Crystal Reed

Biography of Crystal Reed

Crystal Marie Reed was born on February 6, 1985 in Detroit, Michigan. She is an American actress.

Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Roseville, Michigan, Reed began her acting career at a young age. Already in junior high she acted in various theater productions at her school.

She was seen in the plays Anatevka and Annie, among others, and was a member of the Macomb Junior Play Association at the time. Although she doesn't remember exactly how she got into acting, she says she always loved theater and thought she could enjoy acting on stage. So she continued her career in high school, where she was also part of her school's dance team and acted in various plays, including Grease.

Immediately after leaving high school, Crystal Reed went to Wayne State University, where she was accepted into a BFA program and received special support. Often unable to cope with the methods she was taught at university, she decided to drop out and moved to Chicago. While she was quite close to her family in the big city in the state of Illinois and also had the time to think about where her future career path would lead, she began taking acting classes in the city of almost 3 million people.

She was also used as a model and acted as an actress in smaller productions. After initially being a bit awed by a trip to the West Coast, she soon decided to go to Los Angeles after all. In doing so, she came to the west coast around the middle of 2009, from where she quickly made a breakthrough that seemed “surreal” to her personally.

Although she made her first appearance in front of a camera while she was in Chicago promoting Pure Romance, a registered trademark for sex toys/sex toy parties, she made her first appearance shortly after her time in Chicago Job in Los Angeles. Here she was booked for a commercial by the cosmetics company Maybelline.

Finally, Reed made her first set on MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger, where she guest-starred in one episode. This episode was filmed on November 9, 2009, exactly one year to the day before the premiere of the film Skyline, with which Reed celebrated her actual international breakthrough.

While she was already involved with the television series Teen Wolf, shortly thereafter she was brought into the official cast of the series published from 2011, Crystal Reed also auditioned for a role in the film Skyline, which was initially was classified as a small independent film. After working on the Teen Wolf pilot and not knowing how long it would take to produce the pilot, there was initially some uncertainty as to whether Reed, who did well in the original casting, would still be able to work in the film.

Shortly after the Teen Wolf pilot wrapped in the already Atlanta suburbs, Reed returned to California and immediately began filming Skyline, eventually starring in the supporting role of Denise. Other appearances in 2010 included one episode each of CSI: Vegas, Rizzoli & Isles and CSI: NY. She also had a small role in the film Crazy, Stupid, Love., which was released in summer 2011, where she starred alongside Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling.

Beginning in 2011, she played the female lead in the MTV series Teen Wolf. Before the start of the second part of the third season, Reed wanted to leave the series because at 29 she felt too old to continue portraying a 17-year-old and because she wanted to gain other new experiences. She eventually left the show at the end of Season 3 in March 2014.

In the meantime she was together with her fellow actor Daniel Sharman until June 2013. Reed was in a relationship with presenter Darren McMullen from 2013 to 2019.