Molly Caitlyn Quinn (born October 8, 1993) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, film, and television. Her roles include Alexis Castle, daughter of the title character on ABC's ''

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'', and the voice of Bloom, one of the main characters in the

Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (nicknamed Nick) is an American pay television channel and the flagship property of the Nickelodeon Group, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on April 1, 1979, as the first ca ...

revival of ''Winx Club''.

Life and career

Molly Quinn was born in

Texarkana, Texas Texarkana is a city in Bowie County, Texas, United States, in the Ark-La-Tex region. Located approximately from Dallas, Texarkana is a twin cities, twin city with neighboring Texarkana, Arkansas. The Texas city's population was 36,193 at the 2 ...

. She began taking weekly acting lessons from director and producer Martin Beck after performing in a community production of ''

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'' at age six. In the sixth grade, she auditioned at the Young Actors Studio, and after six months of "intensive ctingtraining", signed with the Osbrink agency and Management 360. From 2009 to 2016, she starred in the ABC mystery drama series ''

'' as Alexis Castle, the lead character's daughter. She also played the character Sally Campbell in one episode. From 2011 to 2015, Quinn performed the lead role of Bloom in

's revival of the animated series ''

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''. At first, she tried a "cartoony" voice for her character. Nickelodeon advised her to use her real voice instead, saying, "No, we want voices of real girls this time around." Quinn also voiced Bloom in the re-records of the first and second films based on the series. In March 2014, Quinn appeared as the voice of the sentient computer Fey, in the episode "Numbers" of the podcast series ''

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''. In 2021, she starred in the horror movie '' Agnes''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Quinn, Molly 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Texas American child actresses American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses American voice actresses Living people People from Texarkana, Texas 1993 births