Caroline Sunshine, a former Disney Channel star, has joined the White House press team as an assistant after completing an internship there.
Sunshine, 22, appeared in the Disney Channel show "Shake It Up," a series about teenage dancers, People magazine reported. The show aired from 2010 to 2013.
"Caroline Sunshine was a White House intern," Lindsay Walters, a White House spokeswoman, told CNN. "In college, she was involved with the American Enterprise Institute and an active member of her school's Model United Nations team.”
"Prior to her internship at the White House, Caroline interned for the Office of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the College Republican National Committee and the California Republican Party," Walters said.
A biography for Sunshine and other media information does not mention what university or college Sunshine attended during her internships with the White House or McCarthy.
CNN said Sunshine has a healthy social media presence with more than 500,000 Twitter followers and another 235,000 on Instagram. She also has 1.6 million followers on Facebook.
E! News reported that Sunshine also appeared opposite Owen Wilson in the 2010 movie "Marmaduke" and in the 2017 Lifetime movie "Mommy, I Didn't Do It."
According to the actress's biography, Sunshine was born in Atlanta to Thom and Karen Sunshine and raised in Orange County, California. She participated in the Orange County Children's Theater and danced competitively with the South Coast Performing Arts studio in Tustin, California.
Sunshine's appointment continues Trump's recent hiring from the television ranks, according to The Hill. Former CNBC host Larry Kudlow recently joined the administration as Trump's chief economic adviser, and former Fox News analyst and President George W. Bush appointee John Bolton was hired as the president's national security adviser.
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