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Isabella Rice

American television actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ20973995
Source-derived summary

Isabella Kai Rice (born September 13, 2006) is an American former child actress, best known for her role of young Alison DiLaurentis in the series Pretty Little Liars and Sarah Compton in True Blood.

Career

In 2014, Rice played the role of Sarah Compton, Bill Compton's daughter in the season 7 of the HBO's fantasy horror series True Blood. Later, she appeared in the season 5 and 6 of the ABC Family's teen drama series Pretty Little Liars. She played the role of young Alison DiLaurentis, originally played by Sasha Pieterse.

Rice has played the role of young Jerrica Benton in the 2015 musical fantasy film Jem and the Holograms, which was directed by Jon M. Chu.

Rice portrayed Lily in the female-centric thriller film Unforgettable (2017), along with Katherine Heigl, Rosario Dawson, and Geoff Stults for Warner Bros.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Isabella Rice” as american television actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2014, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006-09-13. The account is most persuasive where Isabella, Rice and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american television actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20973995. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2014, 2015 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from Isabella Rice” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.