Elizabeth Gillies

Elizabeth Egan Gillies (born July 26, 1993 ) is an American actress and singer.

Elizabeth Egan Gillies was born in Haworth, New Jersey, on July 26, 1993, to Dave and Lorrie Gillies.

She has one younger brother (b. 1996).

Gillies has stated that she has Irish ancestry, and an Italian grandmother and great-grandmother.

She left high school in her freshman year to pursue acting and participated in an online high school program.

Gillies' acting career began at age 12 when she started going to local open casting calls.

She quickly began appearing in commercials for companies such as Virgin Mobile.

Gillies' first television role was as a recurring character in three episodes of The Black Donnellys.

She has stated that she was not allowed to watch the finished show in its entirety because her parents felt it was not appropriate for her at the time.

She made her first television appearance in The Black Donnellys (2007), later starring as Jade West in the Nickelodeon series Victorious (2010–2013).

In 2008, she played small roles in The Clique, Harold, and Locker 514.

That year she was also cast as Lucy in a Goodspeed production of Jason Robert Brown's new musical 13, alongside her future Victorious co-star, Ariana Grande.

Later that year, 13 moved to Broadway, which made it the first Broadway production to have a cast and band entirely made up of teenagers.

Gillies remained with the production until its closure on January 4, 2009.

She gained prominence for her starring roles as Jade West in the Nickelodeon series Victorious (2010–2013), and as Fallon Carrington on The CW reboot of Dynasty (2017–2022).

Gillies made her Broadway debut at age 15 in the musical 13, playing the character of Lucy.

In 2010, Gillies was cast as bad girl and occasional antagonist Jade West in the Nickelodeon television show Victorious, a sitcom revolving around teenagers at a performing arts high school in Hollywood, which marked her second time working alongside 13 co-star Grande.

Regarding her Victorious character, Gillies said "It's wonderful. I love playing Jade. I always say she's not so much the 'mean' girl, but the 'bad' girl in so many ways. She has a lot of human qualities to her – she's not just completely sociopathic. She's sweet with her boyfriend. It's nice to play a character with some depth."

The show premiered on March 27, 2010.

During her time on Victorious, Gillies was featured in several songs on the soundtracks Victorious and Victorious 2.0, including "Give It Up" (duet with Grande), and "Take a Hint" (duet with Victoria Justice).

She also wrote and recorded the song "You Don't Know Me" for an episode of Victorious, and it was later featured in Victorious 3.0.

She lent her talents to other Nick shows, voicing the character of Daphne on the Nickelodeon revival of Winx Club and recording Winx Club's official song, "We Are Believix".

She also appeared in an episode of Big Time Rush and as a contestant on BrainSurge and Figure It Out.

She provided the voice of Daphne in Nickelodeon's Winx Club (2011–2014), and she had a main role in the FX comedy series Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2015–2016).

Gillies made her debut as a singer on Victorious with the song "Give It Up" in 2011, singing alongside Ariana Grande.

She released other songs while on the show, including "You Don't Know Me" and "Take a Hint", singing alongside Victoria Justice, both songs being part of the Victorious soundtrack.

Her debut album, We Wish You the Merriest, a collection of Christmas duets with Seth MacFarlane, was released in November 2023.

Beginning in 2012, Gillies began playing small guest roles outside Nickelodeon.

Notable appearances include White Collar and The Exes.

In July 2012, it was reported that Gillies was working on an alternative rock album.

Victorious ended on February 2, 2013, after four seasons.

Following the cancellation of the series, Gillies took some time off from acting.

In 2013, she was cast as Courtney in the musical adaptation of Jawbreaker and participated in a reading of the show in Manhattan.

The musical did not end up being taken to Broadway.

On December 10, 2013, Gillies recorded a duet of "Santa Baby" with Grande for the latter's Christmas Kisses EP.

Animal was filmed in the summer of 2013 in Manchester, Connecticut, and was produced by Drew Barrymore.

She has also appeared in various feature and television films, including the horror film Animal (2014), the television film Killing Daddy (2014), the comedy film Vacation (2015), and the black comedy thriller film Arizona (2018).

In 2014, Gillies appeared in the horror film Animal as Mandy and the Lifetime movie Killing Daddy, playing Callie Ross.

The film also features Gillies' former Winx Club co-star Keke Palmer and was released on iTunes June 17, 2014.

Gillies starred as billionaire heiress and energy executive Fallon Carrington in The CW's series Dynasty (2017–2022), a reboot of the 1980s series of the same name.