Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice

    With her flowing frizzy locks of voluminous red hair, Francesca Capaldi looks rather like a pint-size Merida from the movie “Brave.” Cesca is so adorable! The eight-year-old actress is very funny too, and is equally adept at playing the sweet “what-little-ol’-me?” card as she is  the slightly gullible naïve little girl who frequently miss-understand or alternatively gets words wrong to hilarious effect.  

     Francesca Capaldi stars in “Dog with a Blog,” as Chloe James the youngest sibling in the blended James-Jennings’s household. The role marks the series regular debut for the young actress. The James-Jenning family tend to leave her behind by accident a lot, and she can get in a lot of trouble!
   
      The writers of “Dog with a Blog,” have tenancy to play uneven with the Chloe character, in some episodes, she is hilarious with her spoonerisms, as in the “Sock-ologist” episode where she implores her father, “Daddy show them your socks.” And my favorite were when little Chloe miss-interprets Avery’s rousing “I’m Spartacus!” Chloe announces to her parents, “I’m asparagus!” Very funny. Other times the writers squander her comic potential as she sinks into cliché little girl annoying silliness with her repetitious refrain “I want to get my ears pierced!”
 

    Capaldi has previously appeared in episodes of Disney Channel’ “A.N.T. Farm,” and CBS’s comedy “How I met your Mother.” In addition, Capaldi was featured in the pilot for “Goodwin Games,” and Corbin Bernsen’s independent film “3 Day Test.” 

     Capaldi was nominated for Young Artist Award for “Best performance in a TV-series – Guest starring young actress ten and under.”