Erica Sweany

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Erica Sweany has performed on Broadway, in film and on television as an actress, a dancer, a singer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Biography

Born and raised in Colorado, she is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado (UNC). [1]

Career

In 2013 Erica participated in a spoof on The Sound of Music with David Letterman during his opening monologue during two separate episodes of The Late Show. [2]

In 2014 Sweany made her Broadway debut in the original Broadway cast of Honeymoon in Vegas by Jason Robert Brown. [3] Later that year she made her network television debut as Elise Paschen in The Blacklist starring James Spader.

In 2015 she guest starred as Julia Becker on the TV series Eye Candy starring Victoria Justice. [2]

In 2016 she portrayed Anna in It Had to Be You starring Cristin Milioti. [2] She also guest-starred on Lifetime Movie Network's I Love You... But I Lied. [2]

In 2017 she joined the Broadway cast of M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang starring Clive Owen and directed by Julie Taymor [4] as an understudy. Shortly before the show closed on Broadway she played the wife of Mr. Owen, when a cast member was ill. Also in 2017, Sweany played Kate Tompkins on Law & Order: SVU. [2]

Erica joined the cast for the second year of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway as an ensemble member, aerialist and understudy. [1] Later in 2018 the feature film, How the Light Gets In starring Erica and writer Jude Severin was released, as well as Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2 [2] where Erica played Mrs. Londonderry.

In 2019 Erica played a featured role in Motherless Brooklyn, written, directed and starring Edward Norton. [2]

In 2021 Sweany played Rachel Dunn in FBI: Most Wanted. [2] That same year she danced in the film White Noise by Noah Baumbach, which was choreographed by her husband, David Neumann. [2]

In 2022 Sweany returned to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to play the role of Ginny Potter. [5]

Erica was featured in the film Birth/Rebirth by Laura Moss, starring Marin Ireland, as the opening midnight film at Sundance [6] in 2023. She then appeared as Florence in Amazon Prime's Dead Ringers starring Rachel Weisz. [7]

In addition to the performing arts Erica has worked in costume and production design, [2] ceramics, photography and iOS app development.

She is married to choreographer David Neumann.

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