Victoria Dawn Justice {born February 19 1993} is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She debuted as an actress at the age of 10 and has since appeared in several films and television series including the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 and Victorious. She has made appearances in several theatrical releases including Unknown as well as the 2006 thriller The Garden. She has appeared in several Nickelodeon series including True Jackson VP The Troop The Penguins of Madagascar and iCarly as well as on the Nickelodeon game shows BrainSurge and Figure It Out as a contestant. In 2010 she starred in the Nickelodeon film The Boy Who Cried Werewolf.
Aside from acting Justice is involved in her musical career. She has performed several songs for the soundtrack to the Nickelodeon musical Spectacular! in which she starred. She has recorded a number of songs for the Victorious series. Justice has announced the release of her debut album which is expected to be released sometime during 2015.
Zoey 101 and films:
Justice began her acting career when she was 10 years old when she made a guest appearance on the Gilmore Girls episode 'The Hobbit the Sofa and Digger Stiles'. Justice portrayed Jill No. 2 in a walk-on role.After her appearance in the series her family moved to Los Angeles when Justice stated she wanted a career in acting. The following year Justice guest starred on the second episode of the Disney channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody in which she played a young pageant contestant named Rebecca. Later Justice was awarded a role in the 2005 drama-thriller Mary. Justice portrayed the role of Stella a young girl who begins seeing visions of Mary Magdalene.[10] The film debuted at 2005 Venice Film Festival before being showed at several other Festivals including the 2005 Toronto Film Festival Deauville Film Festival and the San Sebastián International Film Festival. During the same year Justice was awarded a main role in the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101 as Lola Martinez a new student who is also an aspiring actress. When she found out she had earned the role she said 'I was extremely happy; I was bouncing up and down and screaming. That was a really great moment.'[13] The season 2 episode that introduced Justice's character debuted on September 11 2005. Justice also had roles in two other films that year. She had a cameo appearance in the R-rated film When Do We Eat? as well as earning the role of Rose in the Hallmark television film Silver Bells the following of which has become a Hallmark Hall of Fame film.
In 2006 while filming episodes for Zoey 101 Justice made a guest appearance on an episode of the series Everwood in the episode 'Enjoy the Ride'. Justice made her theatrical film debut that year when she was given a cameo role in the film Unknown. The film was a financial failure and received mixed reviews from critics. Also in 2006 Justice played the supporting role of Holly in the thriller film The Garden. The film was met with negative reviews from critics. Justice focused on the third and fourth seasons of Zoey 101 in 2007 and 2008. Those were the years when it was coming to a close. Justice released a promotional single midway through 2007 while she was still filming Zoey 101. The song was a cover of the Vanessa Carlton song 'A Thousand Miles'. May 2 2008 saw the airing of the final episode of the series. In 2009 she announced plans to guest star on an episode of Nickelodeon's series The Naked Brothers Band. The TV special titled Valentine Dream Date featured Justice portraying herself. Justice made no plans of going back into the recording studio until 2009 when she starred in the Nickelodeon musical Spectacular!. Justice's character performs three songs during the course of the film. Justice starred alongside Nolan Funk and Simon Curtis in the musical film which aired on Nickelodeon on February 16 2009. The film has become one of Nickelodeon's most popular movies attracting an audience 3.7 million viewers on its premiere night. The film received a generally positive review from several critics holding a 76% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of 2011.
After the success of The Naked Brothers Band special in which Justice guest starred she appeared in another episode 'The Premiere' on April 11 2009. She later appeared episodes of iCarly True Jackson VP and The Troop and on the game show BrainSurge. Justice announced in 2009 that she would be working on a thriller film set for theatrical release. It was later announced the film would feature Dylan Sprouse and Cole Sprouse. Unlike initial plans of a theatrical release the film had a limited preview release on December 12 2009 and was returned to post production. Despite this the film's worldwide release was canceled.
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