[2] Her father, Steve Chando, has his own commercial roofing company in Bethlehem called CHM Contracting, and her mother, Rebecca, is a homemaker.
[6][7] Chando originated the role of Maddie Coleman on the television soap opera As the World Turns, which she played from 2005[7] to 2007 and again for several months beginning in late 2009 and ended in early 2010.
Her experience of being cast on As the World Turns was chronicled in the episode "I'm Getting My Big Break" from the MTV documentary series, True Life.
Later, Chando was cast as identical twins Emma Becker and Sutton Mercer in the ABC Family series The Lying Game,[2][12] which ran for two seasons until it was cancelled by the network.
[13] After The Lying Game ended, she appeared on an episode of the television series Castle, playing "a Lindsay Lohan/Miley Cyrus type".