Early and personal life

Evigan was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Pamela C. Serpe, a dancer, model, and actress, and actor Greg Evigan. She has Polish (from her paternal grandmother) and Italian (from her maternal grandfather) heritage. She is the youngest of three siblings, with brother Jason and sister Vanessa Lee. She has studied dance since she was nine. She is one of the singers and plays keyboards in the group Moorish Idol. She also undertook a speech and communication degree at Los Angeles Valley College. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where she usually has Fanchats with fans through UStream, and has her own YouTube channel, in which she posts Work out videos.

Career

A professional dancer, Evigan has appeared in music videos for Linkin Park, Flo Rida, T-Pain and Enrique Iglesias. She has also had small roles in television series and films such as Bottom's Up, Something Sweet and Fear Itself.

In 2008, she won the breakout role of Andie West in the sequel to the 2006 dance drama Step Up, Step Up 2: The Streets. Filming took place in late 2007 in Baltimore and was released February 14, 2008. The film, which met with negative reviews with Rotten Tomatoes (receiving 24%), achieved box office success earning a worldwide gross of $148,424,320. Both Evigan and co-star Robert Hoffman earned the Best Kiss Award at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.

In 2009, S. Darko, a sequel to the 2001 cult-hit horror Donnie Darko, was released. Evigan played Samantha Darko's best friend, Corey. The film stars James Lafferty and Ed Westwick. A theatrical release was scrapped and was released Straight-to-DVD on May 12, 2009. Unlike Donnie Darko, the film received negative reviews.

In August 2008, Summit Entertainment announced Evigan has signed on to portray the central character Cassidy Tappan in the remake of the low-budget horror film Sorority Row. The screenplay was written by Good Luck Chuck writer Josh Stolberg and directed by Stewart Hendler. The film was budgeted at $12,500,000. Evigan stars alongside Audrina Patridge, Rumer Willis and Jamie Chung. Sorority Row was released on September 11, 2009 and debuted at No. 6 at the box office and earned worldwide $26,735,797. Critical reception was mixed to negative. Evigan's performance was well received by critics. The leading female cast members earned a ShoWest Award for "Female Stars of Tomorrow" in April 2009. The DVD release was February 23, 2010.

In February 2009, Evigan announced in an interview she has signed on for another remake. The film will be a remake of the cult slasher horror film Mother's Day and will be directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, best known for his work with previous Lionsgate films such as the Saw trilogy. Bousman previously directed Evigan in an episode of Fear Itself in 2008. The film will co-star A. J. Cook and Jaime King. The film has suffered numerous push backs, and was finally released on May 8, 2012 on DVD and Blu-ray. The film was also part of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

In January 2009, Evigan was confirmed by Lionsgate to star in Burning Bright. She plays the lead female role, Kelly Taylor. In the film, "A young woman and her autistic brother find themselves trapped in their house with a ravenous tiger during a hurricane". Critical reception was extremely positive. Despite this, the film was announced to be released Straight-to-DVD on August 17, 2010.

Evigan played the central character in the indie drama romance film Subject: I Love You.

She stars in The Devil's Carnival, a short film that got a 30 city world tour that began in April 15, 2012. Evigan later confirmed that she had reprised her role in its sequel, The Devil's Carnival: Alleluia!, which was released in late 2015.

On 2011, during a UStream, Evigan announced that she was working in a TV series with her family, though nothing has been confirmed yet. She was scheduled to star as the protagonist of Left for Red: Betrayal, the first of a trilogy which centered on a young woman seeking vengeance on the soldiers who sold her to a sex trafficking group, but has been shelved due to budget issues.

In 2014, Evigan reprised her role as Andie West in the fifth installment of the Step Up series, Step Up: All In. She was later cast Love Is All You Need? as Jude, a heterosexual woman living in a world where homosexuality is right, and heterosexuality is the wrong.

In 2015, Evigan announced, via Twitter that she would be recurring, alongside Danny Trejo in the second season of the Action-Vampire TV Series From Dusk Till Dawn as Sonja, "an American expatriate working as a tattoo artist in a Mexican Mercado - who also has a sideline forging papers and passports out of her back room". The season premiered August 25, 2015 on El Rey.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Spectre	Aubrey South	Also known as House of the Damned
2004	Something Sweet	Wannabe Actress #1/Feature Pool
2006	Bottoms Up	High School Girl
2008	Step Up 2: The Streets	Andrea "Andie" West
2009	S. Darko	Corey Richardson
2009	Sorority Row	Cassidy Tappan
2010	Burning Bright	Kelly Taylor	Sings end credit song, I'm Free
2010	Subject: I Love You	Butterfly
2010	Monster Heroes	Svector Orlaff
2010	Mother's Day	Annette Langston	Co-wrote and sang end credit song, Better Than Yesterday
2011	Rites of Passage	Penelope
2012	Stash House	Emma Nash
2012	Devil's Carnival, TheThe Devil's Carnival	Ms. Merrywood
2013	Mine Games	Lyla
2013	She Loves Me Not	Charlotte
2013	Paranormal Island	Ivy
2014	Lap Dance	Tasha
2014	Puncture Wounds	Tanya
2014	Step Up: All In	Andie West
2015	The Devil's Carnival: Alleluia!	Ms. Merrywood
2015	ToY	Chloe
2016	Love Is All You Need?	Jude Klein
2016	Monday at 11:01 A.M.	Olivia

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Fear Itself	Helen	Episode: "New Year's Day"
2012	A Star For Christmas	Cassie	TV Movie
2013	Longmire	Brandy	Episode: "Carcasses"
2015	From Dusk till Dawn	Sonja Lam	Recurring; 8 Episodes
2015	Once Upon a Holiday	Lead: Katherine "Katie" Hollington	TV Movie

Music Video

Year	Title	Artist
2003	Numb	Linkin Park
2008	Low	Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
2008	Push	Enrique Iglesias
2008	Church	T-Pain
2008	I Don't Think When I Dance	Herself
2009	Get U Home	Shwayze

Songs

Year	Title	Artist
2008	I Don't Think When I Dance	Herself
2010	I'm Free	Herself
2010	Better Than Yesterday	Herself
2012	Beautiful Stranger	Herself & Kevin "Ogre" Ogilive
2015	Shovel & Bones	Herself & Terrance Zdunich

Singles

Year	Title	Artist	Album
2008	I Don't Think When I Dance	Herself	I Don't Think When I Dance - Single

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2008	MTV Movie Awards	Best Kiss (with Robert Hoffman)	Step Up 2: The Streets	Won
2009	Sho West Awards	Female Star of Tomorrow	Sorority Row	Won

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