Brittany Snow

Brittany Snow
Snow at the 2009 Heart Truth fashion show
Born	Brittany Anne Snow
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995 – present

Brittany Anne Snow (born March 9, 1986) is an American television and film actress. She is best known for her role in the TV series American Dreams. She has also appeared on Nip/Tuck and will star in the Gossip Girl spin-off Valley Girls.

Biography

Personal life

Brittany Snow was born and grew up in Tampa, Florida. She is the daughter of Cynthia, who works for Prentice Hall, and John Snow, Sr, who ran an insurance agency until retiring to organize Brittany's schedule. She has one half-brother, John Jr., and a half-sister; both of them live in Ohio. She attended Carrollwood Day School in Tampa, Florida, for her early education (kindergarten through second grade). She attended Claywell Elementary for the rest of elementary school. For middle school, she attended Ben Hill. Brittany is a 2004 graduate of Gaither High School in Tampa, Florida. She enjoys spending time with friends and family, often visiting her hometown of Tampa, Florida. Snow was raised Catholic.

Career

Snow began modeling at the age of three and a half in a print ad for Burdines. She had a popular role at age twelve as troubled teen Susan LeMay on the soap opera Guiding Light from 1998 to 2001. She is perhaps best known for playing Meg Pryor on NBC's American Dreams and neo-Nazi high school student Ariel Alderman on the third season of Nip/Tuck. In 2005, she appeared in The Pacifier with action star Vin Diesel.

In 2006, she was in the film John Tucker Must Die and voiced Naminé in the video game Kingdom Hearts II as well as Shizuku Tsukishima in the Studio Ghibli film "Whisper of the Heart."

She more recently appeared in Hairspray, a film adaptation of the Broadway musical, playing Amber Von Tussle alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, James Marsden, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, John Travolta, and Queen Latifah. She had already worked with the director of Hairspray(Adam Shankman) on the Disney film The Pacifier. With her role in Hairspray, her musical side is shown in numerous numbers, including a solo entitled "The New Girl In Town", a song previously cut from the Broadway musical version. She played the lead role in Prom Night, which was released in April 2008. Brittany appeared on the music video for "The Phrase That Pays" by The Academy Is... which was released July 2007.

She appears alongwith Adam Gregory in the Ashley Tisdale's music video for "It's Alright, It's OK". It has been reported that she is in final talks to appear as the young Lily van der Woodsen in the new Gossip Girl spinoff. Snow will star as the younger Lily in the series named Valley Girls premiering on May 11th.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998-2001	Guiding Light	Susan Lemay	TV series; 9 episodes
2002-2005	American Dreams	Meg Pryor	TV series; 61 episodes
2005	The Pacifier	Zoe Plummer
	Nip/Tuck	Ariel Alderman	TV series; 5 episodes
2006	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jamie Hoskins	TV series; episode: "Influence"
	John Tucker Must Die	Kate
2007	Hairspray	Amber Von Tussle
	On the Doll	Balery
2008	Prom Night	Donna Keppel
	Finding Amanda	Amanda Tangerman
	Streak	Baylin
2009	The Vicious Kind	Emma Gainsborough
	Gossip Girl	Lily Rhodes	TV series; episode: "Valley Girls"
	Black Water Transit	Sardoonah
2010	Hairspray 2	Amber Von Tussle	Announced

Discography

Soundtracks

• 2007: Hairspray Soundtrack - July 10, 2007

Awards

• Snow was nominated for and won a Hollywood Film Award for her role as Amber Von Tussle in 2007's Hairspray
• Nominated and won Best Musical Antagonist in 2008 Teen's Choice Awards
• Brittany Snow won the privilege of dating the honorable graduate of Mountain View High School, Tyler Adamson

External links

• Brittany Snow at IMDb
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