Ally Dawson

“	I conquered my stage fright!	”
	— Ally, in Chapters & Choices

Ally Dawson

Information

Full Name

Ally Dawson

Nickname(s)

Ally-Gator (by Miss Suzy)
Allly (by Billl)
Bird Girl (by Mindy)
AllyCat88 (username on MyTewb)
Hawk-Eye Dawson (by herself)
Ally D (by herself)
Goose Pickle (by Austin)
Lady (by Austin)
Wicked Kitty (by Val)
Roxy Rocket (alias in Austin & Alias)

Gender

Female

Date of birth

February 1996

Resides in

Miami, Florida

Occupation

Singer
Songwriter
Sales girl
Student
Cloudwatcher
Head of Mall Association

Eye color

Brown

Hair color

Brown (Season 1)
Chestnut with amber highlights (Season 2-present)
Medium brown with caramel highlights (Season 3)

Family

Lester Dawson (father)
Penny Dawson (mother)
Aunt Sally (mentioned in Albums & Auditions)
Owen (pet bird)
Two Grandmothers (mentioned in Spas & Spices)

Romances

Austin Moon (Boyfriend)
Dallas (former crush)
Ethan (former crush)
Elliot (former crush)
Gavin Young (ex-boyfriend)

School

Marino High School

Production

First episode

"Rockers & Writers"

Portrayed by

Laura Marano
Lauren Boles (Younger)
Raini Rodriguez (Freaky Friends & Fan Fiction)
Calum Worthy (Voice) (Freaky Friends & Fan Fiction)

Sad Ally; Beach Bums & Bling — Ally after losing her crystal shoes in Beach Bums & Bling.

Ally Dawson is the deuteragonist of the show. She is a kind, smart, and talented girl. She is an aspiring singer/songwriter who used to have severe stage fright. She wrote the hit song, Double Take, which Austin Moon accidentally stole and performed in the episode Rockers & Writers, which made him famous. After that, Ally forgives him and they become partners. Ally is best friends with Trish, Austin, and also Dez. Her parents are Lester and Penny, who are divorced. Her father owns Sonic Boom, the music store which is shown throughout the first two seasons. She has always had a passion for music and feels that there's no better way to express what you're feeling. Over the two seasons, she becomes more confident and in the episode Chapters & Choices, she conquers her stage fright and sings with Austin. She's a sweet girl and always tries her best to not hurt anyone's feelings. She always tries her best at everything and she never quits what she starts, even when she is scared or frightened. She is the girlfriend of Austin Moon

Ally is portrayed by Laura Marano.

Personality

Austin-and-ally 018 600x800 — Publicity photo.

Ally is shown to be awkward, optimistic, compassionate, romantic and very friendly. In the first season, she's introduced as a shy, dorky girl with an incredible talent, but no confidence to push her enough to show it. Her hobbies include cloud watching, practicing calligraphy, basket weaving and watching old historical movies. Still, she has a fire in her, seeing as she displays traits of perfectionism and has a competitive nature. As Season 2 came, she's shown to be more confident with herself, soon shedding her stage fright in Chapters & Choices and becoming more comfortable on stage and performing. She's grown to be more effervescent, stylish, self assured and opinionated. She refuses to let emotions get the better of her and has a more on-task nature. In Season 3, she becomes even more confident and mature at the same time. Ally learns to stand up for herself and never give up, facing all the problems.

Biography

Background

Ally Dawson was born to Lester and Penny Dawson. Sometime before or during her early teenage years, Ally's parents divorced. Ally began to live with her father in Miami while her mother traveled for her job. Ally has always had serious stage fright. As revealed in Filmmaking & Fear Breaking, Ally developed this fear when she auditioned for the Music University of New York (M.U.N.Y). She was very nervous about the audition. When it was her turn, the man auditioning the kids began to give her more nerves. Ally began to hallucinate and ended up completely failing the audition. From there on, Ally has been scared of public humiliation. In Chapters & Choices, Ally's fear is broken.

Ally also is shown in the series to have been a very musically gifted girl growing. When she was only in kindergarten, she wrote a song titled The Butterfly Song (shown in Bloggers & Butterflies). Ally is also shown to have been a very good girl and she always follows rules.

History

Physical Appearance

Ally Dawson (3) — Ally Dawson in Season 2.

Ally is shown to be a pretty teenage girl with large brown eyes, pale skin and wavy, chestnut hair. In Season 2, she has ombre hair, meaning it gets lighter going down from her roots, starting at her natural brown and ending in a blonde. As time goes on, her hair grows from shoulder length to armpit length. She has a small, petite frame and usually wears high shoes to mask that.

In Season 1, her style is more bohemian, wearing delicate dresses, lots of lace and modest colors or floral patterns. As for accessories, Ally wore lots of vintage jewelry, like, a pendant or a long beaded necklace. She usually wore heeled boots with lace socks. She often layered her outfits with cardigans and dresses.

In Season 2, her style is more extroverted and a complete change from her previous choices in clothing. Her clothes are more girly, modern, tight fitting and sassy, with a lot of neon colors. She wears a lot of bold tops with neon colored pants and short, tight skirts. For the shoes, she always seems to be wearing colorful wedged sandals. She also still layers her clothing with loose tops over her dresses, colorful jean jackets or vests over a tank top. Her accessory usually include a necklace with her name encrypted.

In Season 3, her hair is seen to be a lighter brown. It also seems to be a bit longer and curlier. She wears more cardigans with her tops. She still wears the same kind of outfits as in Season 2 She also seems to wear more skirts and dresses in Season 3, especially when she's hanging out at the beach club with her friends.

Relationships

Friends

Austin Moon

Best Friend/Partner/Boyfriend

Main article: Auslly

7521a0d623ee11e3ab4322000a1fa430 7 — Finally, the unblocked kiss!!!

Austin and Ally are good friends and have a more-than-friends relationship. Ally really cares about Austin's feelings and hates lying to him, and it is shown in Kangaroos & Chaos Austin also cares a lot about Ally's feelings and was the one who asked Ally to become his permanent songwriter and partner in the first episode. Austin has also helped Ally get over her stage fright.

Also, Ally helped Austin to face his fear of umbrellas in Filmmaking & Fear Breaking. Austin and Ally performed the song they wrote together twice. Interviews with the cast say that they will date in later episodes. Ally tells Trish that she likes Austin in Girlfriends & Girl Friends. Austin tells Dez that he likes Ally in Campers & Complications. Austin and Ally began to lean in for a kiss in Campers & Complications, but they were interrupted when Ally told Austin that she wanted the song to have specific chords. They finally kissed in Chapters & Choices, but Kira ruins the moment when she tells Austin that she'll be his girlfriend. Austin and Ally became a couple in Partners & Parachutes. In Couples & Careers, they went on their first date. They took a break in their relationship in Couples & Careers. In Tunes & Trials Austin writes a song about his feelings for Ally.

In Real Life & Reel Life, Dez and Trish decide to make a movie about Austin and Ally, but it is revealed in the process that Ally wanted to end their partnership and Austin met with another songwriter. This starts a huge fight between them. Dez and Trish decided to shoot the scene where they sing You Can Come to Me. This results with Austin and Ally kissing again, even after Dez said cut three times. They both apologized to each other afterwards and claimed that the kiss was just "acting".

In Fresh Starts & Farewells, Ally tells Trish that she still has feelings for Austin and that being apart for 3 months might ruin what they feel for each other. Ally comes to the bus to say goodbye and they hug. Austin runs off the bus and almost admits he loves her by almost saying "I love you", but instead gives her a card that on the outside says, "Thinking Of You." Ally gets overly jealous of Austin hanging out with Chelsea in Princesses & Prizes. However, they decide to see other people. Austin revealed to still having feelings for Ally in Hunks & Homecoming and wanted to get back together with her. Unfortunately, Ally started dating Gavin at the end of the episode, leaving Austin heartbroken.

In Proms & Promises, Piper becomes suspicious about their relationship when Austin is being sweet with Ally by saying she always looks good, and holds her hand, making Ally blush. Ally also wonders if she's with the right guy. Is it possible that Austin is her perfect guy? At prom, Austin kept mentioning Ally, making Piper even more suspicious. At the end of the episode, Ally walks into prom and catch's Austin's eye, and he then realizes he's made a huge mistake - he's meant to be at prom with Ally instead of Piper! In the next episode, Last Dances & Last Chances, they admitted they still have feelings for each other, and never stopped. Austin then asked Ally out and she said yes. They then shared their third kiss and finally got back together.

Trish De la Rosa

Best Friend Forever/Practically Sisters/Manager

Main article: Trally

Ally and Trish are best friends. Ally tolerates Trish's craziness and the fact that Trish can't hold down a job. Trish often pushes Ally to do more things as shown in Rockers & Writers. They have been best friends since childhood and both support each other, even though Trish can be a bad listener towards others, mainly Ally. Ally will often save Trish, as shown in Soups & Stars They also appear to have two different handshakes as shown in Rockers & Writers and Crybabies & Cologne. But it is also strongly shown that Trish and Ally have a clear and a very well friendship. It is assumed that they have been friends since kindergarten from the episode Bloggers & Butterflies, seeing as when Tilly finishes performing the Ladybug Song, they turn to each other and grimace. Trish also seems to believe Ally, seeing as in Backups & Breakups, when Ally tells Trish that Trent is cheating on Trish, Trish believes Ally, knowing that Ally would never lie to her. Ally's mom even knows Trish well enough that she named a baby gorilla after her, because it was lazy.

Trish is now Ally's manager in the episode Partners & Parachutes, and is shown doing "manager tasks" in Solos & Stray Kitties, when she gets Ally a part in a big showcase. In "Beach Clubs & BFFs", Trish gets jealous of Ally and Kira because of them hanging out closely and Trish can't join because of her work. When Ally is about to perform on stage in this episode, Trish accidentally breaks the club's meat roaster and it speeds up really fast and the roasted pig hits Ally, thus, creating the "flying pig" incident and embarasses her. Ally gets mad at Trish for doing it on purpose, but Trish didn't, and she tells Ally that she's only mad because of her and Kira. Kira tells Ally that she needs to apologize to Trish because she didn't do it on purpose and then later in the episode, Ally apologizes to her and she forgives her. Trish introduces Ally on her performance, to re-do Ally's performance. She tells the audience Ally wrote the song about her, called "Redial", which is about Ally and Trish's friendship. At the end of her performance, Ally and Trish hug.

Dez Wade

Best Freckled Friend

Main article: Delly

Ally and Dez don't show too much interaction even though they hang out, maybe due to Austin being both their friends. Dez gives Ally a ham in Rockers & Writers and he has the idea to read Ally's diary in Secrets & Songbooks. In Soups & Stars, Dez tells Ally that he is her BFF, "Best Freckled Friend." Dez usually helps out Ally in her times of needs but he ends up messing things up even more. Sometimes he teases Ally about being uncool and having nerdy/lame interests. He's always using the instruments in the Sonic Boom unconventionally, annoying Ally. Dez sometimes unintentionally says things that insult or hurt Ally's feelings, but they are still good friends. In Freaky Friday & Fiction, Ally gets trapped in Dez's body. Ally keeps saying she'll explain to Dez their plan in Austin & Alias when he doesn't understand it.

Kira Starr

Best Friend/Twinzies

Main article: Kally

Kira and Ally became good friends when they first met in Ferris Wheels & Funky Breath. They became closer as the season continued. In the Season 3 episode "Beach Clubs & BFF's", it's revealed that they met up before Ally joined Austin, Trish and Dez on tour and have a lot in common and become close friends.

Piper

Friend

They didn't interact until Proms & Promises. They were both excited about going to prom, along with everyone else. They were both talking about how they were wanting to go to prom with Austin and Gavin. They were seen hanging out together at the beach club, with Carrie and Trish. Ally showed slight jealously over Piper in Proms & Promises, showing she might not like her dating Austin, showing she still has feelings for Austin. It's unknown whether they will keep in touch with each other since its very unlikely that Piper will return as her last appearance was in Last Dances & Last Chances, and due to Ally now dating Austin.