Whitney Avalon

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Whitney Avalon
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBrandeis University (B.A., 2003)
OccupationActress, writer, online producer, internet personality, singer, rapper
Known forYouTube videos
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2007–present
GenreMusic, comedy
Subscribers1.93 million[1]
Total views687.81 million[1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg 100,000 subscribers
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg 1,000,000 subscribers
Updated: 19 July 2020
Websitewhitneyavalon.com

Whitney Avalon is an American actress, writer, producer, singer, and rapper best known for creating the Princess Rap Battle series and other musical comedy on YouTube, where her channel has over 600 million views.[2][3][4]

Variety listed her in their 2015 Comedy Impact Report,[5] stating her work has "amassed over half a billion views" worldwide in a year. She was also named one of Cosmopolitan's "Internet's Most Fascinating" people in 2015.[6]

Princess Rap Battles[]

The Princess Rap Battles series was created by Whitney Avalon and features fictional female characters facing off against each other in the form of a rap battle. Whitney Avalon appears in every episode as a major rap opponent.

She posted the first Princess Rap Battle "Snow White vs. Elsa" in September 2014.[6] Since then, she has posted more rap battles on the channel, including "Galadriel vs. Leia", "Mrs. Claus vs. Mary Poppins", and "Cinderella vs. Belle" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, who is a fan of the series.[6] Subsequent episodes include "Maleficent vs. Daenerys" starring Yvonne Strahovski,[4][7] "Katniss vs. Hermione" starring Molly Quinn,[4] "Freya vs. Ravenna"[8] and "Rapunzel & Flynn vs. Anna & Kristoff". Avalon then posted two Wonderland vs. Oz themed battles: "Dorothy vs. Alice" starring Emily Kinney, Ryan McCartan, Jason Rogel, and Joey Richter[4] followed by "The Queen of Hearts vs. The Wicked Witch of the West" with Alyssa Preston, Ben Giroux and (like all the battles) Avalon herself.[4] The most recent episode of the series featured Harley Quinn, Black Canary, and Huntress teaming up.

No. Rap Battle Release date Views
(in millions)		 Special guest stars
1 Snow White vs. Elsa September 17, 2014 238.28 Katja Glieson
2 Galadriel vs. Leia November 25, 2014 31 Sara Erikson
3 Mrs. Claus vs. Mary Poppins December 22, 2014 37.46 Alyssa Preston and Jim O'Heir
4 Cinderella vs. Belle March 11, 2015 100.78 Sarah Michelle Gellar
5 Maleficent vs. Daenerys June 24, 2015 41.8 Yvonne Strahovski
6 Katniss vs. Hermione November 18, 2015 44.96 Molly C. Quinn
7 Ravenna vs. Freya April 6, 2016 37.5 Laura Marano and Derek Theler
8 Rapunzel vs. Anna November 29, 2016 30.4 Eliza Dushku, Tom Lenk, James Maslow and Jim O'Heir
9 Dorothy vs. Alice November 9, 2018 12.61 Emily Kinney, Ryan McCartan, Jason Rogel, and Joey Richter
10 The Queen of Hearts vs. The Wicked Witch of the West November 23, 2019 2.69 Alyssa Preston and Ben Giroux
11 Harley Quinn & Birds of Prey February 15, 2020 2.31 Mary Kate Wiles and SWOOP

Avalon has created numerous parody music videos particularly of Disney releases and tv shows such as Rick and Morty and The Good Place

Appearance in other media[]

Avalon graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University in 2003 with a B.A. in Theater Arts.[9][10] She is a working actress in television, theater, and commercials.[6] In 2013, she played the mom in the controversial Cheerios commercial "Just Checking", featuring an interracial family.[11] She has appeared in television series such as Speechless, Outlaw, The Big Bang Theory, Days of Our Lives, Monday Mornings, Girl Meets World, Love That Girl!, and Jane the Virgin. She played Mary Shelley in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party and was a series regular in Hyperlinked, a YouTube Premium series distributed by Disney.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "About Whitney Avalon". YouTube.
  2. ^ Sifferlin, Alexandra (March 14, 2015). "Watch This Princess Rap Battle Between Cinderella and Belle". Time.
  3. ^ Berkey, Rachael (September 24, 2014). "Disney Princesses Throw Down in an Epic Rap Battle". Nerdist.
  4. ^ a b c d e "YouTube: WhitneyAvalon". Retrieved July 8, 2015 – via YouTube.
  5. ^ "Variety Comedy Impact Report 2015: Whitney Avalon Digital Princess". November 10, 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d Kim, Heeseung (n.d.). "Just When You Thought Disney Princesses Were Played Out, Whitney Avalon Created Viral *~MaGiC~* Again". Cosmopolitan.
  7. ^ Riley, Jenelle. "'Astronaut Wives Club' Star Yvonne Strahovski Enlisted for Next 'Princess Rap Battle'". Variety. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
  8. ^ "Freya vs. Ravenna". IMDB Retrieved May 27, 2016.
  9. ^ Farrell, Kerri (March 11, 2014). "Alumna enjoying success in Hollywood". alumni.brandeis.edu.
  10. ^ "Whitney Avalon: actor, singer, writer, producer, princess rap battler, sillyface". WHITNEY AVALON. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  11. ^ "Whitney Avalon, Actress In Cheerios Ad Featuring Mixed Race Family: 'I Thought It Was Adorable'". Huffington Post. June 6, 2013.

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