Sofia Wylie

Wylie was born in Scottsdale, Arizona,^{[citation needed]} and grew up in Tramonto, to parents Chris and Amy. Her father is African-American of partial Korean ancestry, and her mother is white of German and English descent.^[3] She has an older sister, Isabella "Bella", who appeared in an episode of Chopped Junior and won.^[4] Wylie has been dancing since she was 5 years old,^[4] and trained in acting at Second City Training Center in Hollywood, California.^[1][5]

Wylie started her career in dance, making appearances on So You Think You Can Dance in 2011 and 2016 and America's Got Talent in 2015.^[6] She performed on Justin Bieber's Purpose World Tour.^[7][8] In 2017, she started the Internet-based 4K Dance Series with Utah dancers while filming Andi Mack.^[8] In 2019, she started Dancing with Sofia Wylie, an IGTV educational dance series.^[9]

In 2016, it was announced that Wylie would star in her first major acting role as Buffy Driscoll, a main character and one of Andi's best friends on the Disney Channel series Andi Mack.^[3][10] Wylie made her film debut as Cory Bailey in the 2019 Australian film, Back of the Net,^[11] which had a theatrical release in Australia and aired on Disney Channel in the United States.^[12] Wylie debuted her first single, "Side by Side", for Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts in January 2019.^[13] She voiced the role of Riri Williams / Ironheart in the animated TV movie Marvel Rising: Heart of Iron, which aired on Disney XD.^[14] She reprised the role for Marvel Rising: Battle of the Bands and in season 3 of Spider-Man.

On February 15, 2019, Wylie was cast as Gina Porter in the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, which was available from launch that November.^[15] It was announced in August that Wylie would star as Mia in Shook, a short-form web series premiering on Disney Channel's YouTube channel in September.^[16]

In March 2019, Wylie launched a production company, AIFOS^[17] and optioned the rights to adapt Jenny Torres Sanchez's novel, The Fall of Innocence, as its first project.^[18] In June 2019, Wylie signed with United Talent Agency.^[19]