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Movies
Cheerleaders Must Die! (2011)
Night of the Living Dead: Origins (2011)
Hatchet 2 (2010)
Stake Land (2010)
Cyrus (2010)
Godkiller (2010)
Fear Clinic (5 episodes, 2009)
The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond (2009)
Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)
Halloween II (2009)
Super Capers (2009)
Prank (2008)
Burying the Ex (2008)
Left for Dead (2007)
Halloween (2007)
Race You to the Bottom (2005)
Em & Me (2004)
Debating Robert Lee (2004)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)
Killer Bud (2001)
Poor White Trash (2000)
Goosed (1999)
Urban Legend (1998)
Dizzyland (1998)
Daylight (1996)
Shattered Image (1996)
Wish Upon a Star (1996)
Free Willy (1993)
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
City Slickers (1991)
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)
Marked for Death (1990)
Halloween 5 (1989)
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Danielle Andrea Harris (born June 1, 1977) is an American television and film actress, known for her roles in four films in the Halloween series.
Personal Life
Harris was born in Daytona Beach, Florida and grew up in Queens, New York, raised by her single mother, Fran. She has a sister, Ashley. Harris is Jewish. In 1995, she was stalked by an obsessed fan, who wrote letters threatening to kill her. He was later arrested after bringing a shotgun and a teddy bear to her home. On January 29, 2007, Harris appeared on an episode of The Dr. Phil Show recounting the terrifying experience. The incident was unrelated to the Halloween franchise; the stalker was obsessed with her character Molly on the TV show Roseanne.
Career
Danielle’s family moved to Port Orange, Florida when she was in the fourth grade, where she attended Spruce Creek Elementary School. However, her tenure there was short-lived after winning a children’s beauty contest which took her to New York. When in New York, Harris began her professional career by appearing in television commercials while maintaining an A average at PS 117 and PS 232 in Queens, New York. Her first acting role soon followed in 1985, when she made her debut as Sammi Garretson on ABC’s One Life to Live, a role she played for three years.
In 1988, she auditioned & beat out Melissa Joan Hart for the part of Jamie Lloyd (Michael Myers’s niece) in the movie Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Just one year later, she would reprise the role in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. The character of Jamie returned in 1995 for Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, but Danielle did not participate due to disagreements on her fate in the script. Also, Harris requested $5000 to appear in the film (far less than she was paid for Halloween 4), but no agreement could be reached. J.C. Brandy ended up playing Jamie in the film, a decision with which some of the fans of the Halloween series were dissatisfied. Harris would later return to the franchise in a new role, that of Annie Brackett, in Rob Zombie’s Halloween, a 2007 re-imagining of John Carpenter’s 1978 original. In the 2007 remake, she had nudity for a sex scene and her victimization, which caused controversy. She stated “I want people to see me in this movie as Annie Brackett, not Jamie. I’m not little Jamie anymore and people need to realize that.” She reprised her role in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, released on August 28, 2009.
Harris’s other film credits include Marked for Death (1990) alongside Steven Seagal, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991) alongside Christina Applegate, City Slickers (1991), The Last Boy Scout (1991) alongside Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans, Free Willy (1993), Daylight (1996) alongside Sylvester Stallone, Wish Upon a Star (1996) alongside Katherine Heigl, and Urban Legend (1998). She has also appeared frequently on television, with a recurring role on the sitcom Roseanne during the 1992-93 season (as Roseanne’s neighbor Molly), and subsequent guest appearances on Boy Meets World, Diagnosis Murder, Charmed, ER and Cold Case. As well, she appeared in a season four promo for American’s Funniest Home videos. She also appeared alongside Ellen Burstyn for two years on the CBS drama That’s Life, and as the voice of Debbie Thornberry on the animated series The Wild Thornberrys, which ran for five seasons, and as the voice of Sierra, the adolescent lioness in the short-lived animated series Father of the Pride.
Some of Harris’s most recent projects include the films Debating Robert Lee, Race You to the Bottom (an Outfest prizewinner) and the upcoming Left for Dead, as well as an appearance in the music video for the song “The Bleeding”, by Five Finger Death Punch. She also stars alongside Lance Henriksen, Bill Moseley, AFI’s Davey Havok, and Battlestar Galactica’s Nicki Clyne in the “illustrated film” series Godkiller. She hosted Route 666: America’s Scariest Home Haunts on FEARnet.
Her films Godkiller and Blood Night saw DVD releases in late 2009. Fear Clinic, a FEARnet.com original webseries, co-starring Danielle and Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, and Lisa Wilcox, will debut around Halloween 2009, as well as Danielle’s own horror website, horrorgal.com. She can also be seen as Felicia Freeze in Super Capers, and will appear with Robert Patrick in the upcoming The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond. She is currently shooting Jim Mickle’s second feature film the vampire flick Stake Land, due in 2010 and Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D who is directed by Zebediah de Soto. On Dec. 3rd Harris confirmed a role in the horror film “Hatchet 2″, where she portrays Marybeth. Harris is a guest star of the 2010 Creation Entertainment Weekend of Horrors in the Marriott Los Angeles Airport on 21 May 2010. She potrayed a Vamp in the upcoming Thriller flick New Blood.
Trivia
She appeared both as the on-screen “Roseanne” (1988)’s neighbour, Molly in the TV show, and as Roseanne’s real life daughter, Jessica in a movie autobiography of Roseanne’s life.
Mother’s name is Fran
Younger sister, Ashley
Dated Omri Katz
Film called “Kukaburra Blues” was filmed, then scrapped due to budget problems
Celebrated her 11th birthday on the set of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988).
In the mid-1990s, was stalked by an obsessed fan. This person wrote letters threatening to kill her, and was eventually arrested for bringing a shotgun to her house.
By Halloween 5 (1989), she played the piano and danced, with emphasis on ballet, tap, jazz and clogging.
After much delay in preproduction, when it finally came time to start casting/working on Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), she was willing to reprise her role of Jamie Lloyd, the character she originally portrayed in the previous two sequels. However, the producers couldn’t come to terms with the salary she asked for her new contract. They decided to bring in J.C. Brandy to portray an older incarnation of Jamie Lloyd.
In Wish Upon a Star (1996), Danielle played the younger sister, Hayley, opposite Katherine Heigl, who played her older sister, Alexia. In real life, Danielle is older.
Celebrated her 12th birthday on the set of Halloween 5 (1989).
In the infamous laundry chute scene in Halloween 5 (1989), Jamie was originally stabbed in the leg but the shot was cut from the film by the MPAA because it was deemed “too disturbing”. Danielle still owns the prosthetic leg.
Kept her clown costume from Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) for years and even went trick-or-treating that year around Queens as Jamie Lloyd. Years later she sold the costume to a dedicated “Halloween” fan for his own personal collection.
Danielle was born in Daytona Beach, Florida and then her family moved to Port Orange, Florida when she was in the fourth grade, where she attended Spruce Creek Elementary School. She was only there a very short while after winning a children’s beauty contest her family them moved to Queens, New York City, New York. She attended PS232 elementary school in Queens and began a career as a child actress in numerous television commercials before landing her first role on the long running soap opera “One Life to Live” (1968) at the age of 8 in 1985.
Is friends with actress Jennifer Blanc.
Her favorite color is green.
Personal Quotes
(About Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)) “It was my first movie, so I was more excited about that – just being an actress, never mind being in a horror movie. At that time, I wasn’t even a horror movie fan. I did “Halloween 4″ and Halloween 5 (1989) back to back, and I decided that horror movies were all I wanted to do for the rest of my life. It was going to be my thing”.
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