Adrienne Wilkinson
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Adrienne Wilkinson is the voice of Maris Brood in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. In addition, she provided facial motion capture work for the video game. She appeared at Celebration IV for the Fan Club "Meet & Greet" session from 3:00–4:00 PM on May 28, 2007.
Adrienne Marie Wilkinson is of Irish, Scottish, English, Cherokee, Danish and German heritage. She graduated from Kickapoo High School in Springfield, the high school that Brad Pitt graduated from. After graduation, Adrienne moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue acting.
She was two years old when she started taking dance lessons and performed on stage as a dancer throughout her youth until she moved to Los Angeles to become an actress. She has two younger sisters and a younger brother. Her younger sister Tracey Bradley is a director and producer for Pulse Studios. Her youngest sister Aimee Wilkinson is a musician. The three sisters worked on the film Expectation together in 2005.
Adrienne Wilkinson is best known for her role of Livia/Eve, the sometimes warrior sometimes saint daughter of Xena on the popular TV series Xena: Warrior Princess, which was the most watched show in the world at the time and still airs in dozens of countries. She started on television in an episode of Sweet Valley High in 1996, and moved on to Saved By The Bell: The New Class, Chicken Soup for the Soul and in 2001 she had several guest appearances on MTV's show Undressed. In 2002 she starred as Nikki on the US version of the dramedy series As If. In 2003 she had a guest spot on the series Angel as a cheeky flapper from the 1920s, and as Linda Browning in an episode of NBC's popular soap opera Days of Our Lives. In 2005 she had guest appearances on the eighth season of the WB show Charmed as Julie Bennett (Phoebe Halliwell's "permanent" disguise), the ABC show Eyes and was the love interest of Dr. Ray Barnett on the hit NBC drama ER where the plot of a spectacular building collapse nearly killed her character.
Her film career is just taking off, with appearances in seven films released and screened in 2006 including the lead in Reflections directed by Barry Caldwell and starring Zoe Bell, James Morrison, Louis Lombadi, Jim Beaver and Matt Long, and Lakeshore Drive written and directed by Michael Grais and starring Adrienne and Peter Dobson. She had a small part in the 2001 film Pomegranate and was the female lead in 2002's Interceptor Force 2.
She is sought after for her voice over work which includes more than 40 characters in several videogames, animated videos and commercials.
Adrienne is also known for her charity works which includes a focus on literacy programs, animal welfare and children. Her website hosts an annual charity auction each November which helps to support families dealing with medical expenses.
