Elizabeth Gillies Biography

Elizabeth Egan "Liz" Gillies (born July 26, 1993) is an American actress and singer. She appeared in several television series and commercials, before acquiring her first significant role prior to her 17th birthday, playing Jade West on the television series Victorious. She made her Broadway debut at age 15 in the musical 13, playing the character of Lucy. She has a main role in FX's rock 'n' roll comedy series Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll.

Career

Acting

Elizabeth Gillies was born in Haworth, New Jersey and is partially of Italian descent. She started her acting career at age twelve when she went to a local open casting call and began appearing in commercials for companies such as Virgin Mobile. Her first television role was as a recurring character in The Black Donnellys. She appeared in three episodes. She later starred in The Clique as Shelby Wexler and had a supporting role in Harold. In the summer of 2008, she was cast as Lucy in a Godspeed production of Jason Robert Brown's new musical about growing up, 13, with 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. 13 ran through January 4, 2009.

Gillies starred in the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious as Jade West. The show premiered on March 27, 2010, and ended on February 2, 2013. A doll of her character was released in 2012. Gillies also voiced Daphne on the animated series Winx Club, and recorded Winx Club's official song, "We Are Believix." She has guest starred in White Collar and Big Time Rush, and was a contestant on the Nickelodeon game shows BrainSurge and Figure It Out. In January 2014, Gillies reprised her role as Jade West in the one-hour episode special of the spin-off series of Victorious and iCarly, Sam and Cat, titled "The Killer Tuna Jump." Gillies was in 3 episodes of the Black Donnellys as Young Jenny also as fans say she was in The Death and The Return of Superman. in 2008 Liz appeared in "battery s down" as well as Jawbreaker The Musical in 2014. She had small roles in White Collar and The Exes.

Gillies appeared in the horror film Animal, which was filmed in Manchester, Connecticut and can currently be seen on iTunes. Produced by Drew Barrymore, the film co-stars her Winx Club co-star, Keke Palmer, and was released on June 17, 2014. As of December 2013, Gillies was in the process of working on another film entitled "Killing Daddy". It aired on Lifetime on July 5, 2014.

In 2015, Gillies was cast in the comedy series Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll as Gigi, an aspiring singer and daughter of a former rock star. The show premiered July 16, 2015.

Music

Gillies has appeared in several songs on the soundtracks Victorious (soundtrack) and Victorious 2.0, including Give It Up (duet with Ariana 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.

Gillies has a YouTube account called LizGilliesOfficial, where she uploads covers of popular songs including: "Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones, "You and I" by Lady Gaga, "For No One" by The Beatles, "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon, "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens and "One and Only" by Adele. She has also covered songs with Max Schneider ("Somewhere Only We Know") and Ariana Grande ("The Christmas Song").

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

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

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Harold	Evelyn Taylor
2008	'	Shelby Wexler	Direct-to-video
2011	'	Eradicator folks	Short film
2012	Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom	Daphne (voice)	English dub
2014	Animal	Mandy
2015	Vacation	Heather

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	'	Young Jenny	3 episodes
2009	'	Bat Mitzvah guest	Episode: "Bad Bad News"
2010-13	Victorious	Jade West	Main role; 57 episodes
2011	iCarly	Jade West	Episode: "iParty with Victorious"
2011	Big Time Rush	Heather Fox	Episode: "Big Time Secret"
2011-15	Winx Club	Daphne	Voice role; 24 episodes
2012	White Collar	Chloe Woods	Episode: "Upper West Side Story"
2013	'	Tracy Cooper	Episode: "Prelude to a Kiss"
2014	Sam & Cat	Jade West	Episode: "#TheKillerTunaJump: #Freddie #Jade #Robbie"
2014	Killing Daddy	Callie Ross	Television film
2015	American Dad!	Lena Horne	Voice role; episode: "A Star is Born"
2015-16	Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll	Gigi	Main role; 20 episodes
2015	'	Singer	Voice role; episode: "The Penguin Who Loved Me"
2017	Yin Yang Yo	Smoke	Main role

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
2010	"Freak the Freak Out"	Victoria Justice
2011	"Beggin' on Your Knees"	Victoria Justice
2011	"All I Want Is Everything"	Victoria Justice
2011	"Take a Hint"	Victoria Justice and herself
2011	"Time in the Day"	Mickey Deleasa
2012	"Time of Our Life"	Big Time Rush
2012	"Make It in America"	Victoria Justice
2012	"We Are Believix"	Herself
2012	"You Don't Know Me"	Herself
2013	"Right There"	Ariana Grande
2015	"Die Trying"	Herself
2016	"Bang Bang"	Herself
2017	"We Are Believix"	Herself

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008-09	13	Lucy	Original Broadway cast
2013	Jawbreaker: The Musical	Courtney	Workshop reading

Discography

Singles

As featured artist

List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Album
		UK
"Santa Baby" (Ariana Grande featuring Liz Gillies)	2013	155	Christmas Kisses

Promotional singles

List of promotional singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name

Title	Year	Peak chart positions		Album
		US	US Bub.
"Give It Up" (With Ariana Grande)	2011	"?	23	Victorious
"Take a Hint" (with Victoria Justice)	2012	"?	"?	Victorious 2.0