AnnaSophia Robb Lands ‘The Carrie Diaries’ Lead

“Soul Surfer” star AnnaSophia Robb will play a young Carrie Bradshaw in the CW’s “Sex and the City” prequel

The CW has found its Carrie Bradshaw.

AnnaSophia Robb, the star of last year's big-screen offering "Soul Surfer," has landed the lead role of a young Carrie Bradshaw in the CW pilot "The Carrie Diaries," the network confirmed to TheWrap.

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Based on the Candace Bushnell novel of the same name, "The Carrie Diaries" will pick up in the years before "Sex and the City," with Robb playing a young Bradshaw who "comes of age in the 1980s, asking her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan."

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