Danielle Harris

Danielle Andrea Harris (born June 1, 1977) is an American film and television actress, best known as a scream queen for her roles in various horror films, four of them in the Halloweenseries: in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers as Jamie Lloyd and in Halloween and Halloween II as Annie Brackett. Harris has also performed for the entire run of television series The Wild Thornberrys as Debbie Thornberry(1998–2004) and That's Life as Plum Wilkinson (2000–02).

Personal life

Harris was born in Daytona Beach, Florida and grew up in Queens, New York, raised by hersingle mother, Fran. She has a sister, Ashley. Harris is Jewish. In 1995, she was stalked by an obsessed fan, Christopher Small, who wrote letters threatening to kill her. Small was later arrested after bringing a shotgun and a teddy bear to her home. On January 29, 2007, Harris appeared on an episode of The Dr. Phil Show recounting the terrifying experience. The stalker was obsessed with her character Molly on the TV show Roseanne. In October 2009, Harris was granted a restraining order against Small, who began sending her messages onTwitter. The restraining order will expire in 2012.

Career

Early career and the Halloween series

Harris's family moved to Port Orange, Florida when she was in the fourth grade, and there she attended Spruce Creek Elementary School. Soon, however, winning a children's beauty contest led her to New York. In New York, Harris began her professional career by appearing intelevision commercials while maintaining an A average at PS 117 and PS 232 in Queens, New York.^{[citation needed]} Her first acting role soon followed in 1985, when she made her debut as Sammi Garretson on ABC's One Life to Live, a role she played for three years.

In 1988, she auditioned and was chosen (beating out Melissa Joan Hart) for the part of Jamie Lloyd, Michael Myers's niece, in the movieHalloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Just one year later, she would reprise the role in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. The character of Jamie returned in 1995 for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers but she did not participate due to disagreements regarding her character's fate on the script, also, an agreement for Harris's requested salary (actually less than she was paid for Halloween 4) could not be reached; J. C. Brandy ended up playing Jamie in the film. Harris would later return to the franchise in a different role, that of Annie Brackett, in Rob Zombie's Halloween, a 2007 re-imagining of John Carpenter's 1978 original. In the remake, she had nudity for a sex scene and her ordeal with Michael Myers, a first in her career. She stated "[It] is something that I wanted to do because everyone's like, 'Oh, she's little Jamie. She's 14.' And it's like, no, actually, I'm 30. It's something that I've never done before." She reprised her role in Zombie's Halloween II, released August 28, 2009.

From child star to scream queen

Following her first set of Halloween appearances, Harris's credits include the films Marked for Death (1990) alongside Steven Seagal, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) with Christina Applegate, City Slickers (1991), The Last Boy Scout (1991) alongside Bruce Willis andDamon Wayans, Free Willy (1993), Daylight (1996) alongside Sylvester Stallone, Wish Upon a Star (1996), portraying two characters along with Katherine Heigl, and her first horror film since her Halloween beginnings, Urban Legend (1998). She has also appeared on numeroustelevision episodes, with a recurring role on the sitcom Roseanne during the 1992-93 season (as Roseanne's neighbor Molly), plus special appearances on Boy Meets World, Diagnosis: Murder, Charmed, ER and Cold Case, among others. She was a supporting player for the two-year run of CBS drama That's Life, the voice of Debbie Thornberry on the animated series The Wild Thornberrys, which ran for five seasons, and the voice of Sierra, the adolescent lioness in the short-lived CGI series Father of the Pride. Her character of Debbie Thornberry has appeared outside of television, in the animated films The Wild Thornberrys Movie and Rugrats Go Wild

More recent projects, around the time and following her second set of Halloween appearances, include the films Debating Robert Lee, Race You to the Bottom (an Outfest prizewinner) and the Halloween-themed Left for Dead, as well as an appearance in the music video for the song "The Bleeding", by Five Finger Death Punch. She also starred alongside Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, AFI's Davey Havok, andBattlestar Galactica's Nicki Clyne in the "illustrated film" series Godkiller. She hosted Route 666: America's Scariest Home Haunts onFEARnet.

Harris's genre credits have continued to increase. Her films Godkiller and Blood Night saw DVD releases in late 2009. Fear Clinic, a FEARnet.com original web series, featuring Harris as well as Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, and Lisa Wilcox, made its debut the week ofHalloween 2009, and Danielle Harris's own upcoming horror resources website, horrorgal.com, was announced. She can also be seen as Felicia Freeze in the humorous superhero film Super Capers, and alongside Robert Patrick in The Black Waters of Echo's Pond. She worked in Jim Mickle's second feature film the vampire movie Stake Land, and Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D which is directed by Zebediah de Soto. On December 3, 2009 Harris confirmed a lead in the horror film Hatchet II taking over Tamara Feldman's role of Marybeth, which was subsequently released October 1, 2010. She is set to star in William Forsythe's directorial debut, the vampire thrillerNew Blood.

She has been the cover feature of such horror/glamour publications as Girls and Corpses and Gorezone magazine. Conventions and horror film events often include her as a guest star, among them the Creation Entertainment Weekend of Horrors of May 2010.

  































































































































Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers	Jamie Lloyd
1989	Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers	Jamie Lloyd
1990	Marked for Death	Tracey
1991	Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead	Melissa Crandell
1991	City Slickers	Classroom student
1991	The Last Boy Scout	Darian Hallenbeck
1993	Free Willy	Gwenie
1996	Shattered Image	Susan
1996	Back to Back	Chelsea Malone
1996	Daylight	Ashley Crighton
1998	Dizzyland	Lulu
1998	Urban Legend	Tosh Guaneri
1999	Goosed	Young Charlene Silver
2000	Poor White Trash	Suzi
2001	Killer Bud	Barbie
2002	The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Debbie Thornberry (voice)
2003	Rugrats Go Wild	Debbie Thornberry (voice)
2004	Debating Robert Lee	Liz Bronner
2004	Em & Me	Emily
2005	Race You to the Bottom	Carla
2007	Halloween	Annie Brackett
2007	Left for Dead	Nancy
2008	Burying the Ex	Olivia	Short film
2008	Prank		Segment director
2009	Super Capers	Felicia Freeze
2009	Halloween II	Annie Brackett
2009	Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet	Alissa
2009	The Black Waters of Echo's Pond	Kathy
2010	Godkiller	Halfpipe (voice)
2010	Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer	Maria Consolo
2010	Hatchet II	Marybeth[18]
2010	Stake Land	Belle[19]	Post-production
2011	The Victim	Mary	Post-production
2011	Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D	Barbara (voice)	Post-production
2011	The Trouble with the Truth	Jenny	Filming
2011	ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2[20]		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985–1987	One Life to Live	Samantha 'Sami' Garretson	TV series
1987	Spenser: For Hire	Tara	Episode: "Thanksgiving"
1991	Don't Touch My Daughter	Dana Hemmings	TV movie
1991	The Killing Mind	Young Isobel	TV movie
1991	Eerie, Indiana	Melanie Monroe	Episode: "Heart on a Chain"
1991	Growing Pains	Susie Maxwell	Episode: "The Big Fix"
1992	1775	Abby Proctor	TV short
1992–1993	Roseanne	Molly Tilden	7 episodes
1993	The Woman Who Loved Elvis	Priscilla 'Cilla' Jackson	TV movie
1993	Jack's Place	Jennifer	Episode: "True Love Ways"
1994	The Commish	Sheri Fisher	Episode: "Romeo and Juliet"
1994	Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography	Jessica Pentland	TV movie
1994	Boy Meets World	Theresa 'T.K.' Keiner	Episode: "Sister Theresa"
1996	Wish Upon a Star	Hayley Wheaton/Alexia Wheaton	TV movie
1997	High Incident		Episode: "Camino High"
1997	ER	Laura Quentin	Episode: "Something New" Episode: "Friendly Fire"
1997	Brooklyn South	Willow Mortner	Episode: "Clown Without Pity"
1998	Brooklyn South	Willow Mortner	Episode: "Tears on My Willow"
1998	Diagnosis: Murder	Noelle Andrews	Episode: "An Education in Murder"
1998	Charmed	Aviva	Episode: "The Fourth Sister"
1998–2004	The Wild Thornberrys	Debbie Thornberry (voice)	91 episodes
1999	Hard Time: Hostage Hotel	Justine Sinclair	TV movie
2000–2002	That's Life	Plum Wilkinson	28 episodes
2001	The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie	Debbie Thornberry (voice)	TV movie
2002	The West Wing	Kiki	Episode: "20 Hours in America"
2003	The Partners	Leila	TV movie
2004–2005	Father of the Pride	Sierra (voice)	12 episodes
2005	Cold Case	Gina Carroll	Episode: "Yo, Adrian"
2009	Fear Clinic	Susan	5 episodes
2010	Psych	Tonya	Episode: "Feet Don't Kill Me Now"

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