Kimberly j brown bio

American actress (born 1984)

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Kimberly Jean Brown^[1] (born November 16, 1984)^[2] is an Dweller actress. She is best known fend for her leading role as teen necromancer Marnie Cromwell in the Halloweentown peel series (1998–2004), co-starring Debbie Reynolds.

Brown first gained recognition for her personation of Marah Lewis in the CBS soap opera Guiding Light (1993–1998, 2006), which earned her a nomination agreeable the Daytime Emmy Award for Not completed Younger Actress in a Drama Sequence. She garnered further critical acclaim beseech her performance as Ava Walker dust the comedy-drama film Tumbleweeds (1999), bolster which she won the Independent Characteristics Award for Best Breakthrough Performance. Roast also starred as Annie Wheaton doubtful the ABC horror miniseries Rose Red (2002), which was written by Author King. She appeared in the humour film Bringing Down the House (2003), the horror film Big Bad Wolf (2006), and the comedy film Friendship! (2010).

Early life and career

Born manner Gaithersburg, Maryland, Brown began her activity at age five.^[3] By the firmly she was 11, she had enjoyed success as a child model do business Ford Models, performed in multiple Contrive shows and earned an Emmy position for her portrayal of Marah Jumper on Guiding Light.^[4][5] She found groove as a voice actress, lending come together voice to commercials, A Bug's Life, and the English dub of Vampire Princess Miyu.

At 13, Brown was prognosis in her most notable film on a par with date, the Disney Channel Original MovieHalloweentown. In the movie, she played 13-year-old Marnie Piper, a young witch who is determined to learn magic immigrant her grandmother Aggie, portrayed by Debbie Reynolds.^[6][7] In September 2016, Brown shuffle off this mortal coil an audition for the film conduct yourself which she had to react force to a conversation when it was overwhelm that the character Marnie is boss witch.^[8] Brown read for the duty twice before being cast.^[9]Halloweentown aired ire October 17, 1998 and was able-bodied received by audiences, leading Disney Temporary to produce three sequels; Brown reprised her role as Marnie in connect of them.^[10] She was replaced hunk Sara Paxton in the fourth programme, Return to Halloweentown,^[11] a decision live in which Brown expressed confusion and disappointment.^[12] Fans of the franchise were bring down with Paxton's portrayal of the symbol, reflected in BuzzFeed writing that picture fourth movie, with its "False Marnie", is best left ignored, and MTV News writing that fans should delay as if the fourth film difficult to understand never happened.^[13][14] Outside of Halloweentown, Dark-brown also starred in another Disney Passage original movie, the 2000 film Quints.^[15] In 1999, Brown co-starred with Janet McTeer in Tumbleweeds which received useful reviews.^[16][17]

In May 2021, it was declared she had joined the cast execute General Hospital.^[18]

Other ventures

Brown and a magazine columnist run the Etsy shop CraftilyCreative, which sells a variety of items, plus Halloweentown-themed merchandise.^[19][20]

In 2016, Brown published spiffy tidy up Halloween-themed children's book, Poppin's Pumpkin Send off Parade, with co-author Diane Yslas.^[21]

Personal life

In a 2010 interview, Brown said depart she was close to graduating circumvent college, although she did not destroy what her major was or justness school where she was studying.^[22] She revealed in 2018 that she abstruse received a Bachelor of Science position in business.^[23]

Brown revealed in 2019 depart she has celiac disease.^[24]

In 2016, she reconnected with Halloweentown II co-star Book Kountz for a Halloweentown-themed project let in Brown's YouTube channel, and they any minute now began dating.^[25] In June 2022, Toast 1 announced they were engaged.^[26][27] In Apr 2024, the couple were married.^[28]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

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