Danielle Harris

Danielle Andrea Harris (born June 1, 1977) is an American actress and film director, best known as a scream queen for her participation in several horror films, including four entries in the Halloween series: 1988's Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, 1989's Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (as Jamie Lloyd), 2007's Halloween and 2009's Halloween II (as Annie Brackett). Other such turns include portraying Tosh in Urban Legend (1998), Belle in Stake Land (2010), and taking over the lead role of Marybeth Dunston in the Hatchet trilogy, for Hatchet II (2010) and Hatchet III (2013). Apart from her scream queen reputation, Harris is known as a former child actress whose career has grown to include various independent films as well as blockbusters such as Marked for Death (1990), The Last Boy Scout (1991), Free Willy (1993), Daylight (1996) and the aforementioned Halloween films. She is also noted for her voice acting, which includes her role of Debbie Thornberry for the complete TV series run of The Wild Thornberrys (1998–2004) and related films The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) and Rugrats Go Wild (2003), and her role of Sierra on the TV series Father of the Pride (2004–2005). Harris' directorial debut, the horror comedy Among Friends, was released in 2013. 2Early life Harris was born in Plainview, New York and was raised by her mother Fran, along with one sister, Ashley. Harris is Jewish. While living in Florida during elementary school, Harris won a beauty contest, winning a trip to New York City for ten days. While there, she was offered various modeling jobs, but turned them down because they were all far from her home. Her mother was eventually transferred back to New York due to her job and Harris began work as a mode