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The series premiered to 2.47 million viewers with Benson's performance being praised by critics. Hanna is the "diva" and " It girl" of the group, having taken Alison DiLaurentis' place as the most popular girl at Rosewood High in Alison's absence. In December 2009, Benson was cast as Hanna Marin in the ABC Family mystery-thriller teen drama series Pretty Little Liars, based on the novel series by Sara Shepard. The series only lasted 13 episodes before ABC cancelled the series due to low ratings but has since gained a cult following.īenson at a screening for Spring Breakers in February 2013 The show was based on John Updike's novel, The Witches of Eastwick, and the 1987 film adaption of the same name. In 2009, Benson starred in ABC's short-lived supernatural comedy television series Eastwick. She also played a witch disguised as a cheerleader in a 2008 episode of The CW series Supernatural. Furthermore, she was excited to land a supporting role in Bart Got a Room, which aired mainly on film festivals in 2008 before having a limited release in 2009, because it allowed her to work with William H. She became good friends with her onscreen mother Tatum O'Neal, from whom she learned about acting. The film is based on a true story which took place at McKinney North High School in Texas. In 2008, she appeared in the Lifetime original film Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, where she played head cheerleader Brooke Tippit, a character loosely inspired by Karrissa Theret of the Fab Five. For Bring It On: In It to Win It, she had to attend cheerleading practice, which was "hard for, because afraid of heights." Nonetheless, she was "glad" to do her own stunts, even though she "wasn't expecting it to be so hard." She recalled working on a film set instead of a soap opera set "definitely weird", because she would spend days working on one or two scenes, whereas on the Days of Our Lives set, she filmed two or three episodes a day. So I am definitely thankful I got to be on a soap opera though. But getting off the soap opera helped me a lot too, because I can move on to bigger and better things.
It's definitely given me all my background. I mean I give all my credit to them, because I have learned so much from being on soap operas and working with amazing actors who've been on there for like thirty, forty years. I'm happier that I got off the soap though.
So this big thing just came up, and I ended up getting to do this.
I had just passed up so many opportunities where I could have done a film. I got off it, I mean I had talked with the producers about doing this film, and they weren't going to let me do it. The role required her to both overcome her fear of heights to perform the cheerleading stunts, and to end her contract with Days of our Lives: She starred as Carson in Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007), the fourth installment of the Bring It On franchise. īenson made her big screen debut with a bit part in the 2004 comedy 13 Going on 30. īenson appeared on the daytime soap Days of Our Lives as Abigail Deveraux from 2004 to 2007. When she was eight years old she signed with Ford Models, and appeared in a number of print ads. She began singing in choirs and musicals at a young age, performing a solo at her church at age four. Career Early work īenson began dancing competitively at age three, studying ballet, jazz, tap and hip hop. Benson was born on December 18, 1989, in Anaheim Hills, California, to parents Shannon and Jeff Benson.