Daphne Blunt

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Daphne Blunt

Blunt pictured in 2013.
Born Daphne Louise Blunt
(1997-10-23) October 23, 1997
Overland Park, Kansas, U.S.
Nationality American
Ethnicity Mixed[1]
Occupation actress, singer, red carpet hostess, fashionista
Years active 2008–present
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[1]
Weight 105 pounds (48 kg)[1]
Website

www.daphneblunt.com

Daphne Blunt EPK

Daphne Louise Blunt (born October 23, 1997) is an American teen actress, singer, red carpet hostess and fashionista. Daphne Blunt is the face of Fanlala.com, where she regularly interviews celebrities on the red carpets of Hollywood, anchors Fanlala's E-news show "The Feed," and stars in her own fashion & style show, Daphne's Look of the Week. Daphne does the lead voiceover for Fanlala.com's "Josie and her Celebrity Friends," a comedy following a tennage girl and her imaginary celebrity friends! Daphne recently starred as Emma in the new Nickelodeon show The Thundermans.

Daphne Blunt is best known for starring as Kayla in the Radio Disney series My Dream, which is described by The Hollywood Reporter as "a contemporary story on a format reminiscent of the 1940s, before TV was pervasive."[2] However, unlike Depression-era radio series, that typically featured episodes lasting 30 minutes, episodes of Disney's My Dream last just 90 seconds each, described as "bite-size chucks" by Disney executives.[3] The character Kayla is a 14-year-old teenage girl from the Midwest who wants to be rockstar. Listeners follow her in each episode as she pursues her dream while dealing with the usual struggles, responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of an everyday teen.[4]

Blunt made her first television appearance at the age of 10 on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless.[5] She starred in the movie The Things You Lose in the Ocean,[6] which premiered in May 2010 as part of the Dodge College Graduate Thesis Program at Chapman University in Orange, California.[7]

Blunt has appeared on other television series and films including the Nickelodeon game show BrainSurge, Lifetime movie Amish Grace and Disney.com webisode Solution Street.[1] She also starred in the 2009 television pilot My Daddy is the President.[8]

Blunt has also appeared in numerous national TV commercials, including Disney Interactive and Kmart's 2009 Back to School series.[9] Her Kmart commercial Rockstare, which received much notoriety, can be viewed on YouTube.[10]

Blunt is also a recording artist and songwriter. She was a finalist with her pop song Crush Rush in the 2009 International Songwriting Competition.[11]

Career

Early Career

Blunt was born at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas. She began acting at the age of 3, appearing in local theater. In 2004, she moved to Miami, where she continued to perform in local theater and began modeling for one of the top modeling agencies in the country, Irene Marie Models, best known for their reality show 8th and Ocean. In 2008, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting and singing career. She is represented by her agent Coast to Coast Talent Group in Los Angeles,[1] and managed by Go Talent Management in Studio City, California.[1]

Radio and Internet

Blunt at the Mary Poppins Screening in Los Angeles
Blunt starred in My Dream on Radio Disney, which first aired on July 5, 2010. While radio episodes are in audio format only, each is turned into a webisode by Radio Disney and made available on their website.[12] She has received international attention for her role in the series, including coverage in the United States,[13] Canada,[14] China,[15] India,[16] Singapore,[17] South Africa,[18] Taiwan[19] and the UAE.[20]

Through Fanlala.com, Daphne Blunt regularly interviews celebrities on the red carpets of movie premiers, including Gnomeo & Juliet, Disney's Frozen and Monsters University to name a few. Blunt anchors Fanlala's E-news show "The Feed," and stars in her own fashion & style show, Daphne's Look of the Week. Daphne also does the lead voiceover for Fanlala.com's "Josie and her Celebrity Friends," a comedy following a tennage girl and her imaginary celebrity friends! Previously, she was the host of Daphne's LaLaLand on Fanlala.com, which was also syndicated on cable television around the world. She also currently hosts Daphne's Look of the Week on the same website.[21] She is also a celebrity host on Fanlala.com for special events such as the Hollywood Christmas Parade.[22]

Television and Film

Blunt at Children's Hospital in Orange County
Blunt first appeared on a television series in 2008 as Jayele on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. Shortly after she starred in the 2009 television sitcom pilot My Daddy is the President as Kylie, the daughter of a newly elected Obama-like character.[8] In the pilot, Kylie has to use her charm, wits and a little magic to restore her dad's State of the Union speech to the computer that she and her friends had messed up while playing video games in the Oval Office.

Blunt starred in the 2010 film The Things You Lose in the Ocean,[6] which was filmed as part of the Dodge College Graduate Thesis Program at Chapman College in Orange, California.[7] The film, set in the 1940s, is a story about Caribbean black magic in which Blunt's character Jilly-Ann must fight off the demons created by her mother years before. It was to be entered into a number of film festivals in 2010.

Blunt has appeared in other series and films including Nickelodeon game show BrainSurge, Lifetime movie Amish Grace, Disney.com webisode Solution Street, Up Jump the Boogie[23] and Strange Little Girl.[24]

Blunt has appeared in numerous commercial advertisements for national accounts including Disney, Disney.com, Disney Interactive Studios, Kmart, Under Armour, Broder Brothers and Knippies.

Musical Career

Blunt was named a finalist in the 2009 International Songwriting Competition (ISC), which had over 15,000 entries. The ISC has a prestigious panel of judges that were reviewing the finalists including Grammy winners Steve Winwood, Timbaland, Rob Thomas, Adele and Jerry Lee Lewis. The judges also included industry executives including Rick Krim from VH1, Brian Malouf from Walt Disney Records, Douglas C. Cohn from Nickelodeon and Amanda Ghost from Epic Records. She got an honorable mention for her song Crush Rush in the Teen category.[11]

In July 2009, Blunt recorded her first pop single, Crush Rush,[25] and followed it shortly with her first music video.[26] In the fall of 2009, she recorded her second pop single entitled "Rock n Roll."[27] Daphne co-wrote both songs with Jonathan George, who was the Grand Champion of Ed McMahon's Next Big Star,[28] a sequel to Star Search.

During the first season of the series My Dream, Blunt released her third single, Hello World, on Radio Disney, and published a video for it on YouTube on March 21, 2011.[29]

Radio and Filmography

Year[30] Title Role Notes
2008 The Young and the Restless Jayele Featured
Pubert Sasha Principal
2009 My Daddy is the President Kylie Lead
Strange Little Girl Sally McPhee Featured
Up Jump the Boogie Keke Featured
BrainSurge Herself Season 1, episode 1
2010 The Things You Lose Jilly-Ann Lead
Radio Disney's My Dream Kayla Lead, voice
Amish Grace Lilly Uncredited
79th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade Herself Host & Guest
2011 Daphne's LaLaLand Herself Host
80th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade Herself Guest
2012 America's Most Wanted Desiree Morales Principal
81th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade Herself Guest
2013 Penny Arcade Melissa Principal
Nickelodeon's The Thundermans Emma Co-Star
Josie and her Celebrity Friends Josie Lead, voice
2010–present Fanlala Red Carpet Hosting Herself Host
2012-present Daphne's Look of the Week Herself Host
Fanlala Feed Herself Host

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "IMDb Resume for Daphne Blunt". IMDB. Retrieved July 17, 2012. 
  2. ↑ The Hollywood Reporter
  3. ↑ "ABC News". Abcnews.go.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  4. ↑ "The Washington Post". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  5. ↑ CBS News
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Things You Lose Official Website
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Chapman University News". Ftv.chapman.edu. May 7, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Official Website". Daphneblunt.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  9. ↑ "Official Website". Daphneblunt.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  10. ↑ "Kmart on Youtube". Youtube. August 10, 2009. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "International Songwriting Competition - Previous Winners - 2009". Songwritingcompetition.com. December 21, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  12. ↑ Daphne Blunt (July 1, 2010). "FanLaLa.com". FanLaLa.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  13. ↑ The Today Show
  14. ↑ "CBC News". Canada: CBC. June 29, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  15. ↑ "Muzi.com". News.muzi.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  16. ↑ Ghelani, Shreya. "AOL Bollywood". Aol.in. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  17. ↑ InSing.com
  18. ↑ Location Settings (June 29, 2010). "News24". News24. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  19. ↑ "Taiwan News". Etaiwannews.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  20. ↑ "Khaleej Times". Khaleej Times. June 29, 2010. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  21. ↑ "Fanlala Video". Fanlala.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  22. ↑ fanlalatv (January 28, 2009). "Daphne Blunt Hosts the Hollywood Christmas Parade for Fanlala". Youtube. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  23. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Up Jump the Boogie (2009)". IMDB. 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2012. 
  24. ↑ "Full cast and crew for Strange Little Girl (2009)". IMDB. 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2012. 
  25. ↑ Daphne Blunt (August 18, 2009). "Crush Rush by Daphne Blunt (Recording Studio)". YouTube. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  26. ↑ Daphne Blunt (October 9, 2009). "Crush Rush by Daphne Blunt". YouTube. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  27. ↑ Daphne Blunt (November 20, 2009). "Rock n Roll by Daphne". MySpace Music. Retrieved July 17, 2012. 
  28. ↑ JJPZ Talent Development (January 4, 2007). "JONATHAN GEORGE ON NEXT BIG STAR". YouTube. Retrieved January 12, 2012. 
  29. ↑ Daphne Blunt (March 21, 2011). "Hello World by Daphne Blunt". YouTube. Retrieved July 17, 2012. 
  30. ↑ "Filmography by year for Daphne Blunt". IMDB. Retrieved July 17, 2012. 

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