JOJO "Acting career"

Early work JoJo has acted since age four. She did local theater, radio, and TV commercials in the New England area, and national TV shows from age seven. JoJo made her professional stage debut at eight in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Mustardseed at the Huntington Theater. She received her first union card from the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA) at ten. After appearing on the television series The Bernie Mac Show and American Dreams, JoJo was cast opposite Emma Roberts and Sara Paxton in Aquamarine, playing Hailey. The film opened on March 3, 2006, opening at number five with $7.5 million.[37] Her second major film, RV, a comedy starring Robin Williams, was released on April 28, 2006. It opened at number one and grossed $69.7 million. JoJo had to audition for the part five times, and eventually replaced an actress who had already been cast in the role.[13] She stated that "no one hired an acting coach for me on the set of Aquamarine. She will be billed as "Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque" in her film roles, but will still be credited as simply "JoJo" for her music work. In 2005 she was offered a role as Zoe Stewart in the success television series Hannah Montana on Disney Channel but she turned down the role because she was not really interested doing a television show. She was more concerned with being a legitimate artist and a film career was not really what she sees for herself.[38][39][40][41] On August 28, 2007, in an interview with BOP and Tiger Beat online, JoJo stated that she was working on a new film. On September 10, JoJo revealed that she would be traveling to Toronto to film a small screen adaptation of Lola Douglas' True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet and play the role of Morgan Carter, to be broadcast on Lifetime television. Filming has begun.[42] The new film was released in August 9, 2008 on Lifetime television. On March 3, 2009 the film will be released on DVD.[43] JoJo's main career will be singing, as she prefers this to acting.