quick Facts

Early Life

Carpenter was born in 1999 in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania to her parents Elizabeth and David. She has three older siblings: Sarah, Shannon, and half-sister Cayla. As a youth, she was homeschooled. At the age of ten years old, she started posting videos of herself singing on YouTube. In a 2010 singing contest run by Miley Cyrus, she came in third place.

She made her acting debut in 2011 on the NBC series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” playing the character of a young rape victim. Around this time, she also performed on China’s Hunan Broadcasting System for the Gold Mango Audience festival, singing Etta James’ classic “Something’s Got a Hold on Me.” She performed a  role on the Fox sitcom “The Goodwin Games.” and also had roles in the pilot episodes of the Disney Channel’s “Gulliver Quinn” and ABC’s “The Unprofessional.”

Television Career

After lending her voice for an animated series “Sofia the First” and appearing in episodes of “Orange Is the New Black” and “Austin & Ally,” she got her breakthrough role as Maya Hart on the comedy series “Girl Meets World.” It was a spinoff series to ABC’s popular 90s show “Boy Meets World.” During this period she also performed in the Disney Channel television movie “Adventures in Babysitting,”. From 2016 to 2019, she voiced the main role of Melissa Chase on the animated series “Milo Murphy’s Law,” which featured “Weird Al” Yankovic as the title character

Her additional television credits are the Argentine-Mexican telenovela “Soy Luna,” the children’s series “Mickey and the Roadster Racers,” and the musical comedy web series “Royalties.”

Film Career

On the silver screen, she first appeared in the 2012 comedy film “Noobz.” & followed this with a small part in the horror-comedy “Horns,” performing with Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple. After that “The Short History of the Long Road,” in which she had her first movie leading role. She performed the character of Nola, a teenager who lives a nomadic life on the road with her father. 

Music Career

 In 2014, she signed a five record deal with Hollywood Records & released her debut single, “Can’t Blame a Girl for Trying,” which premiered on Radio Disney. In 2015, Carpenter released “Eyes Wide Open,”. Later, in 2018, she put out the singles “Alien,” featuring Jonas Blue, and “Almost Love,” & it went on to appear on her third album, “Singular: Act I.” That album’s second part, “Singular: Act II,”.

Along with her own albums and singles, Carpenter has contributed her vocals to a number of other projects. In 2013, she sang the song “Smile” on the album “Disney Fairies: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust.” Next  year, she performed the song “Stand Out” in the Disney Channel television movie “How to Build a Better Boy,” and in 2017, recorded the theme song for the family series “Andi Mack.” 

In 2017, she collaborated with the Vamps and Mike Perry on the single “Hands”; it was featured on the Lost Kings single “First Love”; and sang “You’re a Mean One, Mr Grinch” on Lindsey Stirling’s holiday album “Warmer in the Winter.” Later on, she recorded the song “Let Me Move You” for the film “Work It,” in which she also performed.

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Musical Influences

 The artists who have influenced her musical style, Carpenter has included name Adele, Rihanna, and Christina Aguilera. She has also been inspired by Etta James, Whitney Houston, and Taylor Swift.

Stage Career

Carpenter has also had a wonderful career on stage. In December of 2015, she played Wendy in the Pasadena Playhouse production “Peter Pan and Tinker Bell: A Pirate’s Christmas.” In March 2020, she made her Broadway debut playing Cady Heron in “Mean Girls”; however, her run was curtailed due to the COVID pandemic.

Bassett has been together with Carpenter since June 2020, when they were seen at a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles. The couple has not publicly confirmed their relationship but shared videos on TikTok wearing matching Halloween costumes in October 2020.

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