Date of Birth

8 December 1993, Texarkana, Texas, USA

Birth Name

Molly Caitlyn Quinn

Height

5' 5" (1.65 m)

Mini Biography

Molly C. Quinn is an American actress. She is known for voicing Bloom, the main character on Nickelodeon's revival of Winx Club (2004) from 2011 to 2015. She also played Alexis Castle, the daughter of the lead in ABC television series Castle (2009). Molly started acting at a young age and made a name for herself in the industry with a series of power-packed performances in television series, films, and stage productions. She is also a voice actress and has provided her voice to a number of characters in animated films and TV series. She has appeared in music videos as well. The ambitious young lady turned an associate producer with the movie Hansel & Gretel Get Baked (2013) in 2013. Her other major works include The Sacrifice (2009), 'Winx Club: Il segreto del Regno Perduto (2007), We're the Millers (2013) and Welcome to Happiness (2015).She won the 'Best Newcomer, Short Film' award at the Monaco International Film Festival in 2009, for her outstanding work in the short film The Sacrifice (2009), in which she played the character of Esmee Johnson'.

Molly Quinn started her acting career at a very early age. She performed in her community's performance of the two-act ballet 'The Nutcracker' when she was just six years old and came to the notice of retired director and producer Martin Beck who recognized her potential. He agreed to coach her and gave her weekly lessons. . When she was twelve, Molly went for an audition at the Young Actors Studio and performed for the director Linda Seto as well as a group of representatives from the Osbrink Talent Agency. After impressing both Linda and the representatives from the agency, she took intensive acting training. She eventually signed with Osbrink Talent Agency and then later switched to Management 360. . Molly made her film debut with a short role in the American comedy film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) in 2007 and later went on to make three more short appearances in films like My One and Only (2009), Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009), and The Sacrifice (2009) before getting her big break in the television industry. . In 2009, she was signed by Beacon Pictures and ABC Studios to play the character of 'Alexis Castle', the daughter of the lead character 'Richard Castle' (a famous mystery novelist), in the American crime-comedy-drama television series Castle (2009). This was her very first major project which provided her a platform to properly showcase her talent. . After the successful launch of her character in Castle (2009), Molly started getting better offers, both in films and television shows. . She landed the role of Bloom in the Nickelodeon-produced relaunch of the animated TV series Winx Club (2004) in 2011 and appeared on the show until 2015. In the meantime, she also voiced the same character in the two CGI films adapted from the series.

Trivia

• Has three nieces.
• Castle: Dreamworld (2013) is the first episode of Castle (2009) in which she is credited with her middle initial.

Trademarks:

• Red hair
  

Quotes

• [on her on- and off-screen relationship with Susan Sullivan, who plays Martha Rodgers]: Susan is such a classy lady. She's so different from her character. In real life, she's very intelligent... She's a free thinker. She has a lot of really good advice and she has a really good head on her shoulders. She's seen a lot, she's done a lot, she knows a lot. Her character Martha, to me at least... thinks that she knows everything, but doesn't really know much. Martha was probably brought up in a ritzy home and was a victim of the '60s.
• My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.
• I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.
• I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I'm going out for a role or something, that's when I really get very territorial about things.
• Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.
• One thing about me is that I don't like being told I can't do something.
• I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.
• I loved doing Supergirl, but I would love to do Batgirl. I would absolutely love to do a live-action Batgirl!
• I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.
• I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.
• When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That's one of the great things about acting - letting yourself go.
• If you have the opportunity to watch Nathan Fillion or Jim Carrey do a scene, it's like getting a Ph.D. in acting.
• With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read.
• I love my dad; I'm a daddy's girl, all the way.
• Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.
• I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.
• I really want to do a dark character. Not really a bad guy, but someone dark and mysterious. Where everyone says, 'Ooh, it has to be her!' and at the end you find out it isn't. Just someone who looks guilty.
• Who doesn't love Veronica Mars?
• The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.