Brittany Allen is a Canadian actress and composer. Her first notable role was as Marissa Chandler on All My Children from 2009 to 2010, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in 2011. In later years, she worked consistently on television, and in the films of her partner, Colin Minihan, including the 2018 film What Keeps You Alive which Allen starred in and scored, the 2014 filmExtraterrestrial, and the 2016 filmIt Stains the Sands Red.
After a few minor roles in TV movies, Allen played the role of Marissa Chandler on All My Children from April 21, 2009 to December 21, 2010. For this role, she earned a Daytime Emmy Award in 2011 in the category Younger Actress in a Drama Series. She went on to appear in several TV series, with recurring roles in the Canadian dramaBomb Girls and the American science fiction western Defiance on the Syfy network. In 2014, she played the lead role in the science fiction horror filmExtraterrestrial, directed by Colin Minihan of The Vicious Brothers, with whom Allen started an ongoing personal and professional relationship. In 2015, Allen starred in the psychological thrillerBackgammon and contributed to the writing of the story for the independentcomedy-drama film, Almost Anything. In 2016, she teamed up with Minihan again for the unconventional zombie filmIt Stains the Sands Red, where Allen acted as executive producer and starred as a lone woman being chased by a single, relentless zombie throughout the desert. In 2017, Allen starred in the science fiction dramaIncontrol. She also had a co-starring role in the horror film Jigsaw, a sequel to the Saw film franchise. In 2018, she appeared on the USA Network series Falling Water, replacing Brooke Bloom in the role of Sabine for the series' second season. She also played the role of Ella Riordan in the second season of NBC's "Taken". The same year she co-starred alongside her Jigsaw co-star Hannah Emily Anderson in the thrillerWhat Keeps You Alive, which she also produced and scored. The film marks her third collaboration with Colin Minihan. In 2019, she appeared in the horror film The Prodigy as Margaret St. James. The same year she appeared as Charlotte/Popclaw in the Amazon superhero black comedy television series, The Boys.
