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Brittany Underwood
Brittany Underwood
	in the television film The Killer In My Backyard (2021) by Hybrid LLC.
Born	July 6, 1988 (age 36); Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005–present

Brittany Underwood (born July 6, 1988) is a Colombian American actress, director, and singer. She is known for her roles as teenagers Langston Wilde on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live and Loren Tate on the Nick at Nite/TeenNick serial drama Hollywood Heights.

Early life

Brittany Underwood was born on July 6, 1988^[1]^[2] in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.^[3] Her mother is Colombian and her father is American of English descent.^[4] She has an older sister named Brigitte. Underwood speaks fluent Spanish and is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.^[3]^[5] She attended Mountain Lakes High School.^[6]

In an interview with SOAPnet in 2010, Underwood said she was currently attending Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York. At the college, she researched neuroscience, and such diseases as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.^[4]^[7]

Career

Underwood's first television role was in a 2005 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She later auditioned for the title role in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, but the role went to Miley Cyrus.^[4]^[5]

Underwood portrayed Langston Wilde on the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 2006 to 2012, a role she originated. In 2012 she starred as Loren Tate on the Nick at Nite/TeenNick serial drama Hollywood Heights.^[4] She performed several songs on both series.

Underwood officially began a singing career in 2012. On December 18, 2012, Underwood released a single called "Flow".^[8] It and more songs like "Pull Me in Again", "Black Widow", "California Wild", "Love Me Now or Let Me Go", "Shine" and "High Heels High Hopes" all are on her EP in iTunes and YouTube. In 2015, she released a single titled "Not Yet".^[9]

In 2014 Underwood played the lead in the television film Death Clique.^[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Mariela	Mariela	Video
2011	Margaret	Leslie
2012	Game Change	Willow Palin	TV movie
2014	Death Clique	Jade Thompson	TV movie
2015	Merry Kissmas	Kim	TV movie
2016	Hidden Truth	Natalie	TV movie
	The Dark Tapes	Amanda Courtney
	Backstabbed	Shelby Wilson	TV movie
2017	Love on the Vines	Amelia	TV movie
	It Happened One Valentine's	Carson Pete
	Meat Cute	Jamie	Short
	Deadly Vows	Helena	TV movie
	The Bachelor Next Door	Sage	TV movie
	L.A. Player	Jocelyn	Short
2018	Babysitter's Nightmare	Daphne Hart	TV movie
2019	2nd Chance for Christmas	Chance Love	TV movie
2020	Off the Grid	Sandra	TV movie
2020	Dying for A Daughter	Margaret	TV movie
2021	A Deadly Bridenapping	Leah	TV movie
	Hollywood.Con	Jocelyn Reynolds
	Assault on va-33	Vee
	The Killer in My Backyard	Allyson	TV movie
	Gunther	Brittany	Short
2022	The Final Rose	Nicki
	Mother's Deadly Son	Tara	TV movie
	A Prince and Pauper Christmas	Sydney	TV movie
2023	Love's Playlist	Turnley	TV movie
	12 Dares of Christmas	Elara	TV movie
	A Royal Christmas Holiday	Katie	TV movie

Television roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002–12	One Life to Live	Langston Wilde	Regular Cast
2005	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Kelly Brown	Episode "Demons"
2010–20	The Bay	Riley Henderson	Main Cast: Season 1-4, Recurring Cast: Season 5-6
2011	The Big C	Greta	Episode: "The Little c"
2012	Hollywood Heights	Loren Tate	Main Cast
2014	Major Crimes	Sydney	Episode: "Do Not Disturb"
2014	The Goldbergs	Jill Rubin	Episode: “Shall We Play a Game?”
2014–15	Youthful Daze	Sheila Edmundson	Main Cast: Season 3, Recurring Cast: Season 4
2015	TMI Hollywood	Various	Episode: "Scheana Shay Rules"

Discography

Brittany Underwood (2013)

References

^ "Brittany Underwood". Soap Opera Digest: 43. July 16, 2012.
^ "Brittany Underwood". Hollywood.com. Archived from the original on January 3, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Brittany Underwood". soapteens.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Leal, Samantha (July 11, 2012). "Introducing Hollywood Heights Actress Brittany Underwood". Latina. Archived from the original on January 27, 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Brittany Underwood Biography". buddytv.com. Archived from the original on February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
^ Lutz, Jaime. "From Mountain Lakes to Nickelodeon, Brittany Underwood doesn't sleep", The Star-Ledger, July 5, 2012, updated March 20, 2019. Accessed August 27, 2020. "She started acting professionally while she was still a student at Mountain Lakes High School, getting a steady, if slight, stream of work: a guest-star role on Law and Order, a featured part in Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret, various commercials."
^ "Fifteen Seconds With Brittany Underwood". YouTube. March 8, 2010. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
^ "Brittany Underwood - Flow". Apple. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
^ "Brittany Underwood - Not Yet". Apple. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
^ Arreola, Cristina (April 12, 2014). "EXCLUSIVE: Brittany Underwood Talks 'Death Clique' & Being Latina In Hollywood". Latina. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2016.