Emily Perkins

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Emily Perkins
Emily Perkins.jpg
Emily Perkins, 2009
Born Emily Jean Perkins
(1977-05-04) May 4, 1977 (age 36)[1]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada[1]
Occupation Actress
Years active 1989–present
Website
www.emilyperkins.com

Emily Jean Perkins (born May 4, 1977)[1] is a Canadian actress, known best for her role as Brigitte Fitzgerald in the Ginger Snaps trilogy and her role as Crystal Braywood in Hiccups. Since the late 1980s she has appeared in various films and television series.

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Life and career [edit]

Perkins was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] As a child actress she was in three made for television movies: Small Sacrifices (1989), opposite Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, Anything to Survive (1990), and Stephen King's It (1990), with Jonathan Brandis and Seth Green.

In 1998, Perkins took a supporting role in the Canadian TV crime-drama series Da Vinci's Inquest as Carmen (series 1, episode 9). She returned to the series in 2001 to take a recurring, supporting role as the prostitute Sue Lewis for a further 34 episodes, a role which earned her a Leo Award for Best Supporting Performance in 2003.[2]

Perkins is best known for her role as Brigitte in the Ginger Snaps Trilogy of werewolf films: Ginger Snaps (2000), Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed (2004), and Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004). Her role in Ginger Snaps gained her Best Actress award at the Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema in 2001.[3] Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed is Perkins' largest role in a film. In 2004 the horror magazine Fangoria awarded Perkins their Chainsaw Award for her work in GS2: Unleashed.[4]

Perkins had supporting roles in She's the Man, Another Cinderella Story, and a small role as a receptionist in Juno. She stars in the thriller Blood: A Butcher's Tale.[5]

In 2008 she appeared as "superfan" Becky Rosen in the CW TV series Supernatural.[6]

Starting March 1, 2010 Perkins played the regular role of Crystal Braywood in the Canadian TV comedy series Hiccups.[7] After two seasons the show was cancelled.[8]

Filmography [edit]

Film
Year Title Notes
1989 Small Sacrifices
1989 Little Golden Book Land
1990 Anything to Survive
1990 It
1993 Miracle on I-880
1993 Woman on the Ledge
1994 Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges
1996 In Cold Blood
1996 Past Perfect
2000 Ginger Snaps
2000 Christy: Return to Cutter Gap
2001 Christy: A Change of Seasons
2001 Christy: A New Beginning
2001 Prozac Nation
2004 Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed
2004 Ginger Snaps Back
2006 She's the Man
2007 Juno
2008 Another Cinderella Story
2010 Blood: A Butcher's Tale
2011 Repeaters

Television [edit]

Television
Year Title Notes
1989 Danger Bay
1990 Mom P.I.
1993 The Odyssey
1998 The X-Files
1998 Da Vinci's Inquest
2001-2005 Da Vinci's Inquest
2002 Twlight Zone
2003 Mentors
2004 Dead Like Me
2007 Aliens in America
2009 Supernatural
2010 Hiccups
2011 Supernatural

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