Meet Brianne Howey, Ginny & Georgia star: from flight attendant ambitions to improv, landing roles in 90210, Revenge, Criminal Minds and the Netflix comedy series, and stunning fans as a fashionista
The California native, who was raised by a single mum, is married to lawyer Matt Ziering and welcomed a daughter in 2023, which made her resonate more with her role in Ginny & Georgia
“Prior to having a child, of course, I thought many of the Georgia-isms were absolutely insane and unhinged and over the top, and why is she taking up so much space?” she told People in a recent interview. “Now that I have a child, I am so obsessed with her that I understand why Georgia is so obsessed with Ginny, and my heart only got bigger and I just have even more respect for all the mums out there.” Howey welcomed her daughter with her husband Matt Ziering in 2023.
Here’s everything you need to know about Brianne Howey.
She’s from California
In spite of her very convincing southern accent on Ginny & Georgia, Howey was actually born and raised in La Cañada Flintridge, California, by a single mother.
The 36-year-old’s childhood helped shape her role in the Netflix show. In an interview with Byrdie in 2021, Howey said, “There’s a lot of my mum in Georgia. I grew up with a super young single mum. She had me at 21, so we had a similar relationship. She wasn’t stealing money from my school or anything like that [laughs]. But Georgia is a survivalist. And that’s something I relate to and something my mum related to. It’s not something I see on paper a ton, especially for such a young woman who already has kids and lived such a life at 30.”
Her acting career
Growing up, Howey had wanted to become a flight attendant, but things changed when she joined her high school’s improv team and fell in love with acting. “I did it after school, and it started consuming all of my time,” Howey said in an interview with ClicheMag in 2015. “In college, I started looking at it in a different lens.”