Courtney Webb

Courtney Webb

Courtney Webb, real name Laura Franki Webb, is a British actress and writer. She was born on January 20, 1988 in London, England to a Colombian mother and British father.

Webb has released eleven movies in her 20 years. She has established herself as a voice-over actress. She also attended BRIT School for the Performing Arts in Croydon.

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Biography

The beginning

Webb started acting at the age of five, when she appeared in the West End production of A Tale of Two Cities.

By age 11 she had started acting in minor films such as Girl and the film version of the video game Blood Bath. She also started getting roles in international arthouse movies.

Solidifying her career

At the age of 16, In 2004, Courtney appeared in El Rey, a movie about Colombian gangsters which got her a nomination at the Colombian Internet Movie Awards. Also in 1999 she tried out for the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies but lost out to Emma Watson. Courtney also voiced anime shows such as Diamond Daydreams and also voiced on British television, most notably 2DTV

Current work

In July 2006, Webb's talent agency debunked rumors that she was going to play Miku in the upcoming movie Fatal Frame; instead, she will be starring in The Cottage with fellow soap star turned movie actress Jennifer Ellison. She dropped the role of starring in the film version of the videogame Fatal Frame as the heroine Miku Hinasaki so she filmed a part in the film version of the videogame Forbidden Siren.

Author

According to Webb's agency and many fansites, Webb is starting a career as a writer with her first novel already seeing a release in 2008. She now goes under her real name of Laura Franki Webb. Her first novel is that of the fantasy genre, she has already started promotion for it, with its own Myspace account and a free podcast available at the Writer's Cafe.

Webb also has a manga-influenced comic entitled RockGod which is currently in production, the title will be out in 2009 and most likely be published by Tokyopop.[dated info]

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