Azura Skye


Azura Dawn Storozynski, known professionally as Azura Skye, is an American actress who first gained recognition for her role as Jane on The WB television sitcom Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane. She also had a 2-episode role as Cassie Newton in the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Early life

Skye was born in her grandmother's home in Northridge, California. Her parents being amateur gemologists, named her after azurite, a semi-precious mineral. Azure is a color often associated with the sky; thus the middle name "Dawn" and the stage name "Azura Skye". Being from a show business family, she started her career as a stage actress at the age of three and toured Europe with the Santa Monica Playhouse theatre group at the age of eleven. She received her education at the Brentwood School.
Her grandfather, Brad Johnson, who died before her birth, was an actor known for his role as deputy sheriff Lofty Craig in the Western series, Annie Oakley, as well as a real estate developer in Los Angeles.

Career

Skye made her first television appearance on the show Total Security in 1997. Then she played a couple of smaller parts on Touched by an Angel and Chicago Hope, and made appearances in a number of television movies before she was cast for the role as "Jane" in Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane in 1999. Zoe..., as the show was renamed for the second season, was a short-lived sitcom about four teenagers – Skye's character being one of them. In 2000, the same year that Zoe... ended, Skye's first major movie production premiered. In 28 Days, she starred alongside Sandra Bullock and Viggo Mortensen.
Two years later, in 2002, Skye appeared in two episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the episode "Help" she plays Cassie Newton, a teen girl at Sunnydale High who possesses the power of precognition and who foresees her own death, and whom Buffy tries to help. In the episode "Conversations with Dead People", she plays an incarnation of the First Evil, impersonating a ghost of Cassie, who attempts to persuade Willow to commit suicide by pretending to bring a message from her dead girlfriend Tara.
Also in 2002, she appeared in Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister alongside Matthew Goode and Stockard Channing.
During this time she also appeared in other projects, doing smaller parts. She has played Susie Keaton in four episodes of ' and has made guest appearances in shows such as Smallville and Judging Amy. Skye has also played parts in movies like Bandits, The Salton Sea and Red Dragon.
Skye appeared as Ruby Bates in the 2006 drama Heavens Fall. In 2007, she starred as Sara in 20 Years After and in What We Do Is Secret. In 2008, she had a major part in the American remake of the Japanese horror movie One Missed Call, which was released in the US on January 4, 2008.
Her most recent television appearances include the voice of Veronica in an episode of American Dad!, fall 2007 episodes of House M.D., Bones and Ghost Whisperer, a 2009 episode of The Mentalist, and Fiona in '.

Filmography


YearTitleRoleNotes
1997Total SecurityEpisode: "A Man for Half a Season"
1997Touched by an AngelChinaEpisode: "Children of the Night"
1997Chicago HopeCashierEpisode: "Brain Salad Surgery"
1997AloneJocelynTV movie
1998Cab to CanadaJet TV movie
1999–2000Zoe, Duncan, Jack and JaneJane Cooper24 episodes
2000Batman BeyondDeanna Clay Episode: "Inqueling"
2001Gideon's CrossingHaleyEpisode: "The Crash"
2002SmallvilleAmy PalmerEpisode: "Shimmer"
2002Confessions of an Ugly StepsisterIris FisherTV movie
2002John DoeKarenEpisode: "Unaired Pilot"
2002Judging AmyRhonda PettyEpisode: "Lost in the System"
2002Buffy the Vampire SlayerCassie NewtonEpisode: "Help"
Episode: "Conversations with Dead People"
2003Expert WitnessTV movie
2003'AmberEpisode: "Homewrecker's Ball"
2003–05'Susie Barnam Keaton4 episodes
2005MissingMarissaEpisode: "Have You Seen This Man?"
2006American Dad!Veronica Episode: "The American Dad After School Special"
2006–07'Skyler8 episodes
2007Mr. and Mrs. SmithJEpisode: "Pilot"
2007HouseIreneEpisode: "Guardian Angels"
2007BonesAmber KipplerEpisode: "Mummy in the Maze"
2007Ghost WhispererSophie OwensEpisode: "Double Exposure"
2009'Tamzin Dove / Sarah JonesEpisode: "Red Rum"
2009HawthorneMary BarthEpisode: "Yielding"
2010Cold CaseClaire Shepard Episode: "Bullet"
2011American Dad!Cookie Episode: "School Lies"
2011'Fiona4 episodes
2012GrimmRobin SteinkellnerEpisode: "The Thing with Feathers"
2014Working the EngelsSandy Engel-Karinsky-
2018RiverdaleDarla2 episodes
2019CharmedHelen McGaintryEpisode: "Deconstructing Harry"

YearTitleRoleNotes
2011'Ashara ZavrosVideo game
2013Dr. Hilary MassarVideo game