Felicia Day

Kathryn Felicia Day (born June 28, 1979)[1][2] is an American actress, writer, and web series creator. She is the creator, star, writer, and producer of the original web series The Guild (2007–2013), a show loosely based on her life as a gamer. She also wrote and starred in the Dragon Age web series Dragon Age: Redemption (2011). Day was a member of the board of directors of the International Academy of Web Television beginning December 2009 until the end of July 2012.[3][4]

Felicia Day
Day at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Kathryn Felicia Day June 28, 1979 Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress writer producer
Years active	2001–present
Children	1
Website	feliciaday.com

On television, Day has played Vi in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2003) and Dr. Holly Marten in Eureka (2011), and had a recurring role as Charlie Bradbury on Supernatural (2012–2015, 2018–2020). She has also acted in movies such as Bring It On Again (2004), as well as the Internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008). In April 2017, she began appearing as Kinga Forrester in Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Early life

Day was born in Huntsville, Alabama. She began her acting career at the age of 7 when she starred as Scout in a local production of To Kill a Mockingbird.[5] She studied operatic singing and ballet professionally, performing at concerts and competitions nationwide. Home-schooled throughout much of her childhood, she began college at the age of 16.[6]

She was a National Merit Scholar (1995)[7] and graduated as valedictorian of her class.[6][8] An accomplished violinist,[6] Day was accepted to the Juilliard School of Music but chose to attend the University of Texas at Austin on a full scholarship in violin performance. She double majored in mathematics and music performance, and graduated at the age of 19 in the top 4% of her class.[8][9][10] She is also an avid player of a wide variety of video game genres. Much of her work on The Guild web series was based on her personal experience with video games, especially when she played World of Warcraft.[11][12]

Career

Early career

After graduation, Day moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. She landed several roles in various short and independent films as well as commercials and guest spots on television shows, including Undeclared and Maybe It's Me. These parts propelled her to larger roles: a part in the film Bring It On Again, the starring role in June, and a recurring guest spot as potential Slayer Vi on television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a recurring role that is still occasionally used in that show's eighth season comic book series. In HBO's 2005 biopic of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warm Springs, Day's singing was featured when her wheelchair-using character serenaded a dinner group with "I Won't Dance".

The Guild

Felicia Day at the 2009 Streamy Awards

Day is the creator, writer, and star of The Guild,[13] a web series which aired from 2007 to 2013 and explored the MMORPG gaming subculture.[14] The first season was primarily hosted on YouTube, where it garnered millions of views.[15] Its second season premiered on Microsoft's three major video channels, Xbox Live, MSN Video and The Zune Marketplace, after Microsoft made a deal with The Guild, allowing Day, her cast and her crew to be paid for their work.

Day also created a song and music video called "(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar", featuring the cast dressed up as their in-game personae. The final moments of the music video itself also detailed that the release date for the third season of Day's The Guild would be August 25, 2009. A second song and Bollywood style video "Game On" was released prior to the premiere of the fourth season of The Guild. A third and final music video, called "I'm the One That's Cool", features the members of the cast in the guise of an alternative band performing at a local venue, intercut with scenes of the cast as younger versions of their characters experiencing bullying at the hands of "cooler" and more popular kids while at school.

The Guild has won multiple awards, including the Greenlight Award for Best Original Digital Series Production at the South by Southwest festivals,[16] several IAWTV Awards, including Best Comedy Series,[17] the YouTube Video Award for Best Series,[18] the Yahoo! Video Award for Best Series,[19] and 2009 Streamy Awards for Best Comedy Web Series, Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series, and Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series.[20]

Felicia Day with The Guild co-star Wil Wheaton at w00tstock in 2011

Geek & Sundry

In March 2012, Day announced that she would be launching a premium YouTube channel, "Geek & Sundry," on April 2.[21]

Geek and Sundry took over production of The Guild for Season 6. Day hosts several shows on Geek & Sundry, most notably The Flog, Vaginal Fantasy, Felicia's Ark, and Co-Optitude (which co-stars Felicia's brother Ryon Day.)

In 2012 Day created the web series Tabletop with Wil Wheaton. She is an executive producer for the series and appears regularly as a guest. In the same vein, in 2015 she suggested to the original cast of Critical Role to begin streaming their tabletop home game as a show.[22]

In August 2014, Geek and Sundry was acquired by Legendary to produce content alongside of Chris Hardwick's Nerdist Industries,[23] with Day retaining creative control.

Other work

In July 2008, Day starred as Penny in the three-part web-based musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (created by Joss Whedon, who also created Dollhouse and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which Day had parts).[24] Day was featured as a patient in the episode "Not Cancer" of the medical drama House,[25] and had a guest starring role in the sci-fi drama Dollhouse's unaired episode "Epitaph One",[26] as well as its series finale "Epitaph Two." Also in 2008, Day was featured in a series of commercials for Sears Blue Crew.[27][28] She also appeared in the first of the revitalized Cheetos commercials.[29]

Day promoting Con Man at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con.

In the series Lie to Me, on the episode called "Tractor Man," airing December 14, 2009, Day sang a song called "White Lie" alongside Brendan Hines. Day starred with Kavan Smith in the Syfy film adaption of the Little Red Riding Hood saga, called Red,[30] produced by Angela Mancuso.[31] Day also played the continuing role of Dr. Holly Marten in the Syfy channel's original series, Eureka, appearing in 18 episodes during the last two seasons of the show. Day has also played the role of 'Gorgol' in the web series MyMusic directed by The Fine Brothers.

In February 2011, Day announced that she would be starring in a new web miniseries. Called Dragon Age: Redemption, it is based on the Dragon Age video games made by BioWare[32] and aired on October 10, 2011.[33] Day plays an elf named Tallis, and returns as the voice and model for the character in the Dragon Age II downloadable content Mark of the Assassin."

In January 2012, Day announced that she would be hosting a Google+ Hangout called Vaginal Fantasy. The Hangout features Day along with Kiala Kazebee, Veronica Belmont, and Bonnie Burton. Every month they discuss lady-leaning paranormal and historical adventure books.[34] In February 2012, Day guest starred in Sean "Day[9]" Plott's online webcast featuring Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.[35]

In April 2012, it was announced that Day would host the 2012 IndieCade Awards Ceremony on October 4, 2012.[36] Also in April of that year, Day appeared on the YouTube show MyMusic as a Norwegian Black Metal singer named Gorgol.[37] She guest starred in the second season of the Jane Espenson scripted web series, Husbands.[38] In October 2012, she guest starred on The Game Station podcast and appeared in an episode of My Drunk Kitchen.

In 2013, Geek & Sundry and Atlas Games worked together to release a promotional pack for the card game Gloom for TableTop Day 2013 with a Felicia Day, Guild Goddess card.[39] In 2014, Alderac Entertainment Group included a Felicia Day card in the storage case expansion, The Big Geeky Box for their card game Smash Up.[40] In 2015, Plaid Hat Games released a Felicia Day character card for their board game Dead of Winter: A Cross Roads Game for Tabletop Day 2015.[41]

On August 4, 2015, Day guest starred on Episode 9 of the Dear Hank & John podcast.[42] On October 1, 2016, Day provided a guest voice for the Welcome to Night Vale podcast as Zookeeper Joanna Rey.

In April 2017, she began appearing as Kinga Forrester in Mystery Science Theater 3000. In August 2017, Day appeared as a guest in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Perfect Pear", voicing Pear "Buttercup" Butter, the presumed-deceased mother of one of the show's main characters, Applejack. In the episode, she also performs a romantic ballad, titled "You're In My Head Like a Catchy Song".

Day organised and hosted a Twitch charity livestream on 30 June 2018, in aid of Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), a Texas nonprofit. The 12-hour livestream raised over $212,000.[43][44]

From 2018 to 2019, Day appeared in two episodes of the Syfy channel original series The Magicians as Poppy Kline.

Awards

In September 2008, TV Week included her in their list of Top 10 Web Video Creators.[45]

During the inaugural Streamy Awards held in Los Angeles on March 28, 2009, Day received the award for the "Best Female Actor in a Comedy" for her work as protagonist Cyd Sherman in The Guild, and won the same award again in 2010.[46]

She was also recognized for her work on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in 2009. Day was also nominated for the Best Guest Appearance Award for the 3rd Streamy Awards.[47]

In June 2018, she won a Behind the Voice Actors Award in Best Female Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Guest Role for her role as Pear Butter in the episode "The Perfect Pear".[48]

Year	Award Show	Category	Work	Result
2009	1st Streamy Awards	Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series	The Guild	Won
		Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series (shared with the rest of the cast)		Won
		Best Writing in a Comedy Web Series		Nominated
2010	2nd Streamy Awards	Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series		Won
		Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series (shared with the rest of the cast)		Nominated
		Best Writing in a Comedy Web Series		Nominated
2012	Inaugural IAWTV Awards	Best Writing (Comedy)		Won
		Best Female Performance (Comedy)		Won
2013	2nd Annual IAWTV Awards	Best Writing (Non-Fiction)	The Flog	Won
	3rd Streamy Awards	Best Writing – Comedy	The Guild	Nominated
		Best Guest Appearance	MyMusic	Nominated
2017	Behind the Voice Actors Awards	Best Female Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Guest Role	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	Won

Personal life

On January 3, 2017, Day announced on social media that she was pregnant and expecting a baby girl in a few weeks.[49] She announced her daughter's birth on January 30, 2017.[50]

Filmography and other works

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Strings
2003	Delusional
	Backslide	Maddie
2004	The Mortician's Hobby	Tiffany
	Bring It On Again	Penelope
	Final Sale	Felicia
2005	Short Story Time	Felicia
2006	God's Waiting List	Trixie
2007	Splitting Hairs	Sugar Girl
2008	Prairie Fever	Blue
	Dear Me	Pipsy
2010	Red: Werewolf Hunter	Virginia Sullivan
2011	Rock Jocks	Alison
2014	Lust for Love	Mary
2017	We Love You, Sally Carmichael!	Sarah

Television/web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Emeril	Cherie	Episode: "Whose Life Is It Anyway?"
2002	Maybe It's Me	Cookie	Episode: "The Crazy-Girl Episode"
	House Blend	Pam	TV movie
	They Shoot Divas, Don't They?	Call Girl	TV movie
2003	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Vi	8 episodes
	For the People	Nicole	Episode: "Nexus"
	Undeclared	Sheila	Episode: "God Visits"
2004	Century City	Sheryl	Episode: "The Haunting"
	Strong Medicine	Jesse's Friend	Episode: "Positive Results"
	One on One	Sarah	Episode: "We'll Take Manhattan"
	June	June Marie Jacobs	TV movie
2005	Warm Springs	Eloise Hutchinson	TV movie
	Mystery Woman: Vision of a Murder	Emily	TV movie
	Monk	Heidi Gefsky	Episode: "Mr. Monk Gets Drunk"
2006	Windfall	Danielle	Episodes: "Changing Partners", "Crash Into You"
	Love, Inc.	Natalie	Episode: "Hello, Larry"
2007–2013	The Guild	Cyd Sherman/Codex	Web series Creator
2008	House	Apple	Episode: "Not Cancer"
	Retarded Policeman #7.5: Fish[51]	Herself
	Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog	Penny	Web series
2008–2010	The Legend of Neil	Fairy	Web series 5 episodes
2009	Roommates	Alyssa	3 episodes
	My Boys	Heather	Episode: "Madder of Degrees"
	Dollhouse	Mag	Episodes: "Epitaph One", "Epitaph Two: Return"
	IRrelevant Astronomy	Felicia Day	Episode: "Behind the Scenes: When Galaxies Collide"
	Lie to Me	Ms. Angela	Episode: "Tractor Man"
	Three Rivers	Jeni	Episode: "A Roll of the Dice"
2010	A Comicbook Orange	Herself	Episode: "Felicia Day & Viking"
	The Webventures of Justin and Alden	Herself	2 episodes
2010–2013	Generator Rex	Annie	Voice role 3 episodes
2011	Dragon Age: Redemption	Tallis	Writer & co-producer
	The Big Chew	Marjorie	YouTube production
2011–2012	Eureka	Dr. Holly Marten	18 episodes
2012	Fish Hooks	Angela	Voice role 4 episodes
	MyMusic	Gorgol	Episode: "INVISIBLE!" YouTube Internet series
	Dan Vs.	The Boss	Voice role Episode: "Dan vs. The Boss"
	Husbands	Sexy Pizza Girl	Web series
	YOMYOMF	Herself	Episode: "KevJumba Takes the SAT w/ Felicia Day" YouTube Internet series
	The Game Station Podcast	Herself	Episode: "Episode 27" YouTube Internet series
	Rewind YouTube Style 2012	Carly Rae Jepsen	Single video
2012–2014	My Gimpy Life	Felicia	2 episodes YouTube Internet series
	The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange	Ginger/Peach	Voice role 29 episodes
2012–2017	Tabletop	Herself	10 episodes
2012–2020	Supernatural	Charlie Bradbury/Celeste Middleton	10 episodes
2012–present	The Flog	Herself	Weekly vlog on Geek & Sundry
	Vaginal Fantasy	Herself	Monthly hangout on Geek & Sundry
2013	Felicia's Ark	Herself	Weekly series running from April 1 to May 13. YouTube Internet series
	Co-Optitude	Herself	YouTube Internet series
	Spellslingers	Herself	2 episodes YouTube Internet series
	Outlands	84	YouTube Internet series
2015	Critical Role	Lyra	Episodes 18 & 19: "Trial of the Take: Part 1 & 2"
	Rooster Teeth Podcast	#337	YouTube Web series
2015–2017	Con Man	Karen	Webseries 5 episodes[52]
2016	We Bare Bears	Karla	Voice role Episode: "The Island"
	The Librarians	Charlotte	Episode: "And the Tears of a Clown"
2017	Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!	Violet Oberon	Voice role Episode: "Vote Velma"
	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	Pear Butter	Voice role Episode: "The Perfect Pear"
	Danger & Eggs	Francesca	Voice role Episode: "Check Mates/Pirate Gorgeous"
	The Game Awards	Herself	Presenter; industry icon
2017–2018	Adventure Time	Betty	Voice role 8 episodes
	Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters	Erika Violette	Voice role 14 episodes
	Mystery Science Theater 3000	Kinga Forrester	20 episodes
2017–present	Skylanders Academy	Cynder	Voice role Netflix series
2018	Miles from Tomorrowland	Grendel / Hemeran	Voice role Episode: "Grendel's Moving Castle/The Great Gadfly"
	Robot Chicken	Livewire/Jessica Rabbit	Voice role Episode: "Never Forget"
2018–2019	The Magicians	Poppy Kline	2 episodes
2019	Good Mythical Morning	Herself	Alien Food Taste Test
	The Rookie	Dr. Morgan	Episode: "Free Fall"
2020	Marvel's Spider-Man	Mary Jane Watson[53]	Voice role

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Rock of the Dead	Mary Beth
	Fallout: New Vegas	Veronica Santangelo
2011	Dragon Age II: Mark of the Assassin	Tallis
2012	Guild Wars 2	Zojja	[54]
2014	Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff	Herself
2015	Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns	Zojja

Books

Day is the author of the memoir You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost),[55] as well as numerous works relating to the Guild web series.[56]

References

1. Felicia's College Resume, Archive of "utexas.edu/~felicia/personal.html"
2. McDowell, Ian (January 11, 2017). "Felicia Day". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
3. "International Academy of Web Television Names Inaugural chairman and board of directors" (PDF) (Press release). IAWTV. December 14, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 26, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2010.
4. "International Academy of Web Television Announces New Members of the board of directors" (Press release). IAWTV. July 27, 2011. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
5. Day, Felicia (April 19, 2016). You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir. Simon and Schuster. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-1-4767-8566-0.
6. "Cover Girl Felicia Day (Part I) with Melissa A. Bartell". Archived from the original on May 6, 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
7. "Scholars You May Know". National Merit Scholarship Corp. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved August 3, 2009.
8. Hryb, Larry (January 25, 2009). "Major Nelson: Show #306 : Felicia Day, RE5 and enforcement on Xbox LIVE". Felicia Day interview. MajorNelson.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2009.
9. Trapani, Gina."How Dr. Horrible's Felicia Day Gets Things Done", LifeHacker. August 4, 2008.
10. "Degrees and Dates of Attendance". The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
11. "Gaming Nexus Interview 2/18/2009". Retrieved December 24, 2009.
12. Felicia Day’s memoir is fun but shallow Retrieved November 21, 2015.
13. Hesse, Monica (April 3, 2012). "Felicia Day: A rising star for the Internet geek". The Washington Post.
14. Jøn, A. Asbjørn (2010). "The Development of MMORPG Culture and The Guild". Australian Folklore: A Yearly Journal of Folklore Studies. 25: 97–112.
15. Daisy Whitney (March 2008). "Popular but Not Profitable" Archived April 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. TelevisionWeek, 27(8), 3,28. Retrieved November 5, 2008, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 1454502881).
16. Press Release. "The Guild And "Knock Off" Take Top Honors At The Greenlight Awards" Archived May 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, ON Networks Inc. March 11, 2008. Retrieved on November 5, 2008.
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26. 13 facts about 'Epitaph One,' the 'lost' episode of 'Dollhouse', The Watcher, Chicago Tribune, July 6, 2009.
27. Wu, Annie (October 17, 2008). "Dr. Horrible's Felicia Day moonlights for Sears | CliqueClack TV". Cliqueclack.com. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
28. "blue". YouTube. September 30, 2008.
29. YouTube of Cheetos Commercial, November 26, 2008.
30. "Felicia Day Sees Red When it Comes to Werewolves on Syfy". Dreadcentral.com. March 8, 2010.
31. "New Syfy Saturday Original Movie To Star Felicia Day ("The Guild", "Dr. Horrible") in Re-Imagining of "Little Red Riding Hood"". Tvbythenumbers.com. March 8, 2010.
32. "Felicia Day Blog Archive: Dragon Age: Redemption". Feliciaday.com. February 15, 2011.
33. "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – Dragon Age: Redemption Trailer". Latenightwithjimmyfallon.com.
34. "Felicia Day Blog Archive: Vaginal Fantasy Book Hangout". Feliciaday.com.
35. "Felicia Day and Day[9]: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning! Part 1".
36. "Gamasutra: Felicia Day to Host Fifth Annual IndieCade Red Carpet Awards Ceremony". Gamasutra. April 19, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
37. "MyMusic: INVISIBLE (Episode 3)". Youtube.com. April 29, 2012.
38. Vary, Adam B (June 28, 2012). "'Husbands': EP and star on season 2 of their gay-marriage web series – EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
39. "Gloom: TableTop Promo Expansion". Board Game Geek. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
40. "Smash Up: The Big Geeky Box expansion". Board Game Geek. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
41. "Dead of Winter: Felicia Day". Board Game Geek. Retrieved August 16, 2016.
42. "iTunes - Podcasts - Dear Hank & John by Hank Green and John Green". iTunes. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
43. "Funny or Die Hosts Charity Livestream Featuring Felicia Day, Seth Green, Alan Tudyk, and More".
44. "RAICES on Twitter".
45. "Poised to Leap" Archived September 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. (September 2008). TelevisionWeek, 27(23), 1, 25–26. Retrieved November 5, 2008, from ABI/INFORM Global database. (Document ID: 1570740411).
46. "2010 Winners – The Streamy Awards". Streamys.org. 2010. Archived from the original on November 14, 2010.
47. "3RD ANNUAL NOMINEES". Streamys. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
48. "BTVA Voice Acting Awards 2017 - Television | Behind The Voice Actors". Behind The Voice Actors. June 15, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
49. Day, Felicia (January 3, 2017). "She's coming in about three weeks so I guess I should announce this and stuff". Facebook. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
50. Day, Felicia (January 30, 2017). "Calliope Maeve has arrived! She is currently wearing a "Bard in Training" onesie. #LessThanThree <3(And yes that is a baby low jack on her ankle. Hospitals don't mess around anymore)". Facebook. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
51. "Retarded Policeman #7.5: Fish – with Felicia Day of The Guild". YouTube. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
52. Fowler, Matt (March 11, 2015). "Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion launch Indiegogo Campaign for Con Man". IGN. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
53. https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/news/Spider-Man-Maximum-Venom-Guest-Stars/
54. Guild Wars 2 – Behind the Scenes: Giving Tyria a Voice (YouTube). December 16, 2009. Event occurs at 2:03.
55. Day, Felicia (2015). You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781476785653. OCLC 913517863.
56. "Felicia Day (Author of The Guild)". Goodreads. Goodreads. Retrieved August 5, 2015.

External links

• Official website
• Felicia Day at IMDb
• Between the Sheets: Felicia Day on YouTube – 2019 video interview by Critical Role