Azura Skye

Azura Skye
Born	Azura Dawn Storozynski November 8, 1981 (1981-11-08) Northridge, Los Angeles, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1985–present

Azura Skye (born November 8, 1981) is an American actress who first gained recognition for her role as Jane on The WB television sitcom, Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane. She also had a brief but memorable appearance (2 episodes) as Cassie Newton in the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Life and career

Early life and family

Skye was born Azura Dawn Storozynski in her grandmother's home in Northridge, California. Her parents being amateur gemologists, named her after azurite, a semi-precious mineral. Azure is a color often associated with the sky; thus the stage name "Azura Skye." Being from a show business family, she started her career as a stage actress at the age of three and toured Europe with the Santa Monica Playhouse theatre group at the age of eleven. She received her education at the Brentwood School.

Her grandfather, Brad Johnson, who died before her birth, was an actor known for his role as deputy sheriff Lofty Craig in the Western series, Annie Oakley (1954–1957), as well as a real estate developer in Los Angeles.

Movie and television career

Skye made her first television appearance on the show Total Security in 1997. Then she played a couple of smaller parts on Touched by an Angel and Chicago Hope, and made appearances in a number of television movies before she was cast for the role as "Jane" in Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane in 1999. Zoe..., as the show was renamed for the second season, was a short-lived (two seasons) sitcom about four teenagers - Skye's character being one of them. In 2000, the same year that Zoe... ended, Skye's first major movie production premiered. In 28 Days, she starred alongside Sandra Bullock and Viggo Mortensen.

Two years later, in 2002, Skye appeared in two episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the episode "Help" she plays Cassie Newton, a teen girl at Sunnydale High who possesses the power of precognition and who foresees her own death, and whom Buffy tries to help. In the episode "Conversations with Dead People", she plays an incarnation of the First Evil, impersonating a ghost of Cassie, who attempts to persuade Willow to commit suicide by pretending to bring a message from her dead girlfriend Tara.

Also in 2002, she appeared in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister alongside Matthew Goode and Stockard Channing.

During this time she also appeared in other projects, doing smaller parts. She has played Susie Keaton in four episodes of CSI: Miami and has made guest appearances in shows such as Smallville and Judging Amy. Skye has also played parts in movies like Bandits (with Bruce Willis and Cate Blanchett), The Salton Sea (with Val Kilmer) and Red Dragon (with Anthony Hopkins).

Skye appeared as Ruby Bates in the 2006 drama Heavens Fall. In 2007, she starred as Sara in 20 Years After and in What We Do Is Secret. In 2008, she had a major part in the American remake of the Japanese movie One Missed Call, which was released in the US on January 4, 2008.

Her most recent television appearances includes the voice of Veronica in an episode of American Dad, fall 2007 episodes of House, Bones and Ghost Whisperer, a 2009 episode of The Mentalist, and the second episode of American Horror Story.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role
1997	Alone	Jocelyn
1998	Cab to Canada	Jet
1999	EDtv	Interview teenager
	Dementia	Veronica
2000	28 Days	Andrea
2001	Buck Naked Arson	Janey
	Town & Country	Spider
	Bandits	Cheri
2002	The Salton Sea	Teresa
	Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister	Iris Fisher
	Red Dragon	Bookseller
2003	Carolina	Georgia Mirabeau
2005	Thanks to Gravity	Nina
	The Wendell Baker Story	May
	Sexual Life	Lorna
	Laying Down Arms	Janet
2006	Wristcutters: A Love Story	Tania
	Heaven's Fall	Ruby Bates
2007	What We Do Is Secret	Casey Cola
2008	One Missed Call	Leann Cole
	20 Years After	Sara
2009	Two Other Dreams	Galen

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Total Security		Episode: "A Man for Half a Season"
	Touched By an Angel	China	Episode: "Children of the Night"
	Chicago Hope	Cashier	Episode: "Brain Salad Surgery"
1999–2000	Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane	Jane	24 episodes
2000	Batman Beyond	Deanna Clay	Episode: "Inqueling"
2001	Gideon's Crossing	Haley	Episode: "The Crash"
	John Doe	Karen	Episode: "Unaired Pilot"
2002	Smallville	Amy Palmer	Episode: "Shimmer"
	Judging Amy	Rhonda Petty	Episode: "Lost in the System"
	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Cassie Newton	Episode: "Help" Episode: "Conversations With Dead People"
2003	The Handler	Amber	Episode: "Homewrecker's Ball"
2003–2005	CSI: Miami	Susie Barnam Keaton	4 episodes
2005	Missing	Marissa	Episode: "Have You Seen This Man? "
2006	The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman	Skyler	9 episodes
	American Dad!	Veronica	Episode: "The American Dad After School Special"
2007	House M.D.	Irene	Episode: "Guardian Angels"
	Bones	Amber Kippler	Episode: "Mummy in the Maze"
	Ghost Whisperer	Sophie Owens	Episode: "Double Exposure"
2009	The Mentalist	Tamzin Dove	Episode: "Red Rum"
	Hawthorne	Mary Barth	Episode: "Yielding"
2010	Cold Case	Claire Shepard	Episode: "Bullet"
2011	American Horror Story	Fiona	Episode: "Home Invasion"

External links

• Azura Skye at the Internet Movie Database