She has stated that her paternal great-grandfather moved from the Philippines to the United States as a teenager and her family follows Filipino traditions and cuisine.
Her father works as a family therapist and her mother works as a school teacher. Rodrigo is biracial, with her father being a Filipino-American and her mother having German and Irish ancestry. She lived and grew up in neighboring Temecula. Olivia Isabel Rodrigo was born on February 20, 2003, at Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, California. Life and career 2003–2019: Early life and acting career 1.2 2020–present: Music breakthrough and Sour.1.1 2003–2019: Early life and acting career.Time named her the 2021 Entertainer of the Year and Billboard named her Woman of the Year in 2022. In addition to several other recognitions, she has won three Grammy Awards out of seven nominations, an American Music Award, seven Billboard Music Awards and four MTV Video Music Awards. Rodrigo has achieved two Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles and one Billboard 200 number-one album as well as five multi-Platinum certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The following year, Disney+ released the documentary Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U, which chronicled Rodrigo's creative process with Sour. Rodrigo then released her debut solo studio album, Sour (2021), which received widespread critical recognition and commercial success, and won her several awards including three Grammy Awards. She followed it up that year with the singles " Deja Vu" and " Good 4 U".
After signing with Geffen and Interscope Records in 2020, Rodrigo released her debut single " Drivers License", which broke various records and became one of the best-selling songs of 2021, propelling her to mainstream fame. She gained recognition in the late 2010s with her lead roles on the Disney television programs Bizaardvark and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. Olivia Isabel Rodrigo (born February 20, 2003) is an American singer-songwriter and actress.