Johanna Braddy

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Johanna Elizabeth Braddy (* thirtieth August 1987 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American actress and voice actress , known for her recurring guest role as Jordan in the ABC Family - TV Series Greek and her role as Jenny Matrix in the web series Video Game High School .

Life

Early years

Johanna Elizabeth Braddy was born on August 30, 1987 in Atlanta , Georgia . Her father Steve Braddy is an engineer and test driver of test boats. Her mother, Jo Beth Braddy, is a singer and preschool - music teacher . Johanna Braddy has a brother, Cole Braddy, who is eight years her junior.

Very early on, at the age of three, Braddy had the desire to become an actress . She started taking ballet lessons when she was four years old . This was followed by jazz -, tap - and pointe . At the age of eight she took her first stage role as Tessie in the play Annie at the Fox Theater with the Theater of the Stars in Atlanta. She was cast in four other plays at the Fox Theater.

At the Atlanta Workshop Players

Johanna Braddy was accepted as a singing and dancing talent with the Atlanta Workshop Players , an acting troupe of talented children and teens who perform musicals for schools in Georgia and the Southeast USA as part of the Atlanta Workshop Players Tour Show . She stayed with the Atlanta Workshop Players for eight years, up to the eleventh grade, and attended their summer acting courses, where she hired her first acting agent at the age of ten and started her film career. While Braddy was still in school, she starred in her first television movie, the 2004 Disney film, Rockstars Forever , which was filmed in New Orleans .

During her time in Georgia , Braddy had two agents, one from Hot Shot Kids and Teens and one from Houghton Talents . She mostly shot commercials or worked as a voice actor because Georgia doesn't have a big movie industry. Instead, she went to auditions in North Carolina or New Orleans or submitted them via video.

Last school year, 2005, Braddy and her mother came to Los Angeles for a few months for the pilot season to see how Braddy's chances of work were. Ultimately, she was cast for the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar - The Last Airbender and for the pilot of Surface - Weird Depth . Then Braddy decided to move to Los Angeles. Braddy attended McIntosh High School in Peachtree City , located in Fayette County , Georgia , until 2005 . She was, among other things, the captain of the high school dance team . When she was 17, she finally moved to Los Angeles.

Acting career in Hollywood

Johanna Braddy initially played in various guest roles in Hollywood , for example in the CBS television series Cold Case , Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh or as the younger version of the main character Samantha (played by Christina Applegate ) in Samantha Who? , for ABC . In addition, Braddy often worked as a speaker during his early days in Hollywood. In addition to various voice-overs for commercials , she spoke in the animated series Avatar - The Last Airbender and in the Oscar- nominated Mockumentary - the animated film Kings of the Waves . Braddy had a recurring guest role for the first time in the FX Network series The Riches . She appeared here in six episodes as Tammy Simms . On the television series Greek , Braddy had her longest recurring role as Jordan Reed in 15 episodes . In the following years she appeared in several well-known television series, including Lie to Me , Southland , Detroit 1-8-7 , CSI: Miami , Leverage or Criminal Minds . She also played in several horror films . In 2009, Braddy starred in the direct-to-DVD film The Curse - The Grudge 3 and in the direct-to-DVD film Hurt . In 2011, Braddy played the main character Amanda in The Levenger Tapes and another role in Paranormal Activity 3 . The horror film The Collection followed in 2012 . 2012 to 2014 Braddy took on a starring role as Jenny Matrix in the web series Video Game High School of Freddie Wong . In 2015, Braddy starred in the dramedy series UnREAL alongside Constance Zimmer and Shiri Appleby . That same year, Braddy was cast in the ABC thriller Quantico .

Johanna Braddy was married to Josh Blaylock, her fellow actor from Video Game High School , since November 2012 . The couple divorced in early 2015. On December 30, 2016, she married her UnREAL co-star Freddie Stroma .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c JOHANNA E. BRADDY. In: hurt-the-movie.com. High Treason Productions, 2008, archived from the original on October 10, 2010 ; accessed on January 22, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ A b Johanna Braddy - Biography. In: imdb.com. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 29, 2012 .
  3. ^ A b An insight to being a working actor in Los Angeles. Q & As with Johanna Braddy and Kinsey McLean . In: Marilyn A. Haas (Ed.): Arts & expressions MAGAZINE . Volume 5, No. 2 , 2007, p. 22 ( online [PDF]).
  4. ↑ Hurt PressKit. (PDF) In: montereymedia.com. monterey media inc, March 3, 2011, accessed May 29, 2012 .
  5. ↑ An insight to being a working actor in Los Angeles. Q & As with Johanna Braddy and Kinsey McLean . In: Marilyn A. Haas (Ed.): Arts & expressions MAGAZINE . Volume 5, Issue 2, 2007, pp. 23 ( online [PDF]).
  6. ^ Matt Arnold: VGHS Credits. In: rocketjump.com. Rocket Jump, May 10, 2012, accessed May 29, 2012 .
  7. ^ Matt Arnold: VGHS Season 2 Update and Writing Process. In: rocketjump.com. Rocket Jump, October 15, 2012, accessed December 5, 2012 .
  8. ↑ harwellphoto (@harwellphoto): Tweet from November 11, 2012, 6:42 pm , on: twitter.com. Twitter , accessed November 17, 2012.
  9. ↑ Annika Leichner: Johanna Braddy and Freddie Stroma got married. myFanbase, January 2, 2017, accessed January 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Braddy, Johanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braddy, Johanna Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta , Georgia , United States