Before Mendler’s role as the spirited teen Teddy Duncan on Good Luck Charlie concluded in 2014 after four seasons, she was also chasing her dream of becoming a pop star, releasing her debut album Hello My Name Is… in 2012. While continuing her music and acting career, she began studying anthropology at USC, although she left the program in 2016.
“I didn’t really understand how it worked,” she shared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2015, discussing how she chose her major. “I put down, like, five different things that I would potentially want to be in as a major, and I got my acceptance letter, and it’s like, ‘You’re in anthropology!’”
However, she later earned her master’s degree in humanity and technology from MIT and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2024.
Mendler is currently the co-founder and CEO of Northwood Space, based in El Segundo, California, which focuses on the mass production of antennas that communicate with space satellites.
On a personal note, she married Griffin Cleverly in 2019, and they welcomed a son toward the end of 2022.
