Felicia Day

About

Felicia Day is an American actress and vlogger. She is best known for her roles on fantasy TV shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, in addition to writing, producing and starring in her own web comedy series The Guild and co-creating the premium YouTube channel Geek & Sundry.

Acting Career

Day made her acting debut in the 2001 film Strings, acting in TV movies and series throughout the 2000s including an eight episode arch in the final season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.^[1] From 2007 to 2013, Day created, produced and starred in the original web comedy series The Guild. In 2008 she co-starred in the popular musical webseries Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog. In 2012 she guest stared on Supernatural, and has been brought back for four episodes over three seasons. Furthermore, Day has also ventured into voice acting for video games, including Rock of the Dead, Fallout: New Vegas, Dragon Age II and Guild Wars 2.

Online History

As of February 2014 Day’s Twitter account^[2] has over 2.21 million followers, and her Facebook Page^[3] has over 903,000 followers.

The Guild

The Guild, a web series created by Day, follows six people who play a fictional online video game similar to World of Warcraft. The series premiered in 2007 and ran for six seasons, concluding in 2013.^[6] It was nominated for two PGA awards in 2012 and 2013 for Outstanding Web Series and Outstanding Digital Series, respectively, and in 2009 Rolling Stone named it one of “The Net’s Best Serial Shows.”^[7] Day starred in all 63 episodes as Codex, a gamer and violinist.

Personal YouTube Channel

Day created her personal YouTube channel on March 11th, 2008 and as of February 2014 the channel has more than 130,000 subscribers. The channel features videos chronicling Day’s foreign travels, behind the scenes footage from The Guild, and recorded Google Hangouts for her paranormal romance book club Vaginal Fantasy.^[5]

Her most viewed video titled “I open a BOX! It’s Guild Wars II hehehehehe” which features her opening an advanced issue collectors edition of the video game Guild Wars 11 was uploaded on August 7th, 2012. As of February 2014 it has over 520,000 views.

Geek and Sundry

Day created the YouTube channel Geek & Sundry on August 5th, 2011.^[4] As of February 2014 the channel has over 850, 000 subscribers. The channel features a schedule of shows including “Co-Optitude,” hosted by Day and her brother Ryon Day that covers retro video games, “Taking Comics” hosted by Amy Dallen that covers comic books, and “TableTop,” hosted by actor Wil Wheaton that covers board games. Its Vlog channel^[8] was created on April 24th, 2013, and has over 72,000 subscribers. It features one vlog every week day with two shows featured on Monday. The vlogs cover various geeky topics including cosplay, gaming, literature, and DIY with vloggers from the US and the UK.

Personal Life

Felicia Day was born on June 28th, 1979, in Huntsville, Alabama. She attended the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in mathematics and violin performance.