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Kathryn Felicia Day (born June 28, 1979) is an American actress, singer, writer, and web series creator. She is the creator and star of the web series The Guild (2007–2013), a show loosely based on her life as a gamer. She also wrote and starred in the Dragon Age web series (2011). She is a founder of the online media company Geek & Sundry, best known for hosting the show Critical Role between 2015 and 2019. Day was a member of the board of directors of the International Academy of Web Television from December 2009 until August 2012.
On television, Day has played Vi in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2003) and Dr. Holly Marten in Eureka (2011), and had a recurring role as Charlie Bradbury on Supernatural (2012–2015, 2018–2020). She has also acted in films such as Bring It On Again (2004), as well as the Internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008). In April 2017, she began appearing as Kinga Forrester in Mystery Science Theater 3000.
She was a National Merit Scholar (1995) and graduated as valedictorian of her class. An accomplished violinist, Day was accepted to the Juilliard School of Music but chose to attend the University of Texas at Austin on a full scholarship in violin performance. She double majored in mathematics and music performance, and graduated at the age of 19 in the top 4% of her class. She is also an avid player of a wide variety of video game genres. Much of her work on The Guild web series was based on her personal experience with video games, especially when she played World of Warcraft.
Day also created a song and music video called "(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar", featuring the cast dressed up as their in-game personae. The final moments of the music video itself also detailed that the release date for the third season of Day's The Guild would be August 25, 2009. A second song and Bollywood style video "Game On" was released prior to the premiere of the fourth season of The Guild. A third and final music video, called "I'm the One That's Cool", features the members of the cast in the guise of an alternative band performing at a local venue, intercut with scenes of the cast as younger versions of their characters experiencing bullying at the hands of "cooler" and more popular kids while at school.
The Guild has won multiple awards, including the Greenlight Award for Best Original Digital Series Production at the South by Southwest festivals,Press Release. "The Guild And "Knock Off" Take Top Honors At The Greenlight Awards" , ON Networks Inc. March 11, 2008. Retrieved on November 5, 2008. several IAWTV Awards, including Best Comedy Series, the YouTube Awards for Best Series, 2007 YouTube Video Awards , List of 2007 Winners. Retrieved on November 5, 2008. the Yahoo! Video Award for Best Series, and 2009 Streamy Awards for Best Comedy Web Series, Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series, and Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series.
In 2012, Day created the web series Tabletop with Wil Wheaton. She was an executive producer for the series and appeared regularly as a guest. In the same vein, in 2015, she suggested to the original cast of Critical Role to begin streaming their tabletop home game as a show. In 2013, Geek & Sundry and Atlas Games worked together to release a promotional pack for the card game Gloom for TableTop Day 2013 with a Felicia Day, Guild Goddess card.
In August 2014, Geek and Sundry was acquired by Legendary to produce content alongside of Chris Hardwick's Nerdist Industries, with Day retaining creative control. On January 11, 2016, Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group announced that it concluded an agreement with shareholders to acquire Legendary Entertainment for $3.5 billion. In 2016, Day left Geek & Sundry after growing "fatigued in a less creative, more managerial role in the company". Day said "I gave it my heart and my soul. When I realized I had given as much as I could, I needed to move on".
In February 2011, Day announced that she would be starring in a new web miniseries called , based on the Dragon Age video game series developed by BioWare and aired on October 10, 2011. Day plays an elf named Tallis, and returns as the voice and likeness for the character in the Dragon Age II downloadable content Mark of the Assassin.
In April 2012, it was announced that Day would host the 2012 IndieCade Awards Ceremony on October 4, 2012. Also in April of that year, Day appeared on the YouTube show MyMusic as a Norwegian Black Metal singer named Gorgol. She guest starred in the second season of the Jane Espenson scripted web series, Husbands. In October 2012, she guest starred on The Game Station podcast and appeared in an episode of My Drunk Kitchen.
In 2014, Alderac Entertainment Group included a Felicia Day card in the storage case expansion, The Big Geeky Box for their card game Smash Up. In 2015, Plaid Hat Games released a Felicia Day character card for their board game for Tabletop Day 2015. On August 4, 2015, Day guest starred on Episode 9 of the Dear Hank & John podcast. On October 1, 2016, Day provided a guest voice for the Welcome to Night Vale podcast as Zookeeper Joanna Rey.
In April 2017, she began appearing as Kinga Forrester in Mystery Science Theater 3000. In August 2017, Day appeared as a guest in the episode "The Perfect Pear", voicing Pear "Buttercup" Butter, the presumed-deceased mother of one of the show's main characters, Applejack. In the episode, she also performs a romantic ballad, titled "You're In My Head Like a Catchy Song".
From 2018 to 2019, Day appeared in the third season of the SyFy series The Magicians as Poppy Kline. Day organized and hosted a Twitch charity livestream on June 30, 2018, in aid of Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), a Texas nonprofit. The 12-hour livestream raised over $212,000.
In 2022, Day hosted , and spent two months recording with the cast and crew while they were promoting the season around the world. She also interviewed cast members for a panel at New York Comic Con, which was recorded and released as a bonus episode of the podcast in November 2022. In 2024, she hosted the aftershow for the second season of .
In 2023, Day created and starred in the scripted fantasy podcast titled Third Eye produced by Audible. The show was number 3 on the list of top fiction audio shows in October 2023 and won an Earphones Award from AudioFile Magazine.
In 2024, Day was a guest star in the stage production of which combines actual play, improv, and immersive theater at Stage 42 in New York City.
During the inaugural Streamy Awards held in Los Angeles on March 28, 2009, Day received the award for the "Best Female Actor in a Comedy" for her work as protagonist Cyd Sherman in The Guild, and won the same award again in 2010.
She was also recognized for her work on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog in 2009. Day was also nominated for the Best Guest Appearance Award for the 3rd Streamy Awards.
In June 2018, she won a Behind the Voice Actors Award in Best Female Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Guest Role for her role as Pear Butter in the episode "The Perfect Pear".
In 2023, Day was awarded the Inkpot Award during the annual San Diego Comic-Con.
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| Episode: "The Crazy-Girl Episode" | |
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| Episode: "Nexus" | |
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| Episode: "We'll Take Manhattan" | |
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| Episode: "KevJumba Takes the SAT w/ Felicia Day" YouTube Internet series | |||
| Episode: "Episode 27" YouTube Internet series | |||
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| Weekly vlog on Geek & Sundry | |||
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| 2024 | Rhett & Link's Wonderhole | Draven the Technonaut | Voice, episode: "We Opened A 200 Year Old Time Capsule" |
| 2025 | Lost Odyssey: Godfall | Sylph | Presented by Geek & Sundry, Demiplane and Lost Odyssey Events; charity special to support Extra Life. |
| 2010 | Rock of the Dead | Mary Beth | |
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| 2011 | Tallis | ||
| 2012 | Guild Wars 2 | Zojja | |
| 2014 | Herself | ||
| 2015 | Zojja | ||
| 2018 | Monster Prom | Violet | |
| 2020 | The Wizardress | ||
| 2023 | Athena | ||
| 2025 | Date Everything! | Skylar Specs |
| 2020 | The World of Critical Role | Narrator |
| 2024 | Mage | Stage 42 |
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