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Azura Skye Profile |
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Birth Date: November 8, 1981
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Birth Place: Northridge, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Birth Name: Azura Dawn Storozynski
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Biography |
Azura Skye (born Azura Dawn Storozynski, November 8, 1981 in
Northridge, California) is an American actress best known
for her role as 'Jane' in the two season TV Show Zoe,
Duncan, Jack and Jane and for her appearance as Cassie
Newton in the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Azura Skye was born in her grandmother's home in Northridge,
California. Her parents being amateur gemologists, she was
named after azurite, a semi-precious mineral. She started
her career as a stage actress at the age of three and toured
Europe with the Santa Monica Playhouse theatre group at the
age of eleven. She received her education at the Brentwood
School.
Skye made her first TV appearance on the show Total Security
in 1997. Then she played a couple of smaller parts on
Touched by an Angel and Chicago Hope, and made appearances
in a number of television movies before she was cast for the
role as "Jane" in Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane in 1999.
Zoe..., as the showed was renamed for the second season, was
a shortlived (two seasons) sit com about four teenagers -
Skye's character being one of them. In 2000, the same year
that Zoe... ended, Skye's first major movie production
premiered. In 28 Days she starred alongside Sandra Bullock
and Viggo Mortensen.[3]
Two years later, in 2002, Skye appeared in two episodes of
the cult TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the episode
"Help" she plays Cassie Newton, a teen girl at Sunnydale
High who possesses the power of precognition and who
foresees her own death, and whom Buffy tries to help. In the
episode "Conversations with Dead People" she plays an
incarnation of the First Evil, in the form and shape of
Cassie, who attempts to convince Willow to commit suicide,
by pretending to bring a message from her dead girlfriend
Tara.
During this time she also appeared in other projects, doing
smaller parts. She has played Susie Keaton in four episodes
of CSI: Miami and has made guest appearances in shows such
as Smallville and Judging Amy. Skye has also played parts in
movies like Bandits (with Bruce Willis and Cate Blanchett),
The Salton Sea (with Val Kilmer) and Red Dragon (with
Anthony Hopkins).
Azura Skye's most recent movie part is that of "Ruby Bates",
in the 2006 drama Heavens Fall. In 2007 she will star as
"Sara" in Like Moles, Like Rats and will have a small part
in What We Do Is Secret and a major part in the American
remake of the Japanese movie One Missed Call, which is
expected to premiere in America on August 24.
Her most recent TV appearances are as "Skyler" in three 2006
episodes of The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, an
eight-part comedy series about the not-so-glamorous side of
Hollywood, and as the Voice of "Veronica" in an episode of
"American Dad". |
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Other
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Her parents were gemologists and named her for the
semi-precious gem.
"Azura" is derived from "azure", a shade of blue. Thus her
name can be interpreted as "Blue Sky".
Azura was only supposed to play the character, "Cassie
Newton", in a single episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
(1997), but she reprised the role later the same season when
Amber Benson declined to return as the ghost of her slain
character, Tara Maclay, and the script was rewritten so that
Cassie's ghost appears instead. |
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