London Vale

London Vale (born February 3) is an American actress and internet personality competing in the 2012 Miss California USA pageant.
Early life & family
London was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her parents owned and operated Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest Apple Orchard, a 250-acre, 30,000-tree apple orchard near Jordan, Minnesota. Vale and her sister, Austin inherited the business in 2006.
Career & education
In 1991, at the age of four, London Vale made her first national appearance in a commercial for Chinet Paper Plates. This launched her into a successful commercial career at an early age, appearing in national campaigns for Target, McDonald's, Marshal Field's, The Company Store, Pizza Hut, and Timex. She was also the face of a nation-wide advertisement for "Feed the Starving Children." She made her television debut at 8 years-old on a Fox television series, VR.5. Later that year, she was cast in the Warner Brothers production of A Little Princess directed by 'Alfonso Cuarón. She has been a member of AFTRA since 1991 and SAG since 1994. As an undergraduate, Vale thrived in the Film, Television and Theatre department at the University of Notre Dame and in the Notre Dame London Program where Vale was cast as Viola in William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. In 2008, Ms. Vale earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in the FIlm, Television, & Theatre Program with a double major in Art Studio concentrating on Oil Painting at the University of Notre Dame. In 2010, she appeared as "Evan Hawkins" in pilot, The Gunrunner Billy Kane. The next year she was selected by Miss California USA as a contestant for 2012.
 
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