Why Does Georgia In Netflix's ‘Ginny & Georgia' Look So Familiar?

Forbes

5 hours ago

Brianne Howey in "Ginny and Georgia" Season 3.
Ginny & Georgia is back on Netflix and Season 3 is a No. 1 hit. What else has Brianne Howey, who plays Georgia in the coming-of-age drama and comedy, starred in?
Created by Sarah Lampert, Ginny & Georgia began premiered on Netflix in February 2021 and was followed by Season 2 in 2023. Ginny & Georgia Season 3 premiered on June 5 and like seasons 1 and 2, the season consists of 10 episodes.
The official synopsis for Ginny & Georgia Season 3 reads, "Georgia has just been arrested for murder during her wedding - ruining her fairy tale ending and putting the spotlight on the Millers like never before. It's always been Ginny and Georgia against the world, but the world has never come for them quite like this.
"Now, Ginny needs to see where she stands when push comes to shove – Is the two of them against the world something Ginny really wants to sign up for?"
On Tuesday, Netflix reported that Ginny & Georgia topped the streaming service's Top 10 Global TV Series chart for the second consecutive week, amassing 16.9 million views, which equates to 178.2 million hours views from June 9-15.
Born May 24, 1989, Howey made her screen debut in a guest role in the Beverly Hills 90210 reboot series 90210 in 2010. From there, Howey made a string of guest appearances on several network series, including The Middle, Revenge, Criminal Minds, Hart of Dixie, Scream Queens, Hawaii Five-O and The Odd Couple.
In addition, Howey was a regular in the role of Scarlet on the sitcom I Live with Models, a Comedy Central UK series that ran from 2015 to 2017. Howey's other TV credits include a recurring roles in the CW superhero series Batwoman from 2019 to 2020 and the Hulu comedy series Dollface from 2019-2022.
In addition, Howey appeared in supporting roles in such films as the comedy Horrible Bosses 2 in 2014, the horror thriller Viral in 2016, the sci-fi thriller Time Trap in 2017 and the romantic comedy Plus One in 2019.
Below are other shows that Howey has starred in, which may explain why she looks so familiar.
Brianne Howey stars as Kat Rance in the Fox Television horror series The Exorcist, which is considered a direct sequel to the 1973 movie The Exorcist.
Hannah Kasulka stars as Kat's sister, Casey, who becomes possessed by the devil. Geena Davis also stars in The Exorcist as Kat and Casey's mother, Angela.
After one season on The Exorcist in 2016, Brianne Howey returned to Fox Television in 2019 for another horror series, The Passage. In the series, Howey stars as Shauna Babcock, a death row inmate who becomes infected with a virus that turns her into a vampire.
The Passage, which only aired for one season, is based on author Justin Cronin's best-selling trilogy of books of the same name.
Brianne Howey and Hayes MacArthur play Molly and Bill Turner, the parents of Liam (Robert Timothy Smith) in Dear Santa, an original Paramount+ family comedy. In the film, Liam mixes up a couple of letters on his "Dear Santa" note and gets a surprise when Satan (Jack Black) — not Santa — appears instead to wreak havoc in the young boy's world.
Dear Santa is produced by Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary filmmakers the Farrelly brothers. Bobby Farrelly directs Dear Santa, which is co-written by Peter Farrelly.
Brianne Howey and Amy Schumer in "Kinda Pregnant."
Amy Schumer stars as Lainy in Kinda Pregnant, about a woman who fakes a pregnancy and finds herself in a predicament when she meets and befriends a pregnant-for-real Megan (Brianne Howey) and falls for Megan's brother Josh (Will Forte).
All 30 episodes of Ginny & Georgia seasons 1, 2 and 3, starring Brianne Howey and Antonia Gentry, are streaming on Netflix.