Brittany Underwood

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Brittany Underwood
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in the television film The Killer In My Backyard (2021) by Hybrid LLC.
Born (1988-07-06) July 6, 1988 (age 37)
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active2005–present

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 .

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Early life

Brittany Underwood was born on July 6, 1988 [1] [2] in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. [3] Her mother is Colombian and her father is American of English descent. [4] She has an older sister named Brigitte. Underwood speaks fluent Spanish and is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. [3] [5] She attended Mountain Lakes High School. [6]

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. [4] [7]

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. [4] [5]

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 . [4] 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". [8] 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". [9]

In 2014 Underwood played the lead in the television film Death Clique. [10]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010MarielaMarielaVideo
2011 Margaret Leslie
2012 Game Change Willow PalinTV movie
2014Death CliqueJade ThompsonTV movie
2015Merry KissmasKimTV movie
2016Hidden TruthNatalieTV movie
The Dark Tapes Amanda Courtney
BackstabbedShelby WilsonTV movie
2017Love on the VinesAmeliaTV movie
It Happened One Valentine'sCarson Pete
Meat CuteJamieShort
Deadly VowsHelenaTV movie
The Bachelor Next DoorSageTV movie
L.A. PlayerJocelynShort
2018Babysitter's NightmareDaphne HartTV movie
20192nd Chance for ChristmasChance LoveTV movie
2020Off the GridSandraTV movie
Dying for A DaughterMargaretTV movie
2021A Deadly BridenappingLeahTV movie
Hollywood.Con Jocelyn Reynolds
Assault on va-33Vee
The Killer in My BackyardAllysonTV movie
GuntherBrittanyShort
2022The Final RoseNicki
Mother's Deadly SonTaraTV movie
A Prince and Pauper ChristmasSydneyTV movie
2023Love's PlaylistTurnleyTV movie
12 Dares of ChristmasElaraTV movie
A Royal Christmas HolidayKatieTV movie

Television roles

YearTitleRoleNotes
2002–12 One Life to Live Langston Wilde Regular Cast
2005 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Kelly BrownEpisode "Demons"
2010–20 The Bay Riley HendersonMain Cast: Season 1-4, Recurring Cast: Season 5-6
2011 The Big C GretaEpisode: "The Little c"
2012 Hollywood Heights Loren TateMain Cast
2014 Major Crimes SydneyEpisode: "Do Not Disturb"
The Goldbergs Jill RubinEpisode: “Shall We Play a Game?”
2014–15 Youthful Daze Sheila EdmundsonMain Cast: Season 3, Recurring Cast: Season 4
2015TMI HollywoodVariousEpisode: "Scheana Shay Rules"

Discography

References

  1. ↑ "Brittany Underwood". Soap Opera Digest: 43. July 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Brittany Underwood". Hollywood.com. December 9, 2014. Archived from the original on January 3, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Brittany Underwood". soapteens.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Leal, Samantha (July 11, 2012). "Introducing Hollywood Heights Actress Brittany Underwood". Latina . Archived from the original on January 27, 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Brittany Underwood Biography". buddytv.com. Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  6. ↑ Lutz, Jaime. "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."
  7. ↑ "Fifteen Seconds With Brittany Underwood". YouTube. March 8, 2010. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Brittany Underwood - Flow". Apple. Archived from the original on August 17, 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Brittany Underwood - Not Yet". Apple. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
  10. ↑ Arreola, Cristina (April 12, 2014). "EXCLUSIVE: Brittany Underwood Talks 'Death Clique' & Being Latina In Hollywood". Latina . Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
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