Felicia Day

Day was doing what most young actors do, small guest parts, before she built herself a job. She turns up as Vi in the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Eloise Hutchinson in Warm Springs (2005), briefly on Windfall and Emeril. None of it was adding up to a career.

So she wrote one. The Guild (2007 to 2013) was a self-produced web series about the members of an online gaming guild, loosely drawn from her own life as a player, and she created it, wrote it and starred in it as Codex. It arrived when internet-native scripted comedy was barely a category and helped make it one. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008) put her in front of a far larger audience as Penny, and Dragon Age: Redemption (2011) was another thing she wrote for herself.

Then came the company. She co-founded Geek & Sundry, the online media outfit that hosted Critical Role between 2015 and 2019, and she appears in that show herself as Lyra. Somewhere in there she became a person genre television simply cast: Charlie Bradbury on Supernatural, Holly Marten on Eureka, Kinga Forrester in both revivals of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and voice roles from Marvel's Spider-Man to Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake.

She writes prose too. The Guild comic and the memoir You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) are both listed on this page, and the memoir is the most candid thing she has made.