Contents
* 1 Life and career
* 2 Filmography
* 3 References
* 4 External links
Life and career
Benson was born and raised in Long Beach, California. She started dancing competitively in ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and lyrical at age 3. She also enjoys singing, and has appeared in several choir groups and musicals. At age 4, she was asked to audition to sing solo at four Christmas services for her 2,500 member church. At 5 years old, she modeled in dance catalogs, and at age 8 was pursued by The Ford Modeling Agency and worked steadily in print. She made a very small appearance in Zoey 101 in the episode Quinn's Date. She has also performed in NLT's music video "That Girl".
In 1999, Benson started pursuing an acting career. She began working and appearing on a number of commercials, but quickly made the transition into film and television. In 2004, Benson signed a three-year contract with the daytime television series, Days of our Lives, and on November 12, 2004 began her role as Abigail "Abby" Deveraux, the oldest child of supercouple Jack Deveraux and Jennifer Horton, until May 2, 2007. She explained that, because of the number of episodes filmed a day, "you can't really mess up; you have to know all of your lines", and that she did not get a break from work
She played a witch disguised as a cheerleader in a 2008 episode of the CW series Supernatural. In films, she was one of the "Six Chicks" in 13 Going on 30, and appeared as Carson in an installment of the Bring It On series, Bring It On: In It to Win It. To land the lead role, she had to terminate her contract with Days of our Lives:
"I got off it, I mean I had talked with the producers about doing this film, and they weren't going to let me do it. I had passed up a lot of other good opportunities this. I really want to do this film. I had just passed up so many opportunities where I could have done a film. So this big thing just came up, and I ended up getting to do this. I'm happier that I got off the soap though. I mean I give all my credit to them, because I have learned so much from being on soap operas and working with amazing actors who've been on there for like thirty, forty years. It was an honor to work with them. It's definitely given me all my background. But getting off the soap opera helped me a too, because I can move on to bigger and better things. So I am definitely thankful I got to be on a soap opera though, but yeah.
She recalled working on a movie set instead of a soap opera set "definitely weird", because she would spend days working on one or two scenes, whereas on the Days of our Lives set, she filmed two or three episodes a day For Bring It On: In It to Win It, she had to attend cheerleading practice, which , she was "glad" to do her own stunts, even though she "wasn't expecting for it to be so hard
In 2008, she appeared in the Lifetime TV movie Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, where she played head cheerleader Brooke of the Fab Five, which is based on a true story which took place at McKinney North High School in Texas. She "loved" working with her onscreen mother Tatum O'Neal, from who she learned about acting Furthermore, she was excited to land a supporting role in Bart Got a Room, which aired mainly on film festivals in 2008 before having a limited release in 2009, because it allowed her to work with William H. Macy
Benson starred in ABC's 2009 television series Eastwick.The show was based on John Updike's novel, The Witches of Eastwick, and the 1987 film adaption of the same name. Her character, Mia, was the teen-aged daughter of Roxie Torcoletti Rebecca Romijn
In December 2009, Benson was cast as Hanna Marin in the TV series Pretty Little Liars based on the book series by Sara Shepard an interview she calls her character Hanna a 'Queen Bee.'
Benson has revealed on her Twitter account that she will be co-starring in a movie named Christmas Cupid with Chad Michael Murray and Christina Milian According to Zap2it Christmas Cupid will be an ABC Family Original Movie and will be about "more or about a comatose girl who visits her Christmas past, present, and future. She recently appeared in One Call's music video for Blacklight as well as recently making an appearance in the surfing world by attending the 2010 Surfer Poll Award Ceremony with Current boyfriend Clay Marzo American Surfer
Filmography
Film
Year Title Role Notes
2004 13 Going on 30 Six Chick
2005 Neighbors Mindy
2007 Bring It On: In It to Win It Carson
2008 Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal Brooke Tippit
2008 Bart Got a Room Alice
2010 Christmas Cupid Caitlin Quinn ABC Family Original Movie
2011 The Hate List Jessica Campbell Main Role
2011 Ten Year Anna Announced
Television
Year Show Role Notes
2002 Niki Dancer Episode "Working Girl"
The District Melissa Howell Episode: 'Explicit Activities'
The West Wing Girl Episode: 'Game On'
2004 Strong Medicine April Episode: 'Cape Cancer'
2004–2007 Days of our Lives Abigail Deveraux 175 episodes, November 12, 2004-May 7, 2007
2005 7th Heaven Margot 2 episodes
Zoey 101 Candice 1 episode
2006 The O.C Riley 1 episode
2008 Supernatural Tracy Davis 1 episode - 4x07 "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"
CSI: Miami Amy Beck 1 episode
2009–2010 Eastwick Mia Torcoletti Regular role, 13 episodes, Series Cancelled
2010–present Pretty Little Liars Hanna Marin Main role, ABC Family Original Series
2011 iCarly Tiffany Robins Stinky Feet Girl TBA
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