Heather Elizabeth Morris - Career

Morris' first significant appearance was in 2006 on So You Think You Can Dance Season 2 where she made the "green mile" but failed to make the final 20 by a vote of 3-2.

Heather Elizabeth Morris

she moved to Los Angeles and actively pursued a career in dancing. Her big break came in 2007 via Beyoncé. Heather Morris was one of Beyoncé's backup dancers on The Beyoncé Experience world tour and, following that, worked again with Beyoncé on a mini "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" promotional tour that included 2008 performances on the American Music Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Today, and MTV's Total Request Live Finale. She also danced backup for Beyoncé and Tina Turner at the 50th Grammy Awards in 2008. She later appeared in a small role in the movie Fired Up, where she met choreographer Zach Woodlee. Following that film, Woodlee brought Morris in to dance on other shows he was choreographing, including episodes of Eli Stone and Swingtown, the movie Bedtime Stories, and eventually Glee.

Heather Morris was taking acting classes and actively pursuing an acting career when Beyoncé asked her to join another world tour. Morris, however, turned her down. "She said, 'I'm really sad because I'm losing my token white girl!'" Morris told interviewer Tim O'Shei during a Live! Starring ... You! program at Hard Rock Cafe in Niagara Falls, NY, in December 2009.

Shortly thereafter, Heather Morris was asked by Woodlee to teach the choreography for Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" dance to the Glee actors. At the same time, the show was looking for a third cheerleader, and Morris ended up landing the role of Brittany. Initially a background character who hardly ever spoke, the role grew as writers discovered Morris had a gift for delivering one-liners. Jarrett Wieselman of the New York Post opined that Morris has "emerged as one of the funniest second bananas on TV right now" and the LA Times wrote of having a "...comedy crush on Morris, who plays the galactically dim Glee Club cheerleader Brittany".

When a promotional clip for the episode "Sectionals" indicated that Brittany Pierce and Santana Lopez had slept together, Dorothy Snarker, writing for lesbian entertainment website After Ellen, praised the pairing, referring to them by the portmanteau "Brittana". Snarker called the two her "new favorite Glee pairing", commenting that: "While Heather Morris (Brittany) and Naya Rivera (Santana) have had minimal screen time, they've made it count. Heather in particular has brought the laughs as the Cheerio least likely to get a Mensa invitation. Never mind Finn and Rachel — I'm on Team Brittana now."

Due to the positive response to her character, Heather Morris was promoted to official series regular status during season two. She was at the center of the second episode, "Britney/Brittany", (a tribute to Britney Spears) and made her singing debut covering two Spears songs solo and one featuring Naya Rivera. As on Glee, Morris is best friends in real life with co-star Rivera.

In May 2010 Heather Morris had nde photos leaked from an earlier professional photo shoot. When asked about the photos, Morris responded, “I kind of thought it might happen, I understand completely where it came from. For me, I think they are beautiful. It’s not something I’m ashamed of.”

In December 2010, Heather Morris was named the Celebrity Style Ambassador for FLIRT! Cosmetics, an Estee Lauder cosmetics line.

Heather Morris co-wrote a video for Funny or Die called "Nuthin' But A Glee Thang", a parody of the Dr. Dre song "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" featuring Snoop Dogg, co-starring Sofia Vergara and Glee castmates Matthew Morrison, Cory Monteith, Harry Shum, Jr. & Naya Rivera that was uploaded on January 10, 2011.

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