Ellary Porterfield is an actress from Bend, Oregon

Bend, Oregon

Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, and the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, and, despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low population...

 most notable for her role as Terry "Tuff" Ryan

Terry Ryan (writer)

Terry "Tuff" Ryan was an American writer, originally from Defiance, Ohio, who had resided in San Francisco for most of her adult life...

 in the 2005 film

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio is a 2005 film written and directed by Jane Anderson, based on the book by Terry "Tuff" Ryan. The DVD was released on March 14, 2006.-Plot:...

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Background

Ellary Porterfield was born in Bend, Oregon on June 5, 1989 to Walt and Traci Porterfield. Porterfield was discovered at a talent competition in 2001 where she was doing an impression of her seventh grade teacher.

Porterfield is a vegetarian.

She is enrolled at Duke University

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...

 and though she has not graduated, she was named 23rd in "The 40 Hottest Alumni of Schools in the NCAA Tournament" list in 2010.

Career

Porterfield has participated in three television pilot

Television pilot

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s for both NBC

NBC

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 and CBS

CBS

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. Her most notable role was in the 2005 film The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio is a 2005 film written and directed by Jane Anderson, based on the book by Terry "Tuff" Ryan. The DVD was released on March 14, 2006.-Plot:...

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She also starred in the CW

The CW Television Network

The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...

 teenage drama Hidden Palms as Liza Witter.

Porterfield then took on a role in the 2008-released film Sugar

Sugar (2008 film)

Sugar is a 2008 sports drama film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It follows the story of Miguel Santos, a. k. a. Sugar , a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, struggling to make it to the big leagues and pull himself and his family out of poverty...

, playing Anne Higgins, the Christian daughter in an Iowan family who is attracted to a minor-league baseball player from the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

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External links

• Sugar at the Internet Movie Database
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