Molly Caitlyn Quinn is an American actress who has worked in theatre, film, and television. Her roles include Alexis Castle, daughter of the title character on ABC’s Castle, and the voice of Bloom, one of the main characters in the Nickelodeon revival of Winx Club.
Other name: Molly C. Quinn
Years active: 2006–present
Born Age: October 8, 1993, 31 years old and 1 months, Texarkana, Texas, U.S.
Sun Sign: Libra
Hair Color: Red
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5′ 5″ – 1.65 m
Measurements: 33-24-34 in – 84-61-86 cm
Bra size: 32A US – 70A EU
Life and career
Parents: Dianne Quinn, Tom Quinn
She has one older brother
Has three nieces.
Molly Quinn began taking weekly acting lessons from director and producer Martin Beck after performing in a community production of The Nutcracker at age six. In the sixth grade, she auditioned at the Young Actors Studio, and after six months of “intensive [acting] training”, signed with the Osbrink agency and Management 360.
From 2009 to 2016, she starred in the ABC mystery drama series Castle as Alexis Castle, the lead character’s daughter. She also played the character Sally Campbell in one episode.
From 2011 to 2015, Quinn performed the lead role of Bloom in Nickelodeon‘s revival of the animated series Winx Club. At first, Quinn tried a “cartoony” voice for her character. Nickelodeon advised her to use her real voice instead, saying, “No, we want voices of real girls this time around.” Quinn also voiced Bloom in the re-records of the first and second films based on the series.
In March 2014, Quinn appeared as the voice of the sentient computer Fey, in the episode “Numbers” of the podcast series Welcome to Night Vale. In 2021, she starred in the horror movie Agnes.
Molly Quinn Career Highlights
First Film: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
First TV Show: Castle (2009)
Trivia
Dreamworld (2013) is the first episode of Castle (2009) in which she is credited with her middle initial.
As a child, she performed gymnastics.
Shares date of birth with Hungarian model Barbara Palvin.
Although Molly is known for her acting skills, she is a talented singer as well.
How many awards has Molly C. Quinn won? 4 awards.
How many award nominations has Molly C. Quinn received? 9 nominations.
Her acting models include Jodie Foster, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker, and Robert Downey Jr.
Quotes
[on her on- and off-screen relationship with Susan Sullivan, who plays Martha Rodgers]: Susan is such a classy lady. She’s so different from her character. In real life, she’s very intelligent… She’s a free thinker. She has a lot of really good advice and she has a really good head on her shoulders. She’s seen a lot, she’s done a lot, she knows a lot. Her character Martha, to me at least… thinks that she knows everything, but doesn’t really know much. Martha was probably brought up in a ritzy home and was a victim of the ’60s.
My karate skills are very limited. I’m a green belt.
I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.
I get very competitive, mostly in acting though. When I’m going out for a role or something, that’s when I really get very territorial about things.
Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.
One thing about me is that I don’t like being told I can’t do something.
I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.
I loved doing Supergirl, but I would love to do Batgirl. I would absolutely love to do a live-action Batgirl!
I love, love, love fantasy, like ‘Lord of the Rings’ and things like that.
I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.
When you get a role, you completely lose yourself in it. That’s one of the great things about acting – letting yourself go.
If you have the opportunity to watch Nathan Fillion or Jim Carrey do a scene, it’s like getting a Ph.D. in acting.
With voice-over, you have to pretend like you’re three, except you can talk and read.
I love my dad; I’m a daddy’s girl, all the way.
Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.
I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, ‘I am a superhero,’ but the truth is that we’re all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.
I really want to do a dark character. Not really a bad guy, but someone dark and mysterious. Where everyone says, ‘Ooh, it has to be her!’ and at the end you find out it isn’t. Just someone who looks guilty.
Who doesn’t love Veronica Mars?
The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I’d love to work with them sometime, too.
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