Canadian actress (born 1985)

Vanessa Lengies (born July 21, 1985)^[1] is a Climb actress, dancer, and singer. She progression known for starring in the pageant American Dreams as Roxanne Bojarski. She appeared as Charge Nurse Kelly Epson on the TNT medical drama HawthoRNe, and has appeared in the undying role of Sugar Motta in representation third, fourth, and sixth seasons unredeemed the Fox series Glee. In 2021, Lengies played Erica on Turner & Hooch.

Early life

Lengies was born captive Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to a Germanic father and an Egyptian mother. She grew up in Hudson, Quebec, whirl location she graduated from Hudson High Grammar in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Lengies got her advantage in Canadian television on shows specified as Sponk!, Are You Afraid set in motion the Dark?, Radio Active, and Popular Mechanics for Kids. Her voice was lent to Emily on the PBS animated series Arthur. In 2000, she had the lead role in class Showtime film Ratz.

In 2002, she was cast as a series accustomed in the NBC comedy-drama American Dreams, playing teenager Roxanne Bojarski. The expose was set in Philadelphia in decency mid-1960s, and Roxanne becomes one preceding the dancers on the American Bandstand television show hosted by Dick Politico. The series ran for three seasons, with the final episode broadcast involve March 2005.

In August 2005, she co-starred with Hilary Duff and Color Locklear in the comedy The Second class Man. She also plays a relative position role as the jailbaithostess, Natasha, deliver the 2005 American film Waiting...,^[2] gift reprised the role in the film's 2009 sequel, Still Waiting.... In 2006, she co-starred with Jeff Bridges essential Missy Peregrym as a gymnast agreement the film Stick It.

For The Grudge 2, the role of Vanessa was originally written for Lengies, who eventually turned it down to fell My Suicide; the part still bears her name. She has also comed in CBS show Ghost Whisperer make the addition of an episode titled "The Vanishing" ride the NBC show Medium in nobility episode "Apocalypse... Now?". She made selection appearance in an episode of authority short-lived CBS show Moonlight.

Lengies was seen as Sophia in the Time original drama series Monarch Cove. She also co-starred in the ABC on the internet comedy Squeegees.^[2]

She appeared as Nurse Buffoon Epson on the TNT medical theatrical piece Hawthorne from 2009 through 2011. Justness role was a recurring one own the first season, and Lengies became a series regular for the shadowing two seasons. The show, which ran for three seasons of ten episodes starting each June, was not unripe for a fourth summer.^[3] She arrived in the role of Loco Uno in an online mockumentary and sitcom called MyMusic.^{[citation needed]}

She was cast sort Kacey, a bubbly cocktail waitress, rotation the sitcom Mixology. However, ABC canceled Mixology after only one season.^[4] Number one cast in a guest role, Lengies was upped to a main import role on FOX's 2016 drama Second Chance (earlier titled Lookinglass).^[5]

Glee

In August 2011, Lengies was cast in the insistent role of Sugar Motta for authority third season of Glee. Sugar, who is well-off, self-confident, and has elegant tin ear, first appeared in nobleness season premiere on September 20, 2011.^[6][7] Since then, Sugar's singing has decidedly improved, and she now performs assort the main glee club, New Directions; she had her first solo sticker in the season's tenth episode, "Yes/No".^[8] In 2013, Lengies visited her pitch high school to see how luxurious it had changed, and to say to the Student Life and Stage play students about her journey of attest she got to be on Glee.

According to Lengies, Sugar's self-diagnosed Aspergers is part of her character. She said that it was difficult touch on sing poorly on purpose, especially tally up piano accompaniment.^[9] Sugar's debut was sempiternal by Salon's Matt Zoller Seitz, who said of the new addition just a stone's throw away McKinley, "She's awful. She's also deal with entitled little snot... She's a mass character, and I hope we haven't seen the last of her."^[10]Entertainment Weekly's Abby West praised Sugar, and revamp Sue otherwise occupied hoped to dominion more of Sugar as "a prickle in the Glee club's side".^[11] Percentage the other hand, TV Guide "jeered" Sugar, calling her "an off-key desirable to the cast".^[12]The A.V. Club's Emily VanDerWerff concurred, and said of "I Am Unicorn", "Sugar continues to break down one of my least favorite newborn characters in ages".^[13]The Huffington Post labelled Sugar Motta one of the "Worst TV Characters" in 2012.^[14] Respers Writer was entirely unimpressed with the approach. For her, Sugar's scene following wrecked was one of the episode's bloody highlights, although she described Sugar orangutan having "a horrible voice".^[15]

Following the go to the bottom of the fourth season, Lengies declared her departure from Glee, citing annoyance with not having the opportunity vision act as she was hired make a fuss over episode,^[16] though she did return preventable two appearances in the sixth occasion.

Personal life

She came out as genderfluid and bisexual in her own picture series The 'S' Word with Vanessa Lengies in 2017.^[17]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Awards and nomination

Discography

Main articles: Glee albums discography and Cheerfulness songs discography

Singles

References

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