Brittany Allen
☼ Born on 5 December (year unknown), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
BiographyBrittany Allen is a multi-disciplinary artist: an Emmy-winning actor and film composer. Raised in Toronto, Canada, Allen first moved to the US when she was cast as a regular on All My Children. She went on to win an Emmy for her role. Allen later became known for her chameleon-like ability to transform, in projects such as The Boys, What Keeps You Alive, Prodigy and It Stains The Sands Red.
Allen's first theatrical score was for the critically acclaimed film What Keeps You Alive. She has since gone on to score for American Horror Stories, Two Sentence Horror Stories, Torn Hearts (Blumhouse); Scrambled (Lionsgate). She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and frequent collaborator, filmmaker Colin Minihan and their son.
In the role of actor
The Prodigy (07/02/2019)
A woman is disturbed by her eight year old son’s increasingly violent behaviour in The Prodigy. One night, a woman named Margaret St. James (Brittany Allen) escapes from the clutches of serial killer Edward Scarka (Paul Fauteux), who is then gunned down by police. At the same time, expecting mother Sarah (Taylor Schilling) goes into labor […]
Dead Before Dawn 3D (18/02/2013)
The closing film of the TIFF Next Wave Film Festival for Youth was the official North American premiere of this Canadian horror-comedy, which put a twist on the overused zombie apocalypse premise. The film is notable for the fact that it is the first Canadian film to be shot in stereoscopic 3D (more on that […]
The Box (07/11/2009)
Even though I had to put up with noisy teens during the film today, I still found The Box to be an intriguing morality tale. I really liked how the film was shot to look visual like it was a film from the 70s (where the film takes place). The film is unmistakably by Richard […]