Brittany Anne Snow (born March 9, 1986) is an American television and film actress.
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."
She more recently appeared in
Hairspray, a film adaptation of the Broadway musical, playing Amber Von Tussle alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, James Marsden, Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, John Travolta, and Queen Latifah. 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. [Wiki]