Fans can now see Callie as Leia doing her ‘90s thing on Netflix. The show follows the character as she visits her grandparents, Red and Kitty Forman, played by Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp, over the summer.
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Before the star burst onto the Hollywood scene, she spent her childhood in Austin, Texas in a family of six. Per HITC, Callie is one of four kids. Her parents are Tony and Denise Haverda, who are an executive at Open Text and a recruiter for New York Life Insurance respectively.
As the previously homeschooled actress told ATX Today, “My siblings were actors before me for a little while — they don’t do it anymore. That’s kind of how I got into it, because their agent sent me out for an audition and I ended up booking it.”
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Callie added, “Actually, because I was so young, my parents didn’t really want me to jump into it, because my siblings are both older than me. So they were kind of wary about it.” She also told Texas Lifestyle Magazine, “I actually wasn’t allowed to act until I was old enough to decide for myself this was what I really wanted to do.”