Barrett Doss is an American actress and singer. She is known for her role as Victoria Hughes in the ABC action drama series ''
Station 19
''Station 19'' is an American action and procedural drama television series created by Stacy McKee that premiered on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on March 22, 2018. It is the second spin-off of ''Grey's Anatomy'' (after '' Private Pr ...
''.
Life and career
Doss was born in
Minneapolis
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,
Minnesota
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.
[ Doss's parents divorced when she was a child, and she lived with her mother, Kelly Skalicky, who later married her partner, Veronica, who shared parenting responsibilities.][ Her family first lived in ]Albuquerque, New Mexico
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, for two years, and later she spent most of her childhood in Chicago
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, and then moved to New York City
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. She graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan.[ Doss attended ]New York University
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's Gallatin School of Individualized Study
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. In New York, she began performing on off-Broadway stage, and later on regional stage. In 2013, she made her television debut, appearing in an episode of NBC comedy series ''30 Rock
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''. She has appeared in series including ''Person of Interest
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'', ''Bull
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'' and ''Girls
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''. In 2014, She made her Broadway debut in the comedic play '' You Can't Take It with You'' appearing opposite James Earl Jones
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and Rose Byrne
Mary Rose Byrne (born 24 July 1979) is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film ''Dallas Doll'' (1994)
, and continued to act in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s. She gained her first leading film role in ...
.
In 2017, Doss starred as Rita Hanson, a female lead, in the Broadway musical comedy ''Groundhog Day
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'' opposite Andy Karl
Andy Karl (born August 27, 1974 as Andrew Karl Cesewski) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for performing in musical theatre specifically musicals adapted from successful movies. He has received several accolades including a Laur ...
. She received a 2017 Theatre World Award
The Theatre World Award is an American honor presented annually to actors and actresses in recognition of an outstanding New York City stage debut performance, either on Broadway or off-Broadway. It was first awarded for the 1945–1946 theatre se ...
for an Outstanding Broadway Debut Performance. Later that year, she was cast in a recurring role on the Netflix superhero series '' Iron Fist'' and has made her film debut appearing in an supporting role in the biographical drama ''Marshall
Marshall may refer to:
Places
Australia
*Marshall, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria
** Marshall railway station
Canada
* Marshall, Saskatchewan
* The Marshall, a mountain in British Columbia
Liberia
* Marshall, Liberia
Marshall Is ...
'' starring Chadwick Boseman
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. Later in 2017, she was cast in a series regular role on the ABC action drama series ''Station 19
''Station 19'' is an American action and procedural drama television series created by Stacy McKee that premiered on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on March 22, 2018. It is the second spin-off of ''Grey's Anatomy'' (after '' Private Pr ...
'', spin-off to ''Grey's Anatomy
''Grey's Anatomy'' is an American medical drama television series focusing on the personal and professional lives of surgical internship (medicine), interns, residency (medicine), residents, and attending physician, attendings at the fictional ...
''. The series debuted in 2018. In 2019, Doss also began appearing on a recurring basis on the sixteenth season of ''Grey's Anatomy''.
Filmography
References
External links
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Living people
American television actresses
American stage actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Minneapolis
New York University alumni
Theatre World Award winners
Year of birth missing (living people)