US actress Julianna Guill, working in the field since 2006, landed her breakout role in 2009 with her role of Bree in the re-make of “Friday the 13th.” The movie garnered her global audience and won her new fans. Those who watch American TV shows know her from “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “One Tree Hill,” and “How I Met Your Mother.” Read on to learn more about this emerging actress and learn 25 facts about her you probably did not know.
1. Her full name is Julianna Minetree Guill.
Although it might seem as if her middle name is her maiden name, it isn’t. Her married name is McMillan, but she goes by her given name since she already SAG-ed herself that way.
2. Born on July 7, 1987, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Earl and Ann Guill she wasn’t yet born when the events in “Glory Daze” occurred.
The TV show setting occurred in 1987 during her infancy.
3. Guill has two siblings.
All three sing and performed on stage during childhood. During her school years, Guill studied voice and dance, including ballet, jazz, and tap styles. She performed with the chorus of R.J. Reynolds High School until her graduation in 2005 often singing as a soloist.
4. She launched her career while still in high school, making several guest appearances on television shows.
These included her character in the first season of “One Tree Hill,” “To Wish Impossible Things” as Money Girl in episode 18, then as Ashley in the third season episode, “Locked Hearts and Hand Grenades.” She rounded these appearances out with roles on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “CSI: Miami,” and “How I Met Your Mother.”
5. Guill initially planned to attend college.
She attended New York University for one semester to study acting but dropped out to move to Los Angeles in time for “pilot season.” She figured (and rightly) that it provided her best chance of landing a role on an upcoming TV series.
6. Five years after her high school graduation, Guill landed her first major TV role.
In 2010, she played Christie DeWitt on “Glory Daze,” a TBS comedy-drama. The single-season show delved into the lives of Hayes University college freshmen.
7. On September 26, 2015, Guill wed writer, producer Ben McMillan at Cape Cod’s Martha’s Vineyard.
McMillan, eight years her senior and born on February 26, 1979, is best known for his work on the film “Quest for Truth” and the Nickelodeon situation comedy “Max and Shred. The couple has a daughter named Mabel McMillan.
8. While most audiences know Guill from her television appearances, she also appears in many Hollywood movies.
You can see her in “Crazy Stupid Love” and “Captain America: Civil War” with Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson as well as in “A Green Story” as Rebecca.
9. She’s worked her way up as an actress and now commands a good salary although she has yet to break the million-dollar role mark.
The American actress earns between $40,000 and $120,000 per movie role and between $20,000 and $40,000 per episode for a TV show.
10. Like many before her, she worked as a waitress before she made it as an actress.
She waited tables at Los Angeles restaurants while she auditioned for her first roles. Until she landed a regular role on TV, she continued to wait tables so she would have a steady, reliable income.
11. You would expect that her parents would disapprove of her dropping out of college, but her mom put her support behind her daughter.
Her mother has said in interviews that her daughter’s determination, grit, and will to succeed impressed her.
12. She tweets regularly and dabbles on Instagram.
Guill’s Instagram, @officialjguill, has more than 31,000 followers, but her Twitter, @juliannaguill, has more than 15 million followers. Rather than promoting her career, Guill posts her personal life. She updates fans on her family and posts public photos of her daughter and the two family cats.
13. The petite yet buxom actress stands just 5′ 3½” or 1.61 meters, but she made a secondary career out of bikini and lingerie modeling.
The Internet is rife with sexy photos of the actress in a bikini.
14. Julianna Guill landed a regular role on a Web television series, too.
She starred in 2008’s “My Alibi” as Scarlet Haukkson. It has been her only major role on a Web series.
15. Her early roles consisted of many teen-driven movies, one straight-to-DVD role, and an MTV movie that raised some eyebrows.
You can see her in 2009’s “2 Dudes and a Dream,” and “Fired Up!” as well as in the role of Katy in “Road Trip: Beer Pong,” the straight-to-DVD release. The same year, she landed the role in the “Friday the 13th” re-make as well as the MTV production “My Super Psycho Sweet 16.” The following year saw more teen roles including the film “Costa Rican Summer” and “Altitude.”
All of that work helped lead to the recurring roles on “Glory Daze” in 2010 as Christie Dewitt and “Underemployed” in 2012. She also appeared in the 2012 movie “The Apparition.”
16. Her guest-starring roles included an appearance on “Community” as Head Cheerleader, 2016’s “Rush Hour” and “Relationship Status.”
17. Her TV shows in which she played the main character or recurring role include 2013’s “Bad Samaritans,” 2014’s “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce,” 2015’s “Bad Night,” 2016’s “Killing Poe,” “Rush Hour,” and “Relationship Status.”
Due to her perseverance in auditioning and studying acting, she quickly landed recurring roles. Four years after dropping out of college and moving to California, she landed “Glory Daze.”
18. Whether it is their youth, their similar builds, or similar features, TV fans often confuse Julianna Guill with “Psych” actress Maggie Lawson who plays Juliet.
When you search the Web for information on Guill, one of the search completions is “Julianna Guill Psych,” however the actress only appeared on that show for one episode as Vivian, a patient at an insane asylum with whom Gus falls in love. That’s Lawson, who took over the role of the young female police investigator after actress Anne Dudek left the series. However, if any casting director reads this, Guill and Lawson could easily play siblings in a show or movie.
19. Although she was not alive during the time in which “Glory Daze” is set, she came to love the 1980s after studying the period for her role.
She said in interviews that she got into the hair and makeup of the time and loved shoulder pads so much that she began incorporating them into her daily wardrobe off-set. “I’ve really warmed up to the idea of shoulder pads,” she told her hometown newspaper. “I’m starting to incorporate them in my wardrobe.”
20. You pronounce her last name Guill as “Gwill” as in a “gah” sound with a soft “h” in front of the word will.
21. Guill says the difference between guest starring on a TV show and landing a recurring role is that with the latter, your co-workers become your family.
“You get to come to the same show every day and the people you work with become like a family and a team,” she told the Winston-Salem Journal.
22. Her mother says that despite more than a decade in Hollywood, a setting known for its cutthroat ways, Julianna has “maintained her balance and her sweet, caring nature.”
23. The actress was born in the year of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac and its traits jibe with her mother’s descriptions of her as a teen and an adult.
Rabbits exhibit grace, tenderness, and sensitivity. They favor romance and good quality of life. Their peaceful nature means they avoid arguments and like to convert an enemy into a friend. They balance modesty with a stubborn nature.
24. Her favorite color is grey.
25. Her favorite flower is the Larkspur, which symbolizes love and positivity.
A popular flower to plant in her native NC, these blooms range in color from pink to indigo to purple.
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