Brittney Elizabeth Irvin (born November 10, 1984) is a Canadian actress who has also done voiceover work for Ocean Productions. Irvin is best known for playing Katie in Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular and its sequel Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy. She was first billed as Britt Irvin in a 2001 episode of The Outer Limits, and is still sometimes billed as Brittney Irvin in recent work, such as her voice work as Jade in Bratz, and in two of the three episodes of Aliens in America in which she appeared in 2007. She also voiced Sunny Flare in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls.
Britt Irvin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Brittney Elizabeth Irvin November 10, 1984 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Children | 1[1] |
Early life
editBritt Irvin was born Brittney Elizabeth Irvin in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and raised in Surrey, British Columbia. She began dancing ballet and singing in festivals starting around 1990 when she was 6 years old. She worked on two musicals at age 10, Show Boat and A Christmas Carol, did voice work in the television series "Nilus the Sandman", and did work in several television commercials between productions, many of which aired in the United States as well as Canada.
Acting career
editIn 1996, Irvin appeared in the films Panic in the Skies! and The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue. In 1998, she appeared in the TV series Little Men on Canada's CTV network, which lasted two seasons. Between 1998 and 2000, Irvin also played guest roles on Sleepwalkers, Night Man, Stargate SG-1, and The Outer Limits. In 2000, she played Laurel Everett in the TV movie Angels in the Infield which also starred Patrick Warburton and David Alan Grier. Also in 2000, she played the role of Maxine Bronty in Quarantine.
In 2000, Irvin acted in So Weird. In 2002, Irvin played a red-wine-loving kleptomaniac named Amy in the MTV movie Wasted and played a role in The Outer Limits again in 2003, the same year she appeared in National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Family Reunion with Judge Reinhold and Penelope Ann Miller. Also, in 2003, she portrayed the late Dana Plato in the NBC TV movie Diff'rent Strokes: The Unauthorized Biography.
She played the single teenage mother Paige Leckie in the fourth season of Edgemont in 2004, but left the series after just one season in order to fulfill other commitments. Also in 2004 she played "Maggie" in the movie Jack.
Her works have included the 2005 film Reefer Madness which is based on the 2003 musical, (though she only appeared in one scene), the 2005 TV movie Absolute Zero with Jeff Fahey and Erika Eleniak, the 2007 film Hot Rod starring Andy Samberg, and playing the love interest of Kevin Zegers' character in Normal, which was also released in 2007.
She is named in the special thanks credits of Louis Belanger's 2009 film The Timekeeper, which premiered in Canada at the Vancouver International Film Festival and in the United States at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. She had appeared in a scene as a character named Nicole Granger, that was ultimately cut from the film.
Irvin is also an accomplished singer and voice-over artist. Her voice-over credits include TV series: Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Madeline, Bratz and in the English-language version of Inuyasha). She was also the voice of X-23 in the episode "Target X" fourth season of X-Men: Evolution (substituting Andrea Libman, who voiced the character in her original appearance); the character later crossed over to the X-Men comic titles where she once headlined her own limited series and is currently featured in the Avengers Academy title.
She was nominated for a Leo Award in 2008 for her performance in Normal.
Irvin also provided the voice of the character Ursula in the 2007 George of the Jungle cartoon series which aired on the Cartoon Network, making her the first (and currently only) person ever to voice a cartoon character in a series remake, where the character had originally been voiced by June Foray in the original. Foray had originally voiced the character Ursula in the original George of the Jungle series from the 1960s – though the character is significantly different in the 2007 series than in the 1967 series. The series aired for only one season.
Her work in 2008 included the voice of Polly, the love interest of Drake Bell's Harold Kelp in the direct-to-DVD animated sequel, The Nutty Professor.
She portrayed the character Amy in the TV movie Spectacular!, one of the first times she has ever played an antagonist, which aired on Nickelodeon on February 16, 2009. The series The Assistants, in which she plays the lead role Gillian Hughes, premiered on The N on July 10, 2009.[2]
She appeared in the first three episodes of ABC's remake of the 1980s science fiction miniseries V, which premiered on ABC on November 3, 2009, as well as the first episode of Life UneXpected, which premiered in February 2010 on The CW. Irvin portrayed Stargirl in the Smallville episodes "Absolute Justice", "Salvation", "Icarus" and "Prophecy".[3] Her most recent credit is as Kathy Patton in Freshman Father, a Hallmark Channel movie where she portrays a prom queen turned young mother suffering from severe post-partum depression. In 2010, she plays in Barbie: A Fashion Fairy Tale and Barbie: A Fairy Secret, as the voice of Raquelle.
In 2012, Irvin co-starred in Michael Sucsy's film The Vow, which starred Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, and also included her former Little Men and Angels in the Infield co-star Rachel Skarsten in the cast.
In 2015, she voiced Sunny Flare in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games and 2017 Equestria Girls special, Dance Magic.
Music
editIrvin released a demo music album in 2003. She has been known to give live performances in Vancouver and Los Angeles. Her music has never been mass-released, but some of the tracks have been found at sites like YouTube.[4]
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Madeline: Lost in Paris | Chloe | Voice role |
| 2003 | The Great Upstanding Member | Bonnie | Short film |
| 2005 | Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical | The Arc-ettes | |
| The Road That Binds Us | Anne | Short film | |
| 2007 | Hot Rod | Cathy | |
| Normal | Melissa | ||
| Bratz: Super Babyz | Jade | Voice role | |
| 2008 | Bratz: Girlz Really Rock | Jade | Voice role |
| Bratz Babyz Save Christmas | Jade | Voice role | |
| The Nutty Professor | Polly McGregor | Voice role | |
| 2010–2011 | Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale | Raquelle | Voice role |
| Barbie: A Fairy Secret | Raquelle | Voice role | |
| 2012 | Bratz: Desert Jewelz | Jade | Voice role |
| The Vow | Lina | Voice role | |
| Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2 | Ambassador Mirabella | Voice role | |
| 2013 | Lucille's Ball | Lucille | Voice role |
| 2014 | Feed the Gods | Emma | Voice role |
| Barbie and the Secret Door | Jenna | Voice role | |
| 2015 | Barbie in Princess Power | Corinne (Dark Sparkle) | Voice role |
| 2017 | The Wrong Babysitter | Kendra |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | The New Adventures of Madeline | Nicole | Voice role |
| 1996 | Panic in the Skies! | Joany Baker | |
| Nilus the Sandman | Amy | Episode: "About Face" | |
| The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue | Lilly Feagan | ||
| 1997 | The Outer Limits | Katrine Houghton | Episode: "New Lease" |
| 1998 | Sleepwalkers | Young Gail | Episode: "Passed Imperfect" |
| Night Man | Elizabeth | Episode: "Fear City" | |
| 1999 | You, Me, and the Kids | Emily's adoptive cousin | Episode: "Adoption" |
| Stargate SG-1 | Merrin | Episode: "Learning Curve" | |
| Little Men | Anthea Harding / Nan | 26 episodes | |
| 2000 | Angels in the Infield | Laurel Everett | TV movie |
| The Wednesday Woman | Mimi Davidson | TV movie | |
| Higher Ground | Jessica Merrick | 2 episodes | |
| Quarantine | Maxine Bronty | TV movie | |
| Personally Yours | Bridget Stanton | TV movie | |
| So Weird | Jennifer | Episode: "Rewind" | |
| InuYasha | Koharu | Voice role | |
| 2001 | Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | Shay | Episode: "The Witness" |
| Earth Maiden Arjuna | Cindy Klein | Voice role | |
| 2gether: The Series | Jill Linus | Episode: "Jillie" | |
| The SoulTaker | Runa Tokisaka | Voice role | |
| The Outer Limits | Judith Wilder | Episode: "Mindreacher" | |
| 2002 | Wasted | Amy | TV movie |
| Taken | Nina Toth | Episode: "Charlie and Lisa" | |
| 2003 | Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular | Katie | Voice role; TV movie |
| X-Men: Evolution | X-23 | Episode: "Target X" | |
| Thanksgiving Family Reunion | Twig Snider | TV movie | |
| Edgemont | Paige Leckie | 13 episodes | |
| Family Curse | Miranda Walker | TV movie | |
| 2004 | Jack | Maggie | TV movie |
| The Book of Ruth | Daisy | TV movie | |
| The Days | Zanni Colter | 4 episodes | |
| ToddWorld | Trina/Sheep #1 | ||
| 2005 | Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy | Katie | TV movie |
| Being Ian | Andrea | Episode: "Bad Day at White Rock" | |
| 2006 | Absolute Zero | AJ Carmichael | TV movie |
| Alice, I Think | Jane | 2 episodes | |
| Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes' | Dana Plato | TV movie | |
| Supernatural | First Teenage Girl | Episode: "Hell House" | |
| 2007 | Write and Wrong | Stacy Herskowitz | TV movie |
| George of the Jungle | Ursula | Main voice role | |
| 2007–2008 | Aliens in America | Becky | 4 episodes |
| 2009 | Spectacular! | Amy | TV movie |
| The Assistants | Gillian Hughes | Main role | |
| V | Haley Starks | 3 episodes | |
| 2010 | Life Unexpected | Tracy | Episode: "Pilot" |
| Freshman Father | Kathy Patton | TV movie | |
| R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour | Temporary guardian | Episodes "Really You: Part 1" and "Really You: Part 2" | |
| 2010–2011 | Smallville | Courtney Whitmore / Stargirl | 4 episodes |
| 2012 | Beauty and the Beast | Lila | Episode: "Pilot" |
| Smart Cookies | Paige | TV movie | |
| 2012–2018 | My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | Lightning Dust | Voice role; episodes: "Wonderbolts Academy", "The Washouts" |
| 2013 | The Nearlyweds | Stella | TV movie |
| The Trainer | Tina Wallace | TV movie | |
| Garage Sale Mystery | Celeste | TV movie | |
| Packages from Planet X | Amanda | Main role | |
| Supernatural | Muriel | Episode: "Holy Terror" | |
| 2014 | Mr. Miracle | Addie Folsom | TV movie |
| 2015 | My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games | Sunny Flare | Voice role; TV movie |
| IZombie | Kaley Taylor | Episode: "Dead Air" | |
| 2016–2018 | Chesapeake Shores | Danielle Clayman | 22 episodes |
| 2017 | My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Magical Movie Night | Sunny Flare | Voice role; episode: "Dance Magic" |
| 2018 | Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery | Cara Embler | TV movie |
| 2021 | Cupids on Beacon Street | Eve | TV movie |
| 2022 | Under the Banner of Heaven | Sarah Lafferty | 6 episodes |
| 2024 | Family Law | Michelle Fischer | Episode: "A River in Egypt" |
Music videos
edit- FRANKIIE: "Dream Reader" (2019)
References
edit- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Archived from the original on 2023-07-15. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
- ^ "TeenNick". Archived from the original on 2009-07-14. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ^ Smallville Archived February 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine The CW
- ^ "- YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2016-12-01.
External links
edit- Britt Irvin at IMDb