Brittany Snow

Brittany Snow (born March 9, 1986) is an American television and film actress. Brittany Snow was born and grew up in Tampa, Florida. She is the daughter of Cynthia, who works for Prentice Hall, and John Snow, Sr, who ran an insurance agency until retiring to organize Brittany's schedule. She has one half-brother, John Jr., and a half-sister; both of them live in Ohio. She attended Carrollwood Day School in Tampa, Florida, for her early education (kindergarten through second grade). She attended Claywell Elementary for the rest of elementary school. For middle school, she attended Ben Hill. Brittany is a 2004 graduate of Gaither High School in Tampa, Florida. She enjoys spending time with her boy friend Kevin T., often visiting her hometown of Tampa, Florida. Snow was raised Catholic.

Brittany Snow began modeling at the age of three and a half in a print ad for Burdines. She had a popular role at age twelve as troubled teen Susan LeMay on the soap opera Guiding Light from 1998 to 2001. She is perhaps best known for playing Meg Pryor on NBC's American Dreams and neo-Nazi high school student Ariel Alderman on the third season of Nip/Tuck. In 2005, she appeared in The Pacifier with action star Vin Diesel. In 2006, she was in the film John Tucker Must Die and voiced Naminé in the video game Kingdom Hearts II as well as Shizuku Tsukishima in the Studio Ghibli film "Whisper of the Heart".

Brittany Snow has more recently appeared in Hairspray, a film adaptation of the Broadway musical, playing Amber Von Tussle alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, James Marsden, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, John Travolta, and Queen Latifah. She had already worked with the director of Hairspray(Adam Shankman) on the Disney film The Pacifier. With her role in Hairspray, her musical side is shown in numerous numbers, including a solo entitled "The New Girl In Town", a song previously cut from the Broadway musical version. She played the lead role in Prom Night, which was released in April 2008. Brittany appeared on the music video for "The Phrase That Pays" by The Academy Is... which was released July 2007.

It has been reported that she is in final talks to appear as the young Lily van der Woodsen in the new Gossip Girl spinoff. Snow star's as the younger Lily in the Gossip Girl 24th Episode for its 2nd Season entitled Valley Girls.