That ‘90s Show’s Callie Haverda: 5 Things to Know About the Actress Who Plays Eric Forman and Donna Pinciotti’s Daughter Leia

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Not the same old thing she did last week! Callie Haverda is headed to Point Place to star in the new Netflix spinoff series That ‘90s Show — as Eric Forman and Donna Pinciotti’s teenage daughter, Leia.“HELLO WISCONSIN!” Haverda captioned an Instagram post in February 2022 following news she had been cast in the That ‘70s Show spinoff. “I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am!!!!!”In October 2021, 15 years after the original FOX sitcom went off the air, Netflix announced that it had a new generation of young Wisconsinites to dwell in Kitty (Debra Jo Rupp) and Red Forman’s (Kurtwood Smith) basement.The comedy, which is set in 1995, follows Haverda as Leia Forman, daughter of Eric Forman (Topher Grace) and Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon) as she visits her grandparents for the summer and bonds with a new generation of Point Place kids.

In addition to Grace, Prepon, Rupp and Smith, That ’90s Show will also see the return of the OG gang Kelso (Ashton Kutcher), Jackie (Mila Kunis) and Fez (Wilmer Valderrama).While Haverda didn’t initially know of the original series when she auditioned for the role, her siblings filled her in on its iconic place in TV history and she quickly became a fan. “I had never seen That ‘70s Show myself, but all of my siblings had seen it and they were pretty big fans of it.

So they were like, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re totally like Eric and Donna’s daughter, you’d be perfect for this.’ And then when I read the role myself, I was like,  ‘It feels like I’m just reading about myself,'” she told ATX Today in January 2023, adding that she booked the role after watching “a few clips” of the show and sending in a self tape.The spinoff, which debuted on January 19, 2023, wrapped filming earlier this summer.“And