CULTURETECHLENSDara Reneé
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07090 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5834.
Dara Reneé, born Dara Reneé Brooks in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American actress, singer and songwriter from a performing family: her mother, Kimberly Brooks, is an actress who founded a nonprofit performing-arts school, and her grandmother sang with the 1960s Baltimore soul group The Royalettes. Reneé made her screen debut as Savannah in Disney Channel's Freaky Friday (2018), then played Kourtney Greene across all four seasons of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019–2023) on Disney+. She co-hosted Disney's Magic Bake-Off and, in 2024, stepped into the Descendants franchise as Uliana, younger sister of Ursula, in Descendants: The Rise of Red, a performance her biographical record credits with an Emmy Award nomination.
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Dara Reneé, born Dara Reneé Brooks in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American actress, singer and songwriter from a performing family: her mother, Kimberly Brooks, is an actress who founded a nonprofit performing-arts school, and her grandmother sang with the 1960s Baltimore soul group The Royalettes.
The record
- Also known as: Dara Reneé Brooks
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 8; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Dara Reneé entity in the live graph at 3,523 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5834 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 910 (TV Actresses list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American performer; Baltimore-raised, from a family rooted in Baltimore Black performing arts, per sourced biography. Vital status: LIVING — active in 2025–2026 Disney franchise touring and premieres (entertainment coverage, accessed 2026-10-16). CONFLICTS CARRIED: birth date — Wikipedia gives only 2000 or 2001, while other biographical listings give 7 November 2000. Carried unresolved; no exact birth date is asserted in the description. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Kourtney Greene across High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019–2023); Uliana in Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024), credited in her biographical record with an Emmy Award nomination for the role — BroadwayWorld/Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and Disney/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5834-dara-renee.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/performances are)
Sources
- BroadwayWorld, reproducing Disney's announcement, "Disney+ Drops Descendants: The Rise of Red Teaser" (5 March 2024) — Dara Reneé of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series cast as Uliana — https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Video-Disney-Drops-DESCENDANTS-THE-RISE-OF-RED-Teaser-With-China-Anne-McClain-20240305 (primary source · build store)
- Wikipedia, "Dara Reneé" — born Dara Reneé Brooks in Los Angeles, raised in Baltimore; mother Kimberly Brooks; grandmother in The Royalettes; Kourtney Greene in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series; Uliana in Descendants: The Rise of Red with an Emmy Award nomination; host of Disney's Magic Bake-Off — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dara_Reneé (build store)
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