Felicia Day
Born	Kathryn Felicia Day (1979-06-28) June 28, 1979 (age 32)[1] Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress/Writer/Singer
Years active	2001-present
Website
http://www.feliciaday.com/

Kathryn Felicia Day^[2] (born on June 28, 1979^[1]) is an American actress and singer, known for her work as "Vi" on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and for parts in movies such as Bring It On Again and June, as well as the Internet musical, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Day is also the star, script writer and producer of the original web series The Guild, a show loosely based on her life as a gamer. She also starred in the Dragon Age web series Dragon Age: Redemption, which she wrote. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Academy of Web Television.^[3]

Personal life and education[link]

Day began her acting career at the age of 7 when she starred as Scout in a local production of To Kill a Mockingbird. She studied operatic singing and ballet professionally, performing at concerts and competitions nationwide. Home-schooled throughout much of her childhood, she began college at the age of 16.^[4]

She was a National Merit Scholar (1995)^[5] and graduated as valedictorian of her class. ^[4][6] An accomplished violinist,^[4] Day was accepted to the Juilliard School of Music but chose to attend the University of Texas at Austin on a full scholarship in violin performance. She double majored in mathematics and music performance.^[7][6]

Day is an avid player of a wide variety of video game genres. Much of her work on The Guild web series was based on her personal experience with video games.^[8]

Career[link]

Early career[link]

After graduation, Day moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. She landed several roles in various short and independent films, as well as commercials and guest spots on television shows, including Undeclared and Maybe It's Me. These parts propelled her to larger roles: a part in the film Bring It On Again, the starring role in June, and a recurring guest spot as potential Slayer Vi on television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a recurring role that is still occasionally utilized in that show's eighth season comic book series.

[edit] The Guild

Felicia Day

Day is the creator, writer, and star of The Guild, a web series which started airing its fifth season in July 2011. The first season was primarily hosted on YouTube where it garnered millions of views.^[9] Its second season premiered on Microsoft's three major video channels Xbox Live, MSN Video and The Zune Marketplace after Microsoft made a deal with The Guild, allowing Day, her cast, and her crew to be paid for their work. Day also created a song and music video called "(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar", featuring the cast dressed up as their in-game personae. The final moments of the music video itself also detailed that the release date for the 3rd season of Day's The Guild would be August 25, 2009. A second song and video "Game On" was released prior to the premiere of the 4th season of The Guild.

The Guild has won multiple awards, including the Greenlight Award for Best Original Digital Series Production at the South by Southwest festivals,^[10] the YouTube Video Award for Best Series,^[11] the Yahoo! Video Award for Best Series,^[12] and 2009 Streamy Awards for Best Comedy Web Series, Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series, and Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series.^[13]

Other work[link]

In July 2008, Day starred as Penny in the three-part web-based musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (created by Joss Whedon, who also created Firefly and Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which Day has a minor role as the potential slayer Vi during the seventh season).^[14] Day was featured as a patient in the episode "Not Cancer" of the medical drama House,^[15] and had a guest starring role in the sci-fi drama Dollhouse's unaired episode "Epitaph One",^[16] as well as its series finale "Epitaph Two."^[17] In 2008, Day was featured in a series of commercials for Sears.^[18][19] She also appeared in the first of the revitalized Cheetos commercials.^[20] In the series Lie to Me, on the episode called "Tractor Man", airing December 14, 2009, Day sang a song called "White Lie" alongside Brendan Hines.^{[citation needed]} Day starred in the Syfy film adaption of the saga Little Red Riding Hood, called Red;^[21] it was produced by Angela Mancuso.^[22] Day also played the continuing role of Dr. Holly Marten in the Syfy channel's original series, Eureka, appearing for 10 episodes until episode 2 of series 5.

Day also starred in Guild co-star Sandeep Parikh's web-series The Legend of Neil, in which she portrayed a Fairy. She sings in the second season musical episode, in which she obliquely references her history of internet musicals.

Day lent her voice to the character Veronica Santangelo in the video game Fallout: New Vegas.

In February 2011, Day announced that she would be starring in a new web miniseries. Called Dragon Age: Redemption, it is based on the Dragon Age video games made by BioWare^[23] and aired on October 10, 2011.^[24] She also voices the elf Tallis, the protagonist of the Dragon Age downloadable content "Mark of the Assassin".

In March 2012, Day announced that she would be launching a premium YouTube channel, "Geek & Sundry," on April 2. ^[25]

In April 2012 it was announced that Day will host the 2012 IndieCade Awards Ceremony on October 4th, 2012. ^[26]

On April 29, 2012 she also appeared on the YouTube show MyMusic as a Norwegian Black Metal singer named Gorgol^[27].

Awards[link]

In September 2008, TV Week included her in their list of Top 10 Web Video Creators.^[28]

During the inaugural Streamy Awards held in Los Angeles on March 28, 2009, Day received the award for the "Best Female Actor in a Comedy" for her work as protagonist Cyd Sherman in The Guild, and won the same award again in 2010.^[29] She was also recognized for her work on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in 2009.

Filmography[link]

TV series/internet productions[link]

Video games[link]

References[link]

Further Reading

• Schramm, Mike. (Aug. 24, 2009) BlizzCon 2009: WoW.com interviews Felicia Day. (part 2)