Brittany Allen facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Brittany Allen
Allen in 2013
Born	(1986-02-05) February 5, 1986 (age 39) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress, producer, composer
Years active	1999–present
Awards	Daytime Emmy Award 2011 Outstanding Younger Actress

Brittany Allen (born February 5, 1986) is a talented Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in TV shows and movies. One of her first big roles was playing Marissa Chandler on the TV show All My Children from 2009 to 2010. For this role, she won a special award called a Daytime Emmy Award in 2011.

Brittany has also worked a lot in movies, especially with director Colin Minihan. Some of their movies together include Extraterrestrial (2014), It Stains the Sands Red (2016), and What Keeps You Alive (2018). For What Keeps You Alive, Brittany not only starred in the film but also helped create its music.

Education and Early Life

Brittany Allen grew up in Canada. She went to the Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto, Ontario. This school is known for helping young artists develop their talents. After that, she studied at the Sheridan Institute for Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Ontario. There, she joined their famous Music Theatre – Performance Program, where she learned about acting and music.

Brittany's Acting Career

Brittany Allen started her career with smaller parts in TV movies. Her big break came when she joined the cast of All My Children. She played Marissa Chandler from April 2009 to December 2010. Her performance was so good that she won a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Younger Actress" in 2011. This award is a big deal in the world of daytime TV!

After All My Children, Brittany appeared in many other TV series. She had repeating roles in the Canadian show Bomb Girls and the American sci-fi western Defiance.

Movies and Collaborations

In 2014, Brittany took on a main role in the sci-fi horror movie Extraterrestrial. This movie was directed by Colin Minihan. Brittany and Colin began working together often after this film.

In 2015, Brittany starred in a psychological thriller called Backgammon. She also helped write the story for an independent comedy-drama movie called Almost Anything.

In 2016, she worked with Colin Minihan again on a unique zombie movie called It Stains the Sands Red. In this film, Brittany was an executive producer (meaning she helped make the movie happen behind the scenes) and played the main character, a woman being chased by a single zombie in the desert.

Brittany continued to appear in different types of movies. In 2017, she was in the sci-fi drama Incontrol. She also had a role in the scary movie Jigsaw, which is part of the famous Saw film series.

In 2018, she joined the TV show Falling Water for its second season. She also played Ella Riordan in the second season of NBC's "Taken". That same year, she starred with her Jigsaw co-star Hannah Emily Anderson in the thriller What Keeps You Alive. Brittany also produced and composed music for this movie, marking her third time working with director Colin Minihan.

More recently, in 2019, Brittany appeared in the horror film The Prodigy. She also played Charlotte, known as Popclaw, in the superhero TV series The Boys on Amazon.

Awards and Recognition

Brittany Allen won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 2011. She received this award for her role as Marissa Tasker on the TV show All My Children. This award recognized her excellent acting skills early in her career.

Filmography

Film

Television

See also

In Spanish: Brittany Allen para niños