Azura Skye

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Azura Skye
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Skye in 2020 on AMFM Studios
Born
OccupationActress
Years active1985–present
Relatives Brad Johnson (maternal grandfather)

Azura Skye is an American actress who first gained recognition for her role as Jane on The WB television sitcom Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane . She also had a 2-episode role as Cassie Newton in the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer .

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Early life

Being from a show business family, she started her career as a stage actress at the age of three and toured Europe with the Santa Monica Playhouse theatre group at the age of eleven. She received her education at the Brentwood School. [1] Her grandfather, Brad Johnson, who died before her birth, was an actor known for his role as deputy sheriff Lofty Craig in the Western series, Annie Oakley (1954–1957), as well as a real estate developer in Los Angeles. [2]

Career

Skye made her first television appearance on the show Total Security in 1997. Then she played a couple of smaller parts on Touched by an Angel and Chicago Hope , and made appearances in a number of television movies before she was cast for the role as "Jane" in Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane in 1999. Zoe..., as the show was renamed for the second season, was a short-lived (two seasons) sitcom about four teenagers – Skye's character being one of them. In 2000, the same year that Zoe... ended, Skye's first major movie production premiered. In 28 Days , she starred alongside Sandra Bullock and Viggo Mortensen.

Two years later, in 2002, Skye appeared in two episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . In the episode "Help" she plays Cassie Newton, a teen girl at Sunnydale High who possesses the power of precognition and who foresees her own death, and whom Buffy tries to help. In the episode "Conversations with Dead People", she plays an incarnation of the First Evil, impersonating a ghost of Cassie, who attempts to persuade Willow to commit suicide by pretending to bring a message from her dead girlfriend Tara.

Also in 2002, she appeared in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister alongside Matthew Goode and Stockard Channing.

During this time she also appeared in other projects, doing smaller parts. She has played Susie Keaton in four episodes of CSI: Miami and has made guest appearances in shows such as Smallville and Judging Amy . Skye has also played parts in movies like Bandits (with Bruce Willis and Cate Blanchett), The Salton Sea (with Val Kilmer) and Red Dragon (with Anthony Hopkins).

Skye appeared as Ruby Bates in the 2006 drama Heavens Fall . In 2007, she starred as Sara in 20 Years After and Casey Cola in What We Do Is Secret . In 2008, she had a major part in the American remake of the Japanese horror movie One Missed Call , which was released in the US on January 4, 2008.

Her most recent television appearances include the voice of Veronica in an episode of American Dad! , fall 2007 episodes of House M.D. , Bones and Ghost Whisperer , a 2009 episode of The Mentalist , and Fiona in American Horror Story: Murder House .

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1999 EDtv Interview Teenager
1999DementiaVeronica
2000 28 Days Andrea
2001Buck Naked ArsonJaney
2001 Town & Country Spider
2001 Bandits Cheri
2002 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Iris
2002 The Salton Sea Teresa
2002 Red Dragon Bookseller
2003 Carolina Georgia Mirabeau
2005 The Wendell Baker Story May
2005 Sexual Life Lorna
2005Why Don't You Dance?Short film
2005Laying Down ArmsJanetShort film
2006 Wristcutters: A Love Story Tania
2006Love and DebateNina
2006 Heavens Fall Ruby Bates
2007 What We Do Is Secret Casey Cola
2007God's BeachLydiaShort film
2008 One Missed Call Leann Cole
2008 20 Years After Sarah
2009Two Other DreamsGalenShort film
2012 Least Among Saints May
2015 Take Me to the River Ruth
2018Alien CodeBeth
2020The SwerveHolly
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1997Total SecurityEpisode: "A Man for Half a Season"
1997 Touched by an Angel ChinaEpisode: "Children of the Night"
1997 Chicago Hope CashierEpisode: "Brain Salad Surgery"
1997AloneJocelynTelevision film
1998Cab to CanadaJet (Runaway)Television film
1999–2000 Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane Jane Cooper24 episodes
2000 Batman Beyond Deanna ClayVoice, episode: "Inqueling"
2001 Gideon's Crossing HaleyEpisode: "The Crash"
2002 Smallville Amy PalmerEpisode: "Shimmer"
2002 Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Iris FisherTelevision film
2002 John Doe KarenEpisode: "Unaired Pilot"
2002 Judging Amy Rhonda PettyEpisode: "Lost in the System"
2002 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Cassie Newton 2 episodes
2003Expert WitnessTelevision film
2003 The Handler AmberEpisode: "Homewrecker's Ball"
2003–2005 CSI: Miami Susie Barnam Keaton4 episodes
2005 Missing MarissaEpisode: "Have You Seen This Man?"
2006, 2011 American Dad! Veronica, CookieVoice, 2 episodes
2006–2007 The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman Skyler8 episodes
2007 Mr. and Mrs. Smith JEpisode: "Pilot"
2007 House IreneEpisode: "Guardian Angels"
2007 Bones Amber KipplerEpisode: "Mummy in the Maze"
2007 Ghost Whisperer Sophie OwensEpisode: "Double Exposure"
2009 The Mentalist Tamzin Dove / Sarah JonesEpisode: "Red Rum"
2009 Hawthorne Mary BarthEpisode: "Yielding"
2010 Cold Case Claire Shepard (1998)Episode: "Bullet"
2011 American Horror Story: Murder House Fiona4 episodes
2012 Grimm Robin SteinkellnerEpisode: "The Thing with Feathers"
2014 Working the Engels Sandy Engel-Karinsky12 episodes
2017 Girls Sharva PontemucciEpisode: “Full Disclosure”
2018–2021 Riverdale Darla4 episodes
2018SpeechlessMaryEpisode: "Celebrity Suite"
2019 Stumptown Stephanie HoustonEpisode: "Rip City Dicks"
2019–2020 Charmed Helen McGaintry2 episodes
Video games
YearTitleRoleNotes
2011 Star Wars: The Old Republic Ashara Zavros [3]
2013 Killzone: Shadow Fall Dr. Hilary Massar [4]

References

  1. "Lycos Movies". Biography on Azura Skye. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2007-02-11.
  2. Gus Thomson (2010-07-22). "Brad Johnson is Auburn's best-known actor you've never heard of". Auburn Journal. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
  3. BioWare (2011-12-20). Star Wars: The Old Republic . Electronic Arts, LucasArts. Scene: closing credits, 9:50 in, English Cast.
  4. Guerrilla Games (2013-11-15). Killzone: Shadow Fall . Sony Computer Entertainment.