Introduction
Whitney Avalon is an American actress, writer, producer, singer, and rapper best known for creating the Princess Rap Battle series and other musical comedy on YouTube, where her channel has over 600 million views.
Variety listed her in their 2015 Comedy Impact Report, stating her work has "amassed over half a billion views" worldwide in a year. She was also named one of Cosmopolitan's "Internet's Most Fascinating" people in 2015.
Princess Rap Battles
The Princess Rap Battles series was created by Whitney Avalon and features fictional female characters facing off against each other in the form of a rap battle. Whitney Avalon appears in every episode as a major rap opponent.
She posted the first Princess Rap Battle "Snow White vs. Elsa" in September 2014. Since then, she has posted more rap battles on the channel, including "Galadriel vs. Leia", "Mrs. Claus vs. Mary Poppins", and "Cinderella vs. Belle" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, who is a fan of the series. Subsequent episodes include "Maleficent vs. Daenerys" starring Yvonne Strahovski, "Katniss vs. Hermione" starring Molly Quinn, "Freya vs. Ravenna" and "Rapunzel & Flynn vs. Anna & Kristoff". Avalon then posted two Wonderland vs. Oz themed battles: "Dorothy vs. Alice" starring Emily Kinney, Ryan McCartan, Jason Rogel, and Joey Richter followed by "The Queen of Hearts vs. The Wicked Witch of the West" with Alyssa Preston, Ben Giroux and (like all the battles) Avalon herself. The most recent episode of the series featured Harley Quinn, Black Canary, and Huntress teaming up.
| No. | Rap Battle | Release date | Views (in millions) |
Special guest stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snow White vs. Elsa | September 17, 2014 | 226.31 | Katja Glieson |
| 2 | Galadriel vs. Leia | November 25, 2014 | 31 | Sara Erikson |
| 3 | Mrs. Claus vs. Mary Poppins | December 22, 2014 | 37.46 | Alyssa Preston and Jim O'Heir |
| 4 | Cinderella vs. Belle | March 11, 2015 | 100.78 | Sarah Michelle Gellar |
| 5 | Maleficent vs. Daenerys | June 24, 2015 | 41.8 | Yvonne Strahovski |
| 6 | Katniss vs. Hermione | November 18, 2015 | 44.96 | Molly C. Quinn |
| 7 | Ravenna vs. Freya | April 6, 2016 | 37.5 | Laura Marano and Derek Theler |
| 8 | Rapunzel vs. Anna | November 29, 2016 | 30.4 | Eliza Dushku, Tom Lenk, James Maslow and Jim O'Heir |
| 9 | Dorothy vs. Alice | November 9, 2018 | 12.61 | Emily Kinney, Ryan McCartan, Jason Rogel, and Joey Richter |
| 10 | The Queen of Hearts vs. The Wicked Witch of the West | November 23, 2019 | 2.69 | Alyssa Preston and Ben Giroux |
| 11 | Harley Quinn & Birds of Prey | February 15, 2020 | 2.31 | Mary Kate Wiles and SWOOP |
Appearance in other media
Avalon graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University in 2003 with a BA in Theater Arts. She is a working actress in television, theater, and commercials. In 2013, she played the mom in the controversial Cheerios commercial "Just Checking," featuring an interracial family. She has appeared in television series such as Speechless, Outlaw, The Big Bang Theory, Days of Our Lives, Monday Mornings, Girl Meets World, Love That Girl!, and Jane the Virgin. She played Mary Shelley in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party and was a series regular in Hyperlinked, a YouTube Premium series distributed by Disney.