Brittany Snow

Brittany Anne Snow was born on March 9, 1986, in Tampa, Florida, to Cinda and John Snow. Her mother is of English, Swiss, and Italian descent, and her father is of Scottish, Lebanese, and German descent. She has a brother and a sister and attended Gaither High School in Tampa. Snow began her career in the entertainment industry at the age of three, appearing in a print advertisement for Burdines department stores.

Snow first gained widespread attention through her work in television, joining the cast of the CBS soap opera Guiding Light in 1998, where she played troubled teenager Susan "Daisy" Lemay for three years. Her performance earned her a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress, along with nominations for two additional Young Artist Awards and a Soap Opera Digest Award. From 2002 to 2005, she starred as Meg Pryor in the NBC drama series American Dreams, a role for which she received a Young Artist Award nomination and three Teen Choice Award nominations. She also contributed backup vocals to the American Dreams soundtrack on the song "My Boyfriend's Back." Her television work during this period further included a portrayal of neo-Nazi high school student Ariel Alderman in the third season of FX's Nip/Tuck and an appearance as young Lily Rhodes in an episode of Gossip Girl.

Snow's film career expanded steadily through the mid-2000s. She appeared alongside Vin Diesel and Lauren Graham in the family comedy The Pacifier (2005) and co-starred with Jesse Metcalfe in the teen romantic comedy John Tucker Must Die (2006), which earned $68 million worldwide. Also in 2006, she voiced Naminé in the video game Kingdom Hearts II and provided the English-language voice of Shizuku Tsukishima in the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart. She appeared in the season seven finale of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as a young woman with bipolar disorder and was featured in the music video for "The Phrase That Pays" by The Academy Is..., released in July 2006.

In 2007, Snow appeared in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Hairspray, directed by Adam Shankman, with whom she had previously worked on The Pacifier. She played Amber Von Tussle, the daughter of Michelle Pfeiffer's character, and performed several musical numbers in the film, including a solo called "The New Girl In Town," a song that had been cut from the original Broadway production. The following year, she took the lead role of Donna Keppel in the slasher film Prom Night (2008), which was released on April 11, 2008, and grossed $57.2 million at the box office. That same year, Snow made her Broadway appearance, marking her stage debut in 2008. She had also previously participated in The 24 Hour Plays in 2004.

Snow joined the cast of the NBC legal comedy-drama Harry's Law as a series regular beginning January 17, 2011, and returned as a recurring character in its second season. She also starred alongside Evan Ross in the thriller 96 Minutes (2011). Her career reached a new level of popular recognition with the musical comedy film Pitch Perfect (2012), in which she played a cappella singer Chloe. The original film grossed $115.4 million worldwide. She reprised the role in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), which earned over $287 million globally, surpassing the first film's total gross within five days and becoming the highest-grossing music comedy film of all time, overtaking School of Rock's $131.3 million. Snow appeared in Pitch Perfect 3 (2017) for a third and final time, a film that grossed $185 million worldwide.

Additional film credits include Would You Rather (2012), The Late Bloomer (2016), the action thriller Bushwick (2017) in which she played the lead role of Lucy, Someone Great (2019) for Netflix, and Ti West's horror film X (2022), in which she portrayed Bobby-Lynne Parker. Snow made her directorial debut with the drama film Parachute, which premiered at the SXSW festival in March 2023. That same year, she starred in the short film Red, White and Blue (2023) as Rachel, a single mother and waitress living in Arkansas who travels to Illinois with her preteen daughter to access abortion services. The film received a nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

On the television front, Snow starred in the Fox drama series Almost Family from 2019 to 2020. In 2025, she appeared in the Hulu true crime docudrama miniseries Murdaugh: Death in the Family as journalist Mandy Matney, who investigated the crimes of Alex Murdaugh, and in the Netflix psychological thriller miniseries The Beast in Me as Nina Jarvis, the wife of a real estate magnate suspected of murdering his previous wife. She currently stars in the Netflix drama series The Hunting Wives alongside Malin Akerman, playing Sophie, a woman who relocates from Boston to East Texas and becomes entangled in both an affair and a murder investigation.

Beyond her performance career, Snow is a co-founder of the Love Is Louder movement, a project of the nonprofit Jed Foundation that addresses bullying, body image, discrimination, and depression across schools, campuses, and communities. In 2015, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration recognized her work in mental health advocacy with a Special Recognition Voice Award. Together with Jaspre Guest, she co-founded the nonprofit September Letters, an organization dedicated to mental health awareness that encourages people to share personal stories through anonymous communication. The two launched a companion collections book, also titled September Letters, on May 23, 2023.