Background
Mary Lou was born in Burbank, California, and attended Burbank High School, also attended by Blake Lively of Gossip Girl fame.
Mary Lou was born in Burbank, California, and attended Burbank High School, also attended by Blake Lively of Gossip Girl fame.
She is best known for playing Mary Ferry on the Nickelodeon television series Unfabulous, also starring Emma Roberts. After this performance, she chose acting as her career. Over the next few years, Lou went on to sing at over two dozen venues throughout Southern California, Texas and Tennessee, winning multiple local, state, regional, national and world championship titles.
Mary Lou has appeared as a guest star on programmes such as Philosophy of the Future, as a math-nerd named Alex, as well as Glee, 3 lbs and What Should You Do?.
She also appeared in made for television movies including Future Girls: Adventures in Marine Biology and Bad Mother"s Handbook. She continues to audition daily for feature films, television and voiceover.
In 2004, Mary Lou landed her most prominent role to date on Unfabulous as a nerd called Mary Ferry. Sue Rose, executive producer of the show claims that Mary Ferry was only originally intended for one episode but was "so funny and likable" she appears in thirty altogether.
Mary Lou’s show business career started at age six when she entertained as a member of Singing Solo (a children"s singing group located in Louisiana Mesa, California) at a local street fair with a rendition of The Good Ship Lollipop.