dawson Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 Heather Elizabeth Morris (born February 1, 1987) is an American actress and dancer best known for her role as Brittany in the musical comedy series Glee. Early life Born in Thousand Oaks, California but raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Heather Morris started dancing when she was a year old. Career Morris's first significant appearance was in 2006 on So You Think You Can Dance Season 2 where she made the "green mile" but failed to make the final 20 by a vote of 3-2. Not discouraged, Morris decided to move to LA and actively pursue a career in dancing. Her big break came in 2007 via Beyoncé. Morris was one of Beyonce's backup dancers on The Beyoncé Experience world tour and, following that, worked again with Beyonce on a mini "Single Ladies" promotional tour that included 2008 performances on the American Music Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show, and MTV's Total Request Live Finale. She also danced backup for Beyonce and Tina Turner at the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008. Her second big break came via a small role in the movie Fired Up, where she met choreographer Zach Woodlee. Following that film, Woodlee brought Morris in to dance on other shows he was choreographing, including episodes of Eli Stone and Swingtown, the movie Bedtime Stories, and eventually Glee. Morris was taking acting classes and actively pursuing an acting career when she was asked by Woodlee to teach the choreography for Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" dance to the Glee actors. At the same time, the show was looking for a third cheerleader, and Morris ended up landing the role of Brittany. Initially a background character who hardly ever spoke, the role grew as writers discovered Morris had a gift for delivering one liners. Jarrett Wieselman of the New York Post opined that Morris has "emerged as one of the funniest second bananas on TV right now" and the LA Times wrote of having a "...comedy crush on Morris, who plays the galactically dim Glee Club cheerleader Brittany". When a promotional clip for the episode "Sectionals" indicated that Brittany and Santana Lopez had slept together, Dorothy Snarker, writing for lesbian entertainment website After Ellen, praised the pairing, referring to them by the portmanteau "Brittana". Snarker called the two her "new favorite Glee pairing", commenting that: "While Heather Morris (Brittany) and Naya Rivera (Santana) have had minimal screen time, they Quote
sdstealth Posted August 8, 2010 Posted August 8, 2010 She is GORGEOUS. Amazing body, too. Does anyone have more of her? Quote
siseto500 Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 Heather Morris - 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2011-01-30) Quote
Ophelia_Immortal Posted January 31, 2011 Posted January 31, 2011 She is my fave on Glee, makes me Laugh so hard! Quote
FashionDream Posted March 14, 2011 Posted March 14, 2011 American Cheerleader April 2011 deadlamb Quote
FashionDream Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 at the Glee PaleyFest 2011 panel in Beverly Hills march 16, 2011 HQ Quote
Carol PrinceSS Posted May 24, 2011 Posted May 24, 2011 Heather Morris Rocking Body On Women’s Health Magazine Cover Actress Heather Morris, who is best known for playing cheerleader Brittany S. Pierce in the FOX hit show “GLEE”, proudly shows off her incredibly toned and hot body in a bikini on the cover of the forthcoming issue of Women’s Health Magazine (June 2011). Quote
SicK As mY SecReTs Posted August 7, 2011 Posted August 7, 2011 Heather Morris @ premiere Of Glee The 3D Concert Movie – 6 AUG 2011 Quote
JDoe Posted May 2, 2012 Posted May 2, 2012 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Screening of Glee,May 1,2012 Quote
FashionDream Posted November 18, 2012 Posted November 18, 2012 at Nickelodeon's 2012 TeenNick HALO Awards at Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood - Nov. 17, 2012 Quote
guest Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 at 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on january 27, 2013 - HQs Quote
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