Jennifer Gillis

Jennifer Kristine Gillis is a Canadian singer, dancer and actress with an extensive resume in musical theatre, television, singing, radio, recording, and animated voiceover work. Gillis is most noted for performing in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webbers CBC TV reality show Over the Rainbowa competition to be cast as the leading role of Dorothy Gale in Lloyd Webbers forthcoming production of The Wizard of Oz in Toronto, Ontario. Being the youngest aspiring singer in the competition, she singularly represented her province of British Columbia and as a result was named the Top 6th musical theatre performer in all of Canada. Since Over the Rainbow, Gillis sang the Canadian national anthem O Canada for the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario on Canada Day in 2013. She aspires to become a Broadway actress someday and wants to dedicate her life to performing.

Gillis was born and raised in Coquitlam, British Columbia, the older sister of Rachelle Gillis, also an actress, who has appeared in the Disney XD film Pants on Fire. She was involved in the performing arts industry from a very young age and at the age of seven, Gillis was scouted by Carrier Talent Management, a talent agency in Central Vancouver and began her career as a TV actress. On screen, Gillis appeared in many television commercials for toy companies such as Mattel . Gillis then performed animated voiceover work. Gillis appeared in the TV series Bratz and also did many radio commercials for companies such as John Casablancas, Newland Homes, The Canadian Cancer Society, Shaw, and BLT DVD Productions. Gillis attended Gleneagle Secondary School, concentrating in the performing arts. Gillis appeared in many of her schools musical theatre productions, playing such roles as Millie Dilmount in the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie, Gertrude Mcfuzz in Seussical the Musical, Cindy Lou Wh

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