Erinn Westbrook

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Erinn Westbrook is an American actress, singer, dancer and model. She’s known for Bree in Glee, Gabby Richards in Awkward, and Magnolia Barnard in Insatiable. From 2021 to 2023, she played Tabitha Tate on Riverdale.

Westbrook was born in New York City and moved to Town and Country, Missouri, when she was six. She is the second of three children; her sister Lauren and brother Brent C. are Harvard graduates like her. She finished at John Burroughs School, where she was the captain of the cheerleading squad, and graduated in 2006. She then attended Harvard University, the tenth family member to graduate from there. She studied English and American Literature, with a focus on Dramatic Arts and Spanish.

While at Harvard, she wrote for the Harvard Crimson and led Students Taking on Poverty. After internships at CNBC, NBC and Oxygen, she started on-air work for MTV, reporting for young audiences and hosting features such as SXSW coverage, mtvU's Movers & Changers, and MTV Spring Break, where she was a main host from 2010 to 2012.

Westbrook also worked as a model with Ford Models in Los Angeles, appearing in ads for Nike, Vineyard Vines, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan. She was named one of Fashion’s Next It Girls by Who, What, Wear in 2013. She has guest-starred on Switched at Birth, Supernatural, Bones, NCIS and Jane the Virgin. She is best known for Bree, the captain of the Cheerios, in the fifth season of Glee. In spring 2014, she joined MTV’s Awkward, staying with the show through its final season in 2016.

In 2014, she traveled to Southeast Asia as a cultural and arts emissary for U.S. embassies in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Westbrook has one child.