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Saylor Curda

American actress and singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ135922095
Source-derived summary

Saylor Bell Curda (born May 19, 2004) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Maddox in the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Sadie Yoo on The CW series Walker, and Mayhem in the Peacock series Twisted Metal.

Career

Curda appeared as Maddox in the third and fourth season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, for Disney+. She had originally auditioned for the role of Nini, that role ultimately went to Olivia Rodrigo. She had previously also appeared with co-star Rodrigo in New Girl.

She had a guest starring role as Sadie Yoo in the third season of crime drama series Walker on the CW in 2023. In 2025, Curda had a recurring role as Mayhem in the second season of Twisted Metal for Peacock.

Personal life

Saylor Curda is American. Ethnically, she is of mixed descent with a Korean father and a Scottish mother. Curda has older siblings Glory, Major and Piper Curda who have also appeared on shows for the Disney Channel.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Saylor Curda” is american actress and singer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Saylor, Curda and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2023, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2004-05-19. For this dossier, Saylor, Curda and American is the immediate research focus.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q135922095. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2023 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from Saylor Curda” 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.