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Brittany Snow
Snow at the 2009 Heart Truth fashion show
Born	Brittany Anne Snow March 9, 1986 (1986-03-09) (age 23) Tampa, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1995–present

Brittany Anne Snow (born March 9, 1986) is an American television and film actress.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Filmography 4 Discography 4.1 Soundtracks 5 Awards 6 References 7 External links

Personal life

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 agency¹² until retiring to organize Brittany's schedule. She has one half-brother, John Jr., and a half-sister Holly; 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. Snow is a 2004 graduate of Gaither High School in Tampa, Florida. She is currently dating actor Ryan Rottman.

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, Allison Janney 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.

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. The series was not picked up as a full season.³ Snow stars as the younger Lily in the Gossip Girl 24th Episode for its 2nd Season entitled Valley Girls premiered on May 11th.

Snow is currently scheduled to play the lead, Alyssa, in the upcoming film adaptation of Clock Tower, which is due out in 2010.⁴

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998-2001	Guiding Light	Susan Lemay	TV series
2002-2005	American Dreams	Meg Pryor	TV series; 61 episodes
2005	The Pacifier	Zoe Plummer	Main role
	Nip/Tuck	Ariel Alderman	TV series; 5 episodes
	Kingdom Hearts II	Naminé	Video game; voice
2006	Whisper of the Heart	Shizuku Tsukishima	Anime; voice (English-language version)
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jamie Hoskins	TV series; episode: "Influence"
	John Tucker Must Die	Kate Spencer	Main role
2007	Hairspray	Amber Von Tussle
	On the Doll	Balery
2008	Prom Night	Donna Keppel	Main Role
	Finding Amanda	Amanda Tangerman	Main Role
2009	The Vicious Kind	Emma Gainsborough	Main role
	Black Water Transit	Sardoonah	Main role
	Gossip Girl	Young Lily Rhodes	TV series; episode: "Valley Girls"
	Family Guy	Candy	Voice; episode: "Quagmire's Baby"
2010	Hairspray 2	Amber Von Tussle
	Clock Tower	Alyssa

Music videos
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Phrase That Pays	Nurse	The Academy Is... video
2008	Otep The Acention		Crooked Spoons video
	Ride EP	Girlfriend	Cary Brothers video
	Just Impolite	Girlfriend	Plushgun video

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 for and won Best Musical Antagonist in 2008 Teen's Choice Awards.

References

External links

• Brittany Snow at the Internet Movie Database
• Brittany Snow at TV.com