Carly Schroeder Biography

Carly's tag-along trip to her cousin’s audition in 1993 turned outto be her lucky day and the start of her career as an actress.While there, the cute three-year-old was spotted by the castingdirector and asked if she would consider working for them.WhileCarly’s mom, Kelli, was hesitant at first, the prospects of tuckingaway money for a college education appealed to her.“Carly going to Chicago once a month for a job would be fine aslong as it didn’t interfere with our family time,” Kelli said.After her first job, she began doing print work in Chicago forSears, K-Mart, Spiegel, Land’s End, Chuck E.Cheese’s, and manyother print advertisers.Two years later in 1995, renowned childdirector Bob Ebel was so taken by Carly’s wide-eyed innocenceand extra spark of enthusiasm, he asked her to do a fewcommercials.It was one of Ebel’s commercials - the one for Shake n’ Bake -which caught the eye of General Hospital cast member Kin Shriner.In 1997, ABC had decided that Shriner’s character, ScottyBaldwin, should have a daughter.Since he would be working veryclosely with the new cast member, Shriner asked if he couldparticipate in the selection of Baldwin’s daughter.Two weeks before a decision was to be made, the studio wasdown to five candidates for the part and still uncertain of whom tocast.It was at this serendipitous time that Carly’s commercial forShake n’ Bake began to air on national television.Shriner said, “Every time I turned on the tube, there was thisblonde-haired, blue-eyed, quirky little girl that made me laugh. ”Knowing that Scotty Baldwin had found his daughter at last,Shriner immediately showed the commercial to GH casting directorMark Teschner and executive producer, Wendy Riche.by Louie NeiraThey agreed to fly Carly out from her hometown of Valparaiso,Indiana for the screen test.Carly’s open and honest, friendly attitudequickly won over Shriner, Teschner, and everyone else who met her.In all likelihood, she already had the part as she left the auditionroom, but on her way out the door, Carly turned and said to them,“Hey! You all should come back to our hotel – they put us up in areal nice one with a pool,” not knowing that “they” were standing infront of her, Carly said goodbye, returning home with a four-yearcontract, and most of all, Shriner as a best friend for life.