Brittany Furlan

{{short description|American Internet personality (born 1986)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Brittany Furlan

| image = Brittany Furlan by Gage Skidmore.jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Furlan in 2017

| birth_name = Brittany Jayne Furlan{{cite web|title=IMDb|website = IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3571490/bio?ref_=nm_ql_1}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|09|05|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Perkasie, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|Internet personality|actress|comedian}}

| known_for = Vine

| alias = Brittany Furlan Lee

| spouse = {{marriage|Tommy Lee|February 14, 2019}}

}}

Brittany Jayne Furlan Lee (née Furlan; born September 5, 1986) is an American internet personality, actress and comedian based in Los Angeles. She was the most followed female video star on Vine until November 2015.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} She was the fifth-most-followed viner, with 9.9 million followers when Vine ended, and the second-most-followed woman.

She was declared by Time in 2015 to be one of the most influential people on the Internet.{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/3732203/the-30-most-influential-people-on-the-internet/ |title=The 30 Most Influential People on the Internet |magazine=Time |date=March 5, 2015 |access-date=March 5, 2015 }}

Career

Furlan was born on September 5, 1986, in Perkasie, Pennsylvania to Italian-American parents. She previously tried to break into television before becoming a star on Vine,{{cite news |url=http://www.thewrap.com/vine-star-brittany-furlan-business-of-marketing/ |title=How Vine's Biggest Female Star Brittany Furlan Is Building a Career – One 6-Second Video at a Time |work=The Wrap |date=March 27, 2014 |access-date=March 5, 2015 |archive-date=March 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310031053/http://www.thewrap.com/vine-star-brittany-furlan-business-of-marketing/ |url-status=dead }} and signed with content network Endemol.{{cite journal |url=https://variety.com/2014/biz/news/vine-star-brittany-furlan-signs-with-endemol-network-1201162066/ |title=Vine Star Brittany Furlan Signs With Endemol Network ... |journal=Variety |date=April 23, 2014 |access-date=March 5, 2015 }}

Furlan was embroiled in a controversy during the 2014 Daytime Emmys Red Carpet show when she told actor Ryan Paevey, "We're going to get you away from us before we rape you."{{cite news |last=Rivera |first=Zayda |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/daytime-emmys-red-carpet-hosts-deemed-appalling-rape-joke-article-1.1840338 |title=Daytime Emmys red carpet hosts deemed 'appalling' for rape joke |work=New York Daily News |date=June 23, 2014 |access-date=August 12, 2017 }}

Personal life

Since early 2017, Furlan has been in a relationship with Mötley Crüe drummer, Tommy Lee.{{cite web |title=Tommy Lee and Brittany Furlan: A Timeline of Their Relationship |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/tommy-lee-and-brittany-furlan-a-timeline-of-their-relationship/ |website=www.usmagazine.com|date=August 25, 2023 }}{{cite web |title=Tommy Lee's Wife, Brittany Furlan: Everything to Know |url=https://www.etonline.com/tommy-lees-wife-brittany-furlan-everything-to-know-198524 |website=www.etonline.com}}

On February 14, 2018, they announced their engagement on Instagram.{{Cite news|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/913811/tommy-lee-is-engaged-to-vine-star-brittany-furlan|title=Tommy Lee Is Engaged to Vine Star Brittany Furlan|work=E! Online|access-date=February 23, 2018|language=en-US}} They were married a year later on February 14, 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/music/tommy-lee-brittany-furlan-married/|title=Tommy Lee Marries Social Media Star Brittany Furlan: 'We Did It!'|website=PEOPLE.com|language=en|access-date=February 15, 2019}}

She does not have children and does not plan to.{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/music/who-is-brittany-furlan-tommy-lee-wife/|title=Who Is Tommy Lee's Wife? All About Brittany Furlan|website=PEOPLE.com|language=en|access-date=January 16, 2024}}

Filmography

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Year

!Title

!Role

!class=unsortable | Notes

2015

|We Are Your Friends

|Sara

|Film

2015

|Wrestling Isn't Wrestling

|Goldberg

|Short film

2018

|The Unicorn

|Samantha

|Film

2018

|The American Meme

|Herself

|Documentary

2019

| The Dirt

| Bandmate Girlfriend

| Film

2019

| E! True Hollywood Story

| Herself

| Episode: "Is Fame an Addiction?"

2020

| Spy Intervention

| Brianna Brown

| Film

2021–present

| Paradise City

| Janis

| TV spinoff of American Satan

2022

|Good Mourning

|Waitress

|

Awards and nominations

class="wikitable"
Year

!Nominated

!Award

!Result

2015

| Teen Choice Awards

| Choice Web: Viner

| {{Nominated}}

References

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