I first saw Brea Grant on Friday Night Lights, playing the nerdy-and-punk-ish love interest for Landry Clarke for a few episodes. She has an amazing enthusiasm and energy that comes through the screen. It’s no wonder that she was chosen to play the new Heroes villian, Daphne.

Now, if she does a reasonably decent job on the show, which seems likely in my mind, she’s on the cusp of becoming moderately famous. Not paparazzi-follows-her-every-move famous, but still, pretty famous. Heroes was the number 1 show in demo for Mondays, after all. So, the question is will she stay on Twitter or blog quite as often once she becomes more famous?

Update: sigh, poor writing when writing quickly. My point is that folks like Brea Grant are growing up in an age when everyone has a Facebook page, uses things like Twitter or Pownce or whatever, and are generally very visibly connected to a lot of people. We all have a public face now that we present. I was using Brea Grant as an example, in large part because I was surprised at how accessible she is to fans. Thinking about it for a sec, I realized that she has an advantage in that she’s not ultra famous yet. It’s going to be interesting to see the current generation of young stars get famous, especially the ones that aren’t child stars first.