Valorie Curry (born February 12, 1986) is an American actress. Her credits include ''
Veronica Mars
''Veronica Mars'' is an American teen neo-noir Mystery fiction, mystery Drama (film and television), drama television series created by screenwriter Rob Thomas (writer), Rob Thomas. The series is set in the fictional city, fictional town of Ne ...
'' (2005–06), ''
The Following
''The Following'' is an American crime thriller television series created by Kevin Williamson (screenwriter), Kevin Williamson, and jointly produced by Outerbanks Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television.
The The Following (season 1), first s ...
'' (2013–14) and ''
The Tick'' (2016–19). She also starred as the titular character in the
PlayStation 3
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tech demo ''Kara'' (2012) and reprised her role as Kara in the video game ''
Detroit: Become Human'' (2018). As of 2024, she plays the
superhero
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Firecracker
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in
Amazon Prime Video
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series ''
The Boys''.
Early life
Curry grew up with her brother David and sister Colleen in
Orange County, California
Orange County (officially the County of Orange; often initialized O.C.) is a county (United States), county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population ...
, graduating from
Sonora High School in
La Habra, California
La Habra – archaic spelling of – is a city in the northwestern corner of Orange County, California, United States. In the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,239.
History
Origin of name
The name refe ...
in 2004. She attended
California State University, Fullerton
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public research university in Fullerton, California, United States. With a total enrollment of more than 41,000, it has the largest student body of the California State ...
, graduating in 2008 with a
Bachelor of Arts
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in theater. She has also worked with
The Second City
The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise. It is the oldest improvisational theater troupe to be continuously based in Chicago, with training programs and live theaters in Toronto and New York. Since its debut in 1959, it has b ...
and Phantom Projects theatre groups, performing such roles as Jennie Mae in ''
The Diviners
''The Diviners'' is a novel by Margaret Laurence. Published by McClelland & Stewart in 1974, it was Laurence's final novel, and is considered one of the classics of Canadian literature.
The novel won the Governor General's Award for English-l ...
'' and Monique in ''Out, Out, Brief Candle!'', as well as roles in ''
Oklahoma!
''Oklahoma!'' is the first musical theater, musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, ''Green Grow the Lilacs (play), Green Grow the Lilacs''. Set in farm country outside the town of ...
'', ''
Bus Stop
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'', ''
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'', and ''
The Diary of Anne Frank''.
Personal life
Curry is a
lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...
. She previously
came out
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This is often framed and debated as a privacy issue, ...
as a
queer
''Queer'' is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non- cisgender. Originally meaning or , ''queer'' came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to ...
woman on
National Coming Out Day 2019.
Curry married actor
Sam Underwood
Sam Lewis Underwood (born 4 August 1987) is an English actor who portrayed the twins Luke and Mark Gray in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox thriller drama ''The Following'', Jake Otto in the AMC (TV channel), AMC series ''Fear the Walking Dead'' ...
, her ''The Following'' co-star, in 2016.
They separated in 2022 and divorced in April 2023.
Filmography
Film
Television
Music videos
Video games
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Actresses from Orange County, California
California State University, Fullerton alumni
American film actresses
American television actresses
American video game actresses
21st-century American actresses
American lesbian actresses
LGBTQ people from California
1980s births
American queer actors
Motion capture actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)