| Britt Irvin | |
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| Born | Brittney Elizabeth Irvin November 10, 1984 Vancouver, British Columbia Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Brittney Elizabeth "Britt" Irvin (born November 10, 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Leo Award-nominated Canadian actress and singer, as well as a regular voice actor for Ocean Productions. She is typically credited as Britt Irvin in works since 2003, and as Brittney Irvin in works prior to 2003, though exceptions exist both ways. Britt is best known for playing Katie in Scary Godmother: Halloween Spooktakular and its sequel Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy. She was first billed as Britt Irvin in a 2001 episode of The Outer Limits, and is still sometimes billed as Brittney Irvin in recent work, such as her voice work as Jade in Bratz, and in two of the three episodes of Aliens in America in which she appeared in 2007.
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Britt Irvin was born Brittney Elizabeth Irvin in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and raised in Surrey, British Columbia. She began dancing ballet and singing in festivals starting around 1990 when she was 6 years old. She worked on two musicals at age 10, Show Boat and A Christmas Carol, did voice work in the television series "Nilus the Sandman", and did work in several television commercials between productions, many of which aired in the United States as well as Canada.
In 1996, Irvin appeared in the films Panic in the Skies! and Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue. In 1998 she appeared in the TV series Little Men on Canada's CTV network, which lasted two seasons. Between 1998 and 2000 Irvin also played guest roles on Sleepwalkers, Night Man, Stargate SG-1, and The Outer Limits. In 2000 she played Laurel Everett in the TV movie Angels in the Infield which also starred Patrick Warburton and David Alan Griershe was also in the new movie Barbie a fairy Secret
In 2000 Irvin acted in So Weird. In 2002 Irvin played a red-wine-loving kleptomaniac named Amy in the MTV movie Wasted and played a role in The Outer Limits again in 2003, the same year she appeared in National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Family Reunion with Judge Reinhold and Penelope Ann Miller. Also, in 2003, she portrayed the late Dana Plato in the NBC TV movie Diff'rent Strokes: The Unauthorized Biography.
She played the single teenage mother Paige Leckie in the fourth season of Edgemont in 2004, but left the series after just one season in order to fulfill other commitments. Also in 2004 she played "Maggie" in the movie Jack.
Her works have included the 2005 film Reefer Madness which is based on the 2003 musical, (though she only appeared in one scene), the 2005 TV movie Absolute Zero with Jeff Fahey and Erika Eleniak, the 2007 film Hot Rod starring Andy Samberg, and her recent appearance playing the love interest of Kevin Zegers' character in Normal, which was also released in 2007.
She is named in the special thanks credits of Louis Belanger's 2009 film The Timekeeper, which premiered in Canada at the Vancouver Film Festival and in the United States at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. She had appeared in a scene as a character named Nicole Granger, that was ultimately cut from the film.
Irvin is also an accomplished singer and voice-over artist. Her voice-over credits include TV series: Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Madeline, Bratz and in the English-language version of Inuyasha). She was also the voice of X-23 in the fourth season of X-Men: Evolution; the character later crossed over to the X-Men comic titles where she's headlined her own limited series and currently features in the X-Force title.
She was nominated for a Leo Award in 2008 for her performance in Normal.
Irvin also currently provides the voice for the character Ursula in the George of the Jungle (2007 TV series) cartoon series which currently airs on the Cartoon Network, making her the first (and currently only) person ever to voice a cartoon character in a series remake, where the character had originally been voiced by June Foray in the original. Foray had originally voiced the character Ursula in the original George of the Jungle series from the 1960s - though the character is significantly different in the 2007 series than in the 1967 series. The series aired for two seasons.
Her works in 2009 included the voice of Polly, the love interest of Drake Bell's Harold Kelp in the direct-to-DVD CG-animated sequel of The Nutty Professor; as well as the character Amy in the TV movieSpectacular!, one of the first times she has ever played an antagonist, which aired on Nickelodeon on February 16, 2009.
Her new series The Assistants, in which she plays the lead role Gillian Hughes, premiered on The N on July 10, 2009.[1] The show was renewed for a second season in 2010, though new episods have yet to air.
She appeared in the first three episodes of ABC's remake of the 1980s science fiction miniseries V, which premiered on ABC on November 3, 2009, as well as the first episode of Life UneXpected, which premiered in February 2010 on The CW.[2] Irvin portrayed Stargirl in the Smallville episodes "Absolute Justice", "Salvation" and "Icarus".[3] Her most recent credit is as Kathy Patton in Freshman Father, a Hallmark Channel movie where she portrays a prom queen turned young mother suffering from severe post-partum depression. In 2010, she plays in Barbie: A Fashion Fairy Tale, as the voice of Raquelle
She will co-star in Michael Sucsy's 2012 film The Vow[4] which stars Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, and also includes her former Little Men and Angels in the Infield co-star Rachel Skarsten in the cast.
Irvin released a demo music album in 2003. She has been known to give live performances in Vancouver and Los Angeles. Her music has never been mass-released, but some of the tracks have been found at sites like YouTube.[5]
She is good friends with Alexz Johnson, another singer-actor from the Vancouver area. They have appeared in So Weird and Reefer Madness together. They were also both nominated for Leo Awards in 2008.
Britt Irvin and Andrew Airlie have worked in at least six projects together: the Stargate SG1 episode "Learning Curve" in 1997, Wilderness Love (aka Personally Yours) in 2000, the MTV movie Wasted in 2001, the Showtime movie Jack and the ABC series "The Days" in 2004, and Normal in 2007.
She has one younger brother named Craig.
She has been in a relationship with the researcher and documentary filmmaker Wes Wittkamper since 2005, and also provided part of the soundtrack for his 2010 film Making Change.