Elizabeth Egan "Liz" Gillies (born July 26, 1993) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is best known for her part in Broadway's (ended) 13 as Lucy, of which her Victorious co-star, Ariana Grande, was also a part. She currently stars as Jade West on Victorious and voices Daphne on Nickelodeon's Winx Club. During her middle school years, Elizabeth Gillies attended Haworth Public School in her hometown of Haworth, New Jersey. Gillies then attended Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest (otherwise known as NVD) in Demarest, New Jersey before debut. 1995–2006

Gillies started to appear in commercials with cell phones, and made one appearance on 1990s Nickelodeon show 6 to 8 Frozen Zone as Melissa. 2007–2008

Gillies got roles in The Black Donnellys and Locker 514 which jump-started her career. She was cast in Harold as a supporting character. In summer 2008, she was cast as Lucy in a Goodspeed production of Jason Robert Brown's new musical about growing up, 13. Later that year, 13 moved to Broadway, which made it the first Broadway production to have an all teen cast. She received the two big numbers "Opportunity" and "It Can't Be True" along with smaller parts in other songs, such as the title song, "Hey Kendra" and "Getting Ready". 13 was a huge success until its closing in January. She starred in The Clique as Shelby Wexler. 2009–present

On January 4, 2009 13 closed. Elizabeth currently stars in Victorious in which she plays Jadelyn "Jade" West, a main character as well as the antagonist to Victoria Justice's character. She plays the role of Beck Oliver's (Avan Jogia) girlfriend. Jade is very possessive of Beck. She is normally rude and uncaring to many of the high school students. In the Victorious TV movie "Victorious: Freak the Freak Out" she and co-star Ariana Grande sang a duet with a song called "Give It Up". Their duet was set to release on iTunes in early December, but never did. However "Give It Up" will be on the Victorious soundtrack.

She has also made an appearance at the Scream Awards on Spike TV in 2010.

Gillies has a YouTube account called LizGilliesOfficial, where she uploads covers of popular songs including: "Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones and "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon. Gillies is a Mezzo-Soprano.