Anna Kendrick

About

Anna Kendrick is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in the comedy-musical Pitch Perfect and the fantasy series Twilight.

Acting Career

Kendrick was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk award for featured actress in a musical in 1998 for her role in High Society.^[3] She won a Theater World Award for the role.

Kendrick made her film debut in the 2003 musical comedy Camp.^[1] She played the minor role of a school friend of Bella’s in the first Twilight film (2008), going on to appear in the next three films in the series. In 2010 she was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in Up in the Air (2009).^[2] She gained popularity, especially online, for her staring role in the musical comedy Pitch Perfect (2012). She will appear as Cinderella in the 2014 film adaptation of the Tony Award winning musical Into the Woods.

Online History

Twitter

As of January 2014 Kendrick’s Twitter account^[4] has over 2.05 million followers. Her funny tweets and interactions with fellow celebrities on Twitter are often reported on. On August 9th, 2013, The Huffington Post^[5] published a piece titled “28 Great Tweets From Anna Kendrick In Celebration Of The Actress’ 28th Birthday,” and on January 7th, 2014, Buzzfeed^[6] published a post titled “25 Times Anna Kendrick Was Painfully Accurate” which also compiled her best tweets.

Cups

On April 12, 2013, the AnnaKendrickVEVO YouTube channel^[11] uploaded a music video for Kendrick’s single version of “Cups,” a song she sang in the movie Pitch Perfect. As of January 2014 the video has over 105.7 million views.

The music video sparked a trend of creating tutorials for the cup tapping aspect of the song, with popular YouTubers like Grace Helbig (right) and Glozell (left) making tutorials as well.^[12]

Multiple covers of “Cups” have gone viral including a tap dancer version (top left), an Irish language version (top right), an a capella version (bottom left) and kids version (bottom right)

Super Bowl Comercial

On January 28th, 2014, Newcastle beer uploaded a commercial featuring Kendrick to their YouTube channel.^[7] The commercial features her jokingly explain that she had been hired by the beer company to do a Super Bowl ad, but they ran out of money. Many sites such as Buzzfeed^[8], Variety^[9], and Adweek^[10] reported on the ad. As of January 31st the video has over 2.5 million views.