Emily Perkins

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Emily Perkins

Emily Perkins, 2010
Born Emily Jean Perkins
May 4, 1977 (1977-05-04) (age 34)[1]
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada[1]
Occupation Actress
Years active 1989–present
Website
http://www.emilyperkins.com/

Emily Jean Perkins (born May 4, 1977)[1] is a Canadian actress, known best for her co-starring role as Brigitte Fitzgerald in the Ginger Snaps franchise 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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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]

Since March 1, 2010, Perkins has played the regular role of Crystal Braywood in the Canadian TV comedy series Hiccups.[6]

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