Jennifer Stone
Jennifer Stone is an actor, born 1993.
Stone was a child actor with a small part in Secondhand Lions before Disney Channel found her. From 2007 to 2012 she played Harper Finkle on Wizards of Waverly Place, the best friend, and she played that job in the way it is rarely played. Harper was the loud one, the unfashionable one, the one with feelings she could not disguise, and Stone committed to the broadness completely instead of hedging toward cool.
That commitment is why the character survived the format. The show sent her out to the feature, to the crossover with Hannah Montana, and to the later reunion special, and Harper is recognisably the same person in all of them, which is more than the plots managed.
Outside the franchise the record is a run of family and teen work: the lead as Harriet Welsch in a Harriet the Spy sequel, a sidekick in Mean Girls 2, a Disney Channel comedy, and one horror picture that sits oddly among the rest.
Then she stopped. Wikipedia now describes her as a podcaster, a social media personality and a nurse, with acting in the past tense. Not many careers that begin at that level end in a job that useful, and the page is more interesting for it.
Movies (8)
TV (3)
Where to start with Jennifer Stone
Everything worth watching runs through Wizards of Waverly Place. Sample a middle season rather than the first: the show takes a while to work out that Harper is its release valve, and once it does, Stone gets the best lines in the house. Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie is the one made with real money and holds up as a family film on its own terms; The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex is a late curtain call that only lands if you watched the series.
If you want her before Disney, Secondhand Lions has her as a child in a much better film. Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars is the closest thing to a lead she was handed, a modest television movie doing an honest job. Skip Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana unless you are curating a crossover night, and treat Nothing Left to Fear as an outlier rather than a direction.