Brittany Underwood
{{Short description|American actress}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2015}}
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| name = Brittany Underwood
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1988|7|6}}
| birth_place = Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, U.S.
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 2005–present
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Brittany Underwood (born July 6, 1988) is an American actress, director, and singer. She is known for her roles as teenagers Langston Wilde on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live and Loren Tate on the Nick at Nite/TeenNick serial drama Hollywood Heights.
Early life
Brittany Underwood was born on July 6, 1988{{cite journal |journal=Soap Opera Digest |title=Brittany Underwood |date=July 16, 2012 |page=43}}{{cite web |title=Brittany Underwood |url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/brittany-underwood-57796761/ |access-date=May 28, 2016 |website=Hollywood.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160103073509/http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/brittany-underwood-57796761/ |archive-date=January 3, 2016 }} in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.{{cite web|url=http://www.soapteens.com/Brittany.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317090917/http://www.soapteens.com/Brittany.html|title=Brittany Underwood|archive-date=March 17, 2012|work=soapteens.com|access-date=February 25, 2015}} Her mother is Colombian and her father is American of English descent. She has an older sister named Brigitte. Underwood speaks fluent Spanish and is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. She attended Mountain Lakes High School.Lutz, Jaime. [https://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/2012/07/from_mountain_lakes_to_nickelo.html "From Mountain Lakes to Nickelodeon, Brittany Underwood doesn't sleep"], The Star-Ledger, July 5, 2012, updated March 20, 2019. Accessed August 27, 2020. "She started acting professionally while she was still a student at Mountain Lakes High School, getting a steady, if slight, stream of work: a guest-star role on Law and Order, a featured part in Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret, various commercials."
In an interview with SOAPnet in 2010, Underwood said she was currently attending Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. At the college, she researched neuroscience, and such diseases as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgVWx76vFvs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/lgVWx76vFvs |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|title=Fifteen Seconds With Brittany Underwood|date=March 8, 2010|work=YouTube|access-date=February 25, 2015}}{{cbignore}}
Career
Underwood's first television role was in a 2005 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She later auditioned for the title role in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, but the role went to Miley Cyrus.{{cite web |last=Leal |first=Samantha |date=July 11, 2012 |title=Introducing Hollywood Heights Actress Brittany Underwood |url=http://www.latina.com/entertainment/tv/introducing-hollywood-heights-actress-brittany-underwood |access-date=December 11, 2013 |work=Latina|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127212038/http://www.latina.com/entertainment/tv/introducing-hollywood-heights-actress-brittany-underwood |archive-date=January 27, 2020 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.buddytv.com/info/brittany-underwood-info.aspx|title=Brittany Underwood Biography|work=buddytv.com|access-date=February 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225172811/http://www.buddytv.com/info/brittany-underwood-info.aspx|archive-date=February 25, 2015|url-status=dead}}
Underwood portrayed Langston Wilde on the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 2006 to 2012, a role she originated. In 2012 she starred as Loren Tate on the Nick at Nite/TeenNick serial drama Hollywood Heights. She performed several songs on both series.
Underwood officially began a singing career in 2012. On December 18, 2012, Underwood released a single called "Flow".{{cite web|title=Brittany Underwood - Flow|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/flow-single/id584925730|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130817003745/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/flow-single/id584925730|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 17, 2013|publisher=Apple|access-date=December 19, 2012}} It and more songs like "Pull Me in Again", "Black Widow", "California Wild", "Love Me Now or Let Me Go", "Shine" and "High Heels High Hopes" all are on her EP in iTunes and YouTube. In 2015, she released a single titled "Not Yet".{{cite web|title=Brittany Underwood - Not Yet|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/not-yet-single/id997572152|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002040117/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/not-yet-single/id997572152|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 2, 2016|publisher=Apple|access-date=May 21, 2015}}
In 2014 Underwood played the lead in the television film Death Clique.{{cite web |last=Arreola |first=Cristina |date=April 12, 2014 |title=EXCLUSIVE: Brittany Underwood Talks 'Death Clique' & Being Latina In Hollywood |url=http://www.latina.com/movies/brittany-underwood-interview-death-clique |access-date=July 8, 2016 |work=Latina|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929014626/http://www.latina.com/movies/brittany-underwood-interview-death-clique |archive-date=September 29, 2015 }}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2010
| Mariela | Mariela | Video |
| 2011
| Margaret | Leslie | |
| 2012
| Willow Palin | TV movie |
| 2014
| Death Clique | Jade Thompson | TV movie |
| 2015
| Merry Kissmas | Kim | TV movie |
| rowspan=3| 2016
| Hidden Truth | Natalie | TV movie |
| The Dark Tapes
| Amanda Courtney | |
| Backstabbed
| Shelby Wilson | TV movie |
| rowspan=6| 2017
| Love on the Vines | Amelia | TV movie |
| It Happened One Valentine's
| Carson Pete | |
| Meat Cute
| Jamie | Short |
| Deadly Vows
| Helena | TV movie |
| The Bachelor Next Door
| Sage | TV movie |
| L.A. Player
| Jocelyn | Short |
| 2018
| Babysitter's Nightmare | Daphne Hart | TV movie |
| 2019
| 2nd Chance for Christmas | Chance Love | TV movie |
| rowspan=2| 2020
| Off the Grid | Sandra | TV movie |
| Dying for A Daughter
| Margaret | TV movie |
| rowspan=5| 2021
| A Deadly Bridenapping | Leah | TV movie |
| Hollywood.Con
| Jocelyn Reynolds | |
| Assault on va-33
| Vee | |
| The Killer in My Backyard
| Allyson | TV movie |
| Gunther
| Brittany | Short |
| rowspan=3| 2022
| The Final Rose | Nicki | |
| Mother's Deadly Son
| Tara | TV movie |
| A Prince and Pauper Christmas
| Sydney | TV movie |
| rowspan=3| 2023
| Love's Playlist | Turnley | TV movie |
| 12 Dares of Christmas
| Elara | TV movie |
| A Royal Christmas Holiday
| Katie | TV movie |
=Television roles=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 2002–12
| Regular Cast |
| 2005
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Kelly Brown | Episode "Demons" |
| 2010–20
| The Bay | Riley Henderson | Main Cast: Season 1-4, Recurring Cast: Season 5-6 |
| 2011
| Greta | Episode: "The Little c" |
| 2012
| Loren Tate | Main Cast |
| rowspan=2| 2014
| Sydney | Episode: "Do Not Disturb" |
| The Goldbergs
| Jill Rubin | Episode: “Shall We Play a Game?” |
| 2014–15
| Sheila Edmundson | Main Cast: Season 3, Recurring Cast: Season 4 |
| 2015
| TMI Hollywood | Various | Episode: "Scheana Shay Rules" |
Discography
- Brittany Underwood (2013)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2041708}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120708023031/http://www.buddytv.com/info/brittany-underwood-info.aspx Brittany Underwood] at buddytv.com
- [https://www.twitter.com/britt_underwood Brittany Underwood] at Twitter
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Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:American soap opera actresses
Category:American child actresses
Category:Hispanic and Latino American actresses
Category:Actresses from Newark, New Jersey
Category:American female taekwondo practitioners
Category:American people of Colombian descent
Category:Mountain Lakes High School alumni
Category:People from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey