GENDER: Female
HAIR: Dark Brown/Medium Brown/Light Brown
HEIGHT: 5' 7"
AGE: 32
BIRTHDAY: October 28, 1985
CAREER: Actress
KNOWN FOR: She is known for playing the role of Spencer Hastings in Freeform's Pretty Little Liars (2010-2017). Born in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of producers Donald P. Bellisario and Deborah Pratt. Bellisario made her acting debut in her father's 1988 film Last Rites at the age of three. She continued to have roles produced by her father, mainly in television shows such as Quantum Leap, First Monday, and NCIS, and in 1998, she acted in the direct-to-video comedy film Billboard Dad. In 2010, she received praise for her leading performance in the film Consent for which she won the Vision Fest Award for Best Acting by a Female Lead and the FirstGlance Philadelphia Award for Best Actress. In 2009, Bellisario landed the lead role of Spencer Hastings in the Freeform series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017). For her performance, she has won two Teen Choice Awards out of six nominations and a Young Hollywood Award. In addition to her work on Pretty Little Liars, Bellisario also starred in the WIGS episode series Lauren, for which she received critical acclaim and won the New York Film Festival Award for Best Performance by an Actress and was nominated for the Streamy Award for Best Female Performance - Drama. She has appeared in, produced, and co-written multiple short films and indie projects; in 2016, she made her directorial debut with the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of Pretty Little Liars, "In the Eye Abides the Heart". She has also starred, co-starred and/or appeared in those of the following films; Unspoken (short film), Anchor House (short film), Intersect (short film), Before the Cabin Burned Down (short film), Consent, Peep World, A November (short film), Please to Meet You, The Come Up (short film), Joyful Girl (short film), C.O.G., Exiles (short film; writer and executive-producer), Immediately Afterlife (short film), Surf Noir (short film) Martyrs, Still a Rose (short film), Amy (short film), We Are Here (short film; writer), In the Shadows of the Rainbow (short film), Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins, Feed (also writer and producer), Clara (post-production, 2017) and Where'd You Go Bernadette (post-production, 2019). She has also starred, co-starred and/or appeared in those of the following television programs/shows; Tequila and Bonetti as Teresa Garcia (2 episodes) in 1992, JAG as Erin Terry in Episode: "Tiger, Tiger" in 1998, First Monday as Kimberly Baron (2 episodes) in 2002, Suits as Claire Bowden (2 episodes) in 2014-2015 and Sister Cities (television film) as Baltimore Baxter in 2016. She has also starred, co-starred and/or appeared in those of the following web series; Lauren as Sergeant Lauren Weil (main role) in 2012-2013, Pa-gents with Chris Pine as Cathryn Crest in 2014 and Instagram Intervention with Troian Bellisario as herself in 2015. She has directed the following; Pretty Little Liars episode "In the Eye Abides the Heart" in 2017 and Famous In Love episode "Guess Who's (Not) Coming to Sundance?" in 2018. She has been nominated for the following awards; Teen Choice Awards for Choice Summer TV Star: Female for Pretty Little Liars in 2011, IAWTV Award for Best Female Performance – Drama for Lauren in 2013, Streamy Award for Best Female Performance – Drama for Lauren in 2013, Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Actress: Drama for Pretty Little Liars in 2014, Teen Choice Awards for Choice Summer TV Star: Female for Pretty Little Liars in 2015, Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Actress: Drama for Pretty Little Liars in 2016 and Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Actress: Drama for Pretty Little Liars in 2017. She has won the following awards; Vison Fest for Best Acting – Female Lead for Consent in 2010, FirstGlance Philadelphia for Best Actress for Consent in 2010, Young Hollywood Awards Cast to Watch (shared with Ashley Benson, Lucy Hale and Shay Mitchell) for Pretty Little Liars in 2011, Teen Choice Awards for Choice Summer TV Star: Female for Pretty Little Liars in 2012, New York Festivals for Best Performance by an Actress for Lauren in 2013, Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Actress: Drama for Pretty Little Liars in 2013 and Television Industry Advocacy Awards for Support to National Eating Disorder Awareness for Feed in 2017.
