About Erin

This is the official Erin Sanders website.  Enjoy!!!

     Many of you may know Erin for her role as Quinn, the “cool science geek” in the Emmy-nominated Nickelodeon show “Zoey 101.”  Erin won a 2008 Young Artist Award and was nominated for a 2005 Women's Image Network (WIN) Award for her role as Quinn.  Erin, along with her fellow cast members, won the 2006 and 2007 Young Artist Awards for Best Ensemble Performance in a TV Show. 

     What you may not know is that Erin was discovered by an agent while selling Girl Scout cookies!  “I had just turned 9,” she shares, “when, accompanied by my mom, I knocked on this guy’s door.  After I rattled off all the names and descriptions of the cookies by heart, he said that he was impressed with the way I spoke, and that his friend ran an agency.  He gave my mom his card, and the rest is history.” 
    
     Erin’s most recent role was that of Eden in the popular CBS daytime soap, “The Young and the Restless.”  She has also appeared in a number of commercials, and in several other TV shows, such as "8 Simple Rules," "Judging Amy,” “Carnivale,” “American Dreams,” and “Strong Medicine.”   In addition to winning the Young Artist Award for her role as Quinn, she was also nominated for two other Young Artist Awards, one for her recurring role in “Carnivale,” and one for her starring role in the short film, “Never, Never,” shown at the Sundance Film Festival.

     "On ‘Carnivale,’ I was playing the younger version of Amy Madigan, which meant I had to look like her.  So, I had to have blue eyes, red hair, and freckles.  I wore blue contacts, and the hair stylist put stuff in my hair to make it red.  The make-up artist painted freckles all over my face and arms.  It tickled!  I also had to have a Russian accent, and actually speak Russian, neither of which I do.  So, they had a dialect coach come to the set and tutor me in Russian!  But, don't ask me to tell you what I had to say; I don't remember!” 

     Erin has worked on set with a number of well known actors, such as Catherine Zeta-Jones ("She seems really nice.  I found out that she speaks 3 different languages: English, French, and a little Welsh.  I thought that was very cool."), James Garner ("He taught me how to play poker!"), David Spade ("He always called me 'Tiny.'  I don't think he even knows my real name!!!"), Joe Pesci (“He was showing us the best ways to shoot paper-clips using a rubber-band!”), Clancy Brown (“We kept cracking up every time I had to hit him with the rubber rock!”), Tyne Daly (“In our scene together, we passed each other on the stairs.  Afterwards, she said, ‘It was a pleasure sharing a staircase with you!’”), and Amy Brenneman (“She was pounding the celery with a meat tenderizer between takes.  It was sooo funny!!!”).

     In addition to acting, Erin continues to be involved in Girl Scouts, and has been a top cookie seller where, for over 10 years, she has sold up to 1900 boxes of cookies per year to customers in the Greater Los Angeles area. 

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