Today we’d like to introduce you to Brittany Christine.
Brittany, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
Guess you could say I kinda grew up around it in the beginning. I can remember as a little girl, seeing my Grandmother Ruby on the front page of the local newspaper with all the beautiful Daffodil Princesses in their crowns, shaking her finger and head down from an overlooking balcony, filled with giggly girls, at a group of boys that had gathered, as if saying, “not so fast, oh no you don’t!” as they held up and threw upward, bouquets of flowers to the teen girlies competing for that year’s title. She was the Queen mother of the Sumner Washington pageants and parades when my Dad and his siblings grew up. This meant teaching etiquette classes to the ladies in waiting for the title, and in this particular articles case, turning the boys away while the girls prepared for the big day. It looked so glamorous, like something out of a real-life fairy tale and I heard many funny stories from her time helping the models and events. My Aunt Chris was also in the comp, and then there was my Mother who did larger regional competitions like Miss Washington and Vegas, after winning Miss Kent. I guess the model world was so normal to me at such a young age, that the only thing surprising about me moving to California to pursue it at 18, was that I was going the other route by doing the agent and business side of things first. After graduating high school, I decided to put college on hold to head to San Diego to work for a family friend’s talent agency. I began first as Head of Human Resources, then became a booking rep, and ended as talent. I learned so much valuable information in that time from sitting in on meetings, taking calls for the Owners, and hearing what goes on during the casting process, that it made things MUCH easier and more realistic to move forward in my life long career.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
My course was bumpy & very spread out. I’ve been on Billboards in my hometown of Seattle and walked intercontinental catwalks-but if you saw me on the street you would never have guessed I was the same girl. My look, weight, age, size have always fluctuated pretty much 2004 onward. I battled with type 2 diabetes for nearly ten years. I had thyroid issues that I had to take medicine for many years under close watch before stabilizing with trials, exercise, and diet. I made jokes that I was “eating my emotions” but wasn’t really kidding. I struggled with my looks because even at my youngest and thinnest they still changed so often, and so much of me in the final product of what was used for campaigns got so far tweaked that I didn’t see me anymore when I looked at a magazine. They made my eyes bigger, nose smaller, neck longer, just as some examples. If I wasn’t good enough as-is in my prime, then how could I keep it up with more years and health issues added on? Those were some of the things I would ask and tell myself before castings and auditions, thinking, “why am I even going” or “why am I even here” when there are so many more capable and qualified healthy women in the room who don’t have any of the problems I do. Due to this stuff, there were many gaps between bookings for me. But whenever that would happen I would use the time to pursue something else like studying International Business overseas, (for adventure) Recreational Sport and Fitness, (for wellness) Stunts, (for excitement) Acting, (to get out my emotions) I even took a Project Management course in my late 20’s because I knew I wanted to run some sort of set someday, and was always planning for that future even when what I was going through in that current time, was feeling like a failure. There are so many ways to overcome your obstacles and challenges, sometimes it really is just as simple as not worrying or focusing on them!
We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know?
I work for Peak Models in Print, Fit, & Runway. MPM Models for Corporate, Commercial, & Sports and Specialty. Big Fish for Voice Over, Presenting, & Theatrical, and MMM Talent for Westerns, Period Pieces, & trained Animal work. I feel very lucky to have so many hardworking, like-minded, driven, female agents. It just makes things more comfortable when discussing regular life stuff on top of work, especially when planning my itinerary for meetings. Each gal inspires me in different ways and reasons. Although all are different companies and genres/fields, (hence the reason I have that many agencies, none of them cover all the divisions and regions I used to be in before coming to LA and still work in) every opportunity received from each helps my resume and portfolio grow in ways that make me marketable for all. In acting, I specialize in comedy. In stunt work, I specialize in cars. In voice I specialize in narrating, in modeling I specialize in girl next door/your everyday girl. I’ve learned over the years what my natural assets, skills and talents are and decided hey, why not nurture and explore those rather than trying to correct or perfect all the things I’m not good at?
I’m most proud of my background and range. I like that I can cry on command, believably act a fool, burst into flames for an action scene, or drip sex appeal when it calls for it, yet could play a bubbly mom at the same time. (Should that role exist I’m your gal Hollywood hahaha) There are so many different layers to me as a person because of my upbringing and back story, that it doesn’t take drastic leaps to get to those places in a character. How many teens do you know that had traveled to over 200 cities by the age of 21? (It helped that my Mother was a Flight Attendant) Lived in other countries for months and years at a time with no family, friends, contacts or help there? The reason I can become whatever role given is because 9 times out of 10, I’ve already done it in real life. I’ve worked day jobs that are so random, you wouldn’t believe they even existed. I was a spy in Australia an entire summer for example. And sure I did some glamorous Playboy stuff in my 20’s but then after a bad breakup, I went and drove a street sweeper working in a lumber yard for a winter. Why? Why not? No job is above or beneath me. If I can do it I will! And at 5’10 there’s lots I can reach and lift, I’m just bigger than your average girl so I’d rather utilize that, than try to shrink. I love being able to say, “I did that!” instead of, “I could do that,” or, “I want to do that.” or, “I’d never do that.” I’ve always been very curious and eager to experiment. My biggest saying to everyone is, “I’ll try anything twice…once to see if I like it, and the second time to make sure I did or didn’t” That’s what sets me apart from the rest.
Is there a characteristic or quality that you feel is essential to success?
For me personally, it’s being reliable/dependable. I feel like in this town and industry especially, there are so many flakes who are still somehow constantly working. Then there are others whom are working their butts off trying to do anything and everything they possibly can just to get the chance to be working- yet can’t find or create those same opportunities. And if given to them, they wouldn’t be taken for granted. While pursuing my front of the camera career, I’ve always worked many odd jobs as film crew behind the camera as well. We’re talking everything from craft service, to driving a grip truck for set. What makes me feel successful is when people thank me for being so professional no matter how small the role or pay. I treat every set the same way I did when working on multi million dollar TV shows + movies back home and overseas. And I genuinely enjoy it, no matter what I’m doing it really doesn’t feel like work, even after 15 years I feel lucky every time I step foot on a set! But I’m new to LA, so I don’t know many here in the biz yet. Therefor I’m happy to prove my value in work ethic if someone takes a chance on me! I know 2020 has already slowed things down if not completely put things on hold in entertainment, but when things pick up again, I’m ready to hit the ground running!
Contact Info:
- Phone: 661-993-5395
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: brittanychristine.com,
Internet Movie Database: imdb.me/brittanychristine
Modeling: lacasting.com/BrittanyChristineModel
Stunts: lacasting.com/BrittanyChristineAthlete
VO & Acting: castingnetworks.com/ActressVoiceArtist - Facebook: /THEBRITTSTA
- Instagram: @officiallybrittanychristine
- Other: Linked In: /actressbrittanychristine, Vimeo: /actressbrittanychristine, Youtube: /britters2007, Casting Frontier: Brittany_Christine, Actors Access: https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/brittanychristine
(for AUS, NZ, & UK) SN: https://www.starnow.com/brittanychristine/
Regional Agents: Los Angeles: Taylor Boyd 818 889 8800 [email protected]
Sports & Specialty: Debbie Harrison 818 479 1446 [email protected]
Seattle: Melissa Baldauff 877 424 4347 [email protected]
Montana: Jeannie Monical 406 580 6669 [email protected]
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