Brittany Daniel

When "Sweet Valley High" ended production, sister Cynthia gave up acting for photography, and Daniel began to work on her own. She returned to series television with a recurring role as Eve on "Dawson's Creek" in 1999. As the mysterious new stripper/high school student intent on deflowering the all-too-serious Dawson, Daniel's Eve was a provocative, welcome addition to the cast, but audiences were only treated to her unexplainable antics for four episodes before her character revealed her secret and skipped town. A role in the direct-to-video thriller "Sonic Blast" (2000) kept her busy, while a supporting turn in that year's New Orleans on Mardi Gras-set disaster flick "On Hostile Ground" (TBS) brought her back into the public eye. In 2001, Daniel returned to the big screen, playing the dream girl of "Joe Dirt," David Spade's clueless loser on a journey to find his long lost family. Here she displayed the natural down-to-earth charm she played against on both "Sweet Valley High" and "Dawson's Creek," gently spurning Dirt's unwanted advances while sparing his feelings. Displaying a talent for comedy, and believable in action-packed thrillers, Daniel was a versatile performer who found a steady stream of work in projects as diverse as the short-lived "That 80s Show" (Fox, 2002) and the drama "11 Gramercy Park" to films like "Club Dread" (2004), and the Wayans brothers' "White Chicks" (2004) in a scene-stealing turn as one of the bitchy Vandergeld sisters, arch rivals to the blonde, white heiresses the Wayans are pretending to be.