Crista Flanagan

Crista Flanagan (born ) the daughter of Bonnie Jerdon and David Flanagan. She graduated with a BS degree from the University of Evansville before earning an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. on which she appeared for the first three seasons from 2007 to 2009. She has also appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Practice, and ER, and had a recurring role on You've Got a Friend. She partnered up with the team behind Ask a Ninja to create a video podcast called Hope is Emo. Flanagan played the role of Hermione Granger in the 2007 film, Epic Movie. She later appeared as Ugly Betty/Oracle in the "sequel" Meet the Spartans, and in Disaster Movie played Juney, a parody of Juno, and Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus. She also appeared in Seltzer and Friedberg's 2010 project, Vampires Suck, as Eden Sullen. With the release of Best Night Ever in 2013, she became the most recurring actress in Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer films. She posed nude in the August 2010 issue of Playboy. She appeared in an episode of Big Time Rush as an evil producer named Kennedy.

Flanagan plays the title character in Hope Is Emo, an Internet comedy podcast that satirizes the life of a struggling emo girl named Hope. The series was created by Crista and the Ask a Ninja' team at Beatbox Giant Productions.

Flanagan currently works as an acting teacher and coach, teaching specialized lessons in on-camera acting and scene-study techniques, drawing from her background in improvisational comedy and television.

Filmography

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Television