Brittany Snow's Real Name: Brittany Snow

Quick answer: Brittany Snow is known professionally as Brittany Snow. The Library of Congress heading is "Snow, Brittany, 1986-," based in part on credits for American Dreams. In a 2012 interview with The Columbus Dispatch she was described as 26, a figure consistent with that heading, and she discussed a career that had already included American Dreams and the film Pitch Perfect (The Columbus Dispatch).

Real name and early life

The public name Brittany Snow is the name used in the Dispatch interview and in library catalogs. A more precise date appearing in some databases is documented in the Library of Congress record only through IMDb and is not used in the title. In the 2012 interview Snow said her mother had gotten her into the business when she was a baby and that she had been working professionally since she was 12.

Career highlights

The Dispatch reported that she first gained recognition as Susan Lemay on Guiding Light (1998–2002), then moved into prime-time drama with American Dreams (2002–05), the NBC series cited in her Library of Congress record. The same interview lists later films including The Pacifier (2005), Hairspray (2007), and Prom Night (2008), a five-episode arc on Nip/Tuck (2005), and independent features.

In 2012 she played Chloe, one of the leaders of a college a cappella group, in Pitch Perfect, opposite Anna Kendrick and Anna Camp. She told the Dispatch that she had read the script about three years earlier, laughed until she cried, and immediately told her agent she had to be in the film, praising the humor as intelligent. She also said that comparisons to the television series Glee were inevitable, but that she loved the script as a different take on that world. At the time of the interview she had also completed the independent films Petunia, which she said had premiered at a Los Angeles gay and lesbian film festival, and Syrup, a story about young people in New York marketing, and had produced as well as appeared in the horror film Would You Rather. In the same conversation she said that when she thought about her career it already felt as if she had done a lot, and also that, at 26, there was much more she wanted to do.

Name notes for searchers

Brittany Snow is the professional name used in the Dispatch interview and by the Library of Congress. Searchers looking for the American Dreams actress, or for Chloe in Pitch Perfect, are usually aiming at the same person.