Brittany Daniel

Brittany Daniel is an American television and film actress. She is the twin sister of former actress and photographer Cynthia Daniel.

She is best known her role as Jessica Wakefield on the 1990s syndicated teen drama "Sweet Valley High," and for her portrayal of Kelly Pitts on the CW/BET comedy-drama series "The Game."

By age 11, the twins were signed to the Ford Agency and began modeling. They appeared in Seventeen and YM. They also appeared in ads for Doublemint gum as the Doublemint Twins.

Both girls began acting in the 1989 with an appearance in the sitcom "The New Leave It to Beaver." In 1992, when she was 16, Brittany won the role of Mila Rosnovsky on the short-lived syndicated teen drama "Swan's Crossing." She then moved to New York to film the series.

After high school, she landed the role of Jessica Wakefield in the television series "Sweet Valley High" (twin sister, Cynthia portrayed Jessica's twin, Elizabeth). During the run of "Sweet Valley High," the girls made their film debut in the drama "The Basketball Diaries" alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

After "Sweet Valley High" was canceled in 1997, Daniel continued acting in films and television series including a stint on "Dawson's Creek" in 1999 and a role in the TBS television movie "On Hostile Ground" the following year. In 2001, she appeared as David Spade's love interest, Brandy, in "Joe Dirt." In 2002, Daniel played one of the lead characters in the short-lived Fox series "That '80s Show."

In 2002, she played Eric Forman's cousin Penny on "That '70s Show." Daniel also appeared on the show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" as a transsexual named Carmen. In 2004, she teamed up with the Wayans Brothers for their films "White Chicks" and "Little Man." That same year, she appeared in the VH1 television movie "Totally Awesome" before landing a lead role in The CW Television Network's half-hour comedy "The Game," which she starred in until 2011. In February 2010, she was cast in the Brothers Strause thriller "Skyline"; the film was released on November 12, 2010.

In March 2014, Daniel revealed that she had stage IV non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She is currently cancer free.

After going through chemotherapy, she returned to acting as Brandy in "Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser" and as Blair in "Blackish."