Charlotte McDonnell is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, musician, former vlogger, author and Twitch streamer from Bath, Somerset.
31 Facts About Charlotte McDonnell
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In 2010, Charlotte McDonnell released a solo album titled This Is Me.
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Charlotte McDonnell directed a series of short films from 2013 to 2014, and co-hosted the weekday morning YouTube breakfast show Cereal Time with Capital FM presenter and fellow YouTube vlogger Jimmy Hill from 2015 to 2016.
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Charlotte McDonnell creates content on Twitch, where she plays different video games.
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Charlotte McDonnell was born on 1 October 1990 and raised in Bath, Somerset to parents Lindsey and Mark.
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Charlotte McDonnell has two younger siblings: her brother, William, and her sister, Bridie.
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Charlotte McDonnell was educated at Beechen Cliff School, a local state comprehensive foundation school.
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Charlotte McDonnell first came to prominence when her video titled How To Get Featured on YouTube became popular after it was featured on YouTube's UK homepage.
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Charlotte McDonnell's audience jumped from just under 150 subscribers to over 4,000 in two days.
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Charlotte McDonnell created her YouTube channel as a form of procrastination while revising for her GCSE.
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In January 2008, in celebration of gaining 25,000 subscribers, Charlotte McDonnell asked for 25 challenge suggestions from subscribers, which sparked her series of Challenge Charlie videos.
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Charlotte McDonnell completed all of these challenges by March 2013, one of which was suggested by TV presenter Phillip Schofield and his daughter Molly, challenging McDonnell to perform the dance that accompanies the song "Hoedown Throwdown" from Hannah Montana: The Movie.
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Around 2013, Charlotte McDonnell began to feel "burned out" from content creation and realised she "felt much happier not being on camera".
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Charlotte McDonnell moved to Toronto, Canada, in 2017, and began working with the production company New Form.
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In March 2019, Charlotte McDonnell announced on Twitter that she had quit YouTube to focus on screenwriting.
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On 8 March 2013, Charlotte McDonnell announced that she would be making five short films.
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Charlotte McDonnell was one of the founding members of Chameleon Circuit, a band known for creating music inspired by the British television series Doctor Who.
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In October 2009, Charlotte McDonnell was named as one of a number of prominent YouTube users who would be participating in a project called RNLI Shout.
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Charlotte McDonnell was cast in the series for her familiarity to young British YouTube viewers.
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Charlotte McDonnell edited the single's official music video, which was shown nationwide on British music channels such as 4Music and Viva.
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Charlotte McDonnell was purportedly approached to be a Housemate on the eighth series, and first revived series, of Celebrity Big Brother but declined the offer.
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In October 2013, it was announced that Charlotte McDonnell was to play the main voice role along with Danny Wallace in Mike Bithell's indie video game Volume.
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Charlotte McDonnell made a video regarding consent on her YouTube channel.
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On 6 June 2010, Charlotte McDonnell presented the YouTube Audience Award to The Inbetweeners as part of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Television Awards.
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In July 2010 Charlotte McDonnell was signed up alongside KateModern star Emma Pollard and X Factor contestants Nicola and Fran Gleadall to present a TV show run by Piers Morgan called FirstTV, an offshoot of First News newspaper.
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On FirstTV Charlotte McDonnell did a few challenges like trying to break a Guinness world record by typing the alphabet on an iPad keyboard quickest and she got asked to tell a joke.
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However, after filming four episodes of FirstTV, Charlotte McDonnell decided to leave the show because she did not enjoy presenting pre-scripted work.
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In November 2010, Charlotte McDonnell was part of a group of YouTube videos called The Science of Attraction where she hosted a few experiments and had her body digitally swapped with somebody else's.
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Charlotte McDonnell was a co-presenter with Kat Akingbade and Derren Brown.
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In December 2010, Charlotte McDonnell filmed a series of behind-the-scenes videos for Doctor Who Confidential during the filming of the Doctor Who Christmas special "A Christmas Carol".
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In January 2023, Charlotte McDonnell came out as a trans woman on YouTube, and announced she began feminising hormone therapy in September 2022.