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Briana Evigan Biography
Briana Evigan is an American actress, dancer, singer, songwriter and choreographer. She is best known for her roles in the Step Up series and for her scream queen roles in numerous horror films. Briana began dancing and acting at a young age.
Briana started dancing professionally and appeared in very many music videos, most notably “Numb” by Linkin Park (2003). She also began acting and had small roles in films such as Bottom’s Up (2006) and television series such as Fear Itself (2008). Her breakthrough came when she appeared as Andrea “Andie” West in the dance film Step Up 2: The Streets (2008). Since then she has been noted as a Scream Queen for starring in numerous horror and thriller films, including S. Darko (2009), Sorority Row (2009), Burning Bright (2010), Mother’s Day (2010), The Devil’s Carnival (2012), Stash House (2012), Mine Games (2012), Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival (2016) and the second season of From Dusk Till Dawn (2015).
Briana Evigan Age
Briana was born on October 23, 1986 in Los Angeles, California. She is 32 years old as of 2018.
Briana Evigan Family
Briana was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of Pamela C. Serpe, a dancer, model, and actress, and actor Greg Evigan. She has Polish from her paternal grandmother and Italian from her maternal grandfather heritage. She has three siblings and she is the youngest. Her brother is Jason and sister Vanessa Lee. Briana studied dance since she was nine. She is one of the singers in group Moorish Ido and she plays keyboards. She undertook a speech and communication degree at Los Angeles Valley College. Currently she lives in Los Angeles, California, where she usually has Fanchats with fans through UStream, and has her own YouTube channel, in which she posts Work out videos.
Briana Evigan Husband | Briana Evigan Dating | Briana Evigan Robert Hoffman
Briana is so secretive when it comes to her love life. Although she has been rumored to have been in a relationship there before with her Step UP co-star Robert Hoffman she has never mentioned if she is dating anyone. She also surprised many after she was seen playing a lesbian character in 2016’s Love Is All You Need? In an interview with Ellen, Briana talked about the role but did not touch on her own real-life sexual orientation. Briana is not yet married.
Briana Evigan Career
Evigan has appeared in music videos for Linkin Park, Flo Rida, T-Pain and Enrique Iglesias. She has also had small roles in television series and films such as Bottom’s Up, Something Sweet and Fear Itself.
She won the breakout role of Andie West in the sequel to the 2006 dance drama Step Up, Step Up 2: The Streets in 2008. In late 2007 that when filming took place in Baltimore and was released February 14, 2008. It was met with negative reviews with Rotten Tomatoes (receiving 24%), achieved box office success earning a worldwide gross of $148,424,320. Evigan and co-star Robert Hoffman earned the Best Kiss Award at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.
S. Darko, a sequel to the 2001 cult-hit horror Donnie Darko, was released in 2009. Briana played Samantha Darko’s best friend, Corey. It stars James Lafferty and Ed Westwick. A theatrical release was withdrawn and was released Straight-to-DVD on May 12, 2009. Different from Donnie Darko, the film received negative reviews.
Summit Entertainment announce in August 2008 that Evigan has signed on to portray the central character Cassidy Tappan in the remake of the low-budget horror film Sorority Row. Good Luck Chuck wrote the screenplay was written by Good Luck Chuck writer Josh Stolberg and directed by Stewart Hendler. The film was budgeted at $12,500,000. Evigan stars alongside Audrina Patridge, Rumer Willis and Jamie Chung. Sorority Row was released on September 11, 2009 and debuted at No. 6 at the box office and earned worldwide $26,735,797. Critical reception was mixed to negative. Evigan’s performance was well received by critics. The leading female cast members earned a ShoWest Award for “Female Stars of Tomorrow” in April 2009. The DVD release was February 23, 2010.
Evigan announced in an interview in February 2009 that she has signed on for another remake. The film will be a remake of the cult slasher horror film Mother’s Day and will be directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, best known for his work with previous Lionsgate films such as the Saw trilogy. Bousman previously directed Evigan in an episode of Fear Itself in 2008. The film will co-star A. J. Cook and Jaime King. The film has suffered numerous push backs, and was finally released on May 8, 2012 on DVD and Blu-ray. The film was also part of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Evigan was confirmed by Lionsgate to star in Burning Bright in January 2009. She plays the lead female role, Kelly Taylor. In the film, “A young woman and her autistic brother find themselves trapped in their house with a ravenous tiger during a hurricane”. Critical reception was extremely positive. Despite this, the film was announced to be released Straight-to-DVD on August 17, 2010.
In the indie drama romance film Subject: I Love You Evigan played the central character . She stars in The Devil’s Carnival, a short film that got a 30 city world tour that began in April 15, 2012. Evigan later confirmed that she had reprised her role in its sequel, The Devil’s Carnival: Alleluia!, which was released in late 2015.
During a UStream, Evigan announced in 2011,that she was working in a TV series with her family, though nothing has been confirmed yet. She was cast to star as the protagonist of Left for Red: Betrayal, the first of a trilogy which is based on a young woman seeking vengeance on the soldiers who sold her to a sex trafficking group, but has been shelved due to budget issues.
Briana repeated her role as Andie West in the fifth installment of the Step Up series, Step Up: All In in 2014 . She was later cast in Love Is All You Need? as Jude, a heterosexual woman living in a world where homosexuality is right, and heterosexuality is the wrong.
Briana announced, via Twitter in 2015, that she would be recurring, alongside Danny Trejo in the second season of the Action-Vampire TV Series From Dusk Till Dawn as Sonja, “an American expatriate working as a tattoo artist in a Mexican Mercado – who also has a sideline forging papers and passports out of her back room”. The season premiered August 25, 2015 on El Rey.
Briana joined director James Kicklighter’s Angel of Anywhere, with co-stars Ser’Darius Blain (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle), David A. Gregory in 2017, and introducing Axel Roldos.
Briana Evigan Movies
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
1996 |
Spectre |
Aubrey South |
Also known as House of the Damned and Escape to Nowhere |
2004 |
Something Sweet |
Wannabe Actress #1/Feature Pool |
Short film |
2006 |
Bottoms Up |
High School Girl |
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2008 |
Step Up 2: The Streets |
Andrea “Andie” West |
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2009 |
S. Darko |
Corey Richardson |
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Sorority Row |
Cassidy Tappan |
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2010 |
Burning Bright |
Kelly Taylor |
Sings end credit song, I’m Free |
Mother’s Day |
Annette Langston |
Co-wrote and sang end credit song, Better Than Yesterday |
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Monster Heroes |
Svector Orlaff |
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2011 |
Subject: I Love You |
Butterfly |
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2012 |
Rites of Passage |
Penelope |
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The Devil’s Carnival |
Ms. Merrywood |
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Stash House |
Emma Nash |
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Mine Games |
Lyla |
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A Star for Christmas |
Cassie Drake |
Television film (ION) |
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2013 |
She Loves Me Not |
Charlotte |
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2014 |
Puncture Wounds |
Tanya |
Also known as A Certain Justice |
Step Up: All In |
Andrea “Andie” West |
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Lap Dance |
Tasha |
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Paranormal Island |
Ivy |
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2015 |
Once Upon a Holiday |
Katherine “Katie” Hollington |
Television film (Hallmark) |
2016 |
Monday at 11:01 A.M. |
Olivia |
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ToY |
Chloe |
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Love Is All You Need? |
Jude Klein |
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The Devil’s Carnival: Alleluia! |
Ms. Merrywood |
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2017 |
The Good Nanny |
Spencer Pratt |
TV film |
SockMonster |
Anne |
Short film |
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2018 |
Angel of Anywhere |
Michelle |
Short film |
My Husband’s Secret Wife |
Melanie |
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River Runs Red |
Marilyn |
Briana Evigan Christmas Movie
Once Upon a Holiday is a 2015 American-Canadian romantic comedy film directed by James Head and starring Briana Evigan, Paul Campbell, and Greg Evigan. Written by David Golden, the film is about a princess who runs away from her royal obligations to escape for a few days in New York City during the Christmas season to see how normal people live their lives. She is helped by a kind man who is unaware of her true identity, and gradually the two fall in love. The television film first aired on November 25, 2015 on the Hallmark Channel.