“HOUSE OF PAIN” ACTRESS NOW DISNEY’S HOTTEST RISING STAR WITH A HIT SERIES, ALBUM, & NEW CLOTHING LINE

In 2007, China Anne McClain was introduced to audiences worldwide as the precocious daughter Jazmine on Tyler Perry’s hit show, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne.” Audiences tuned in weekly to watch Jazmine spar with her older brother and the adults on the show. Today, 13 year-old China is following in the footsteps of Raven Symone, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez as the star of the Disney Channel’s newest hit comedy series “A.N.T. Farm.” She has also scored two hit singles for Disney’s Hollywood Records, “Calling All the Monsters” and a cover of Taio Cruz’  “Dynamite” for Disney’s popular Radio Disney Jams franchise. Currently, China is working on an album with her two sisters Sierra and Lauryn McClain (all three girls co-starred in Tyler Perry’s hit movie “Daddy’s Little Girls)”.

In the series, Chyna Parks (played by McClain) is a middle school musical prodigy who is enrolled in a prestigious A.N.T. (Advanced Natural Talents) program at a local high school. Along with her fellow A.N.Ts, Olive Doyle, an A.N.T. with a photographic memory and Fletcher Quimby, an artistic genius and practical joker, they discover the ups and downs of high school, three years earlier than expected.

Created by Dan Signer (“The Suite Life of Zack & Cody”) and executive-produced by Signer and Stephen Engel (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Mad About You,” “Dream On”), the series stars China Anne McClain, Sierra McCormick, Jake Short, Stefanie Scott and Carlon Jeffery. “A.N.T. Farm” premiered in July 2011 and for the year to date is TV’s No. 1 series in Kids 6-11 (2.0 million/8.1 rating) and Tweens 9-14 (1.6 million/6.8 rating).*

Ms. McClain and two of her cast mates, Stefanie Scott and Carlon Jeffery, perform songs from and inspired by the series on the “A.N.T. Farm” soundtrack from Walt Disney Records. Released in October, it spent five weeks at #1 on the Billboard Kids Album chart and yielded two hits for Ms. McClain, “Dynamite” and “Calling All the Monsters,” each spending several weeks at #1 on Radio Disney’s Top 30. Additionally, music videos for “Dynamite” and “Calling All the Monsters” have generated a combined 22 million views online via Disney Channel, YouTube and Vevo. Ms. McClain recently performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and will next be seen in the “Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade” on the ABC Television Network (Sunday, December 25, 12:00-2:00 p.m., ET).

On December 26, a new “D-Signed” collection debuts at Target stores nationwide, influenced by fashions worn by the character Chyna Parks in “A.N.T. Farm.”  It will be the latest in the popular collection in girl sizes 4 to 16 at Target stores nationwide and online at Target.com.

New episodes of “A.N.T. Farm” air FRIDAYS on Disney Channel. The series is a production of It’s A Laugh Productions, Inc and carries a TV-G parental guideline. The A.N.T. Farm Soundtrack and other Disney/Hollywood Records titles are distributed throughout the Caribbean by exclusive license of Tuff Gong International.