ABC.com has named the Top 11 Breakout Stars of 2011 and Emily has made the list! She is featured along with Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Melissa McCarthy and others.

7.Emily VanCamp

“Revenge” might be a dish best served cold, but the star of this ABC drama is on this year’s hot list. Emily VanCamp plays Emily Thorne, a vengeful vigilante out to seek retribution on the people who caused the destruction of her family and the death of her father. VanCamp, 25, previously starred on “Brothers and Sisters” and “Everwood.”

“She popped up in this incredible show ‘Revenge,’ and it’s been really a breakout hit of the year,” said Garcia.

TV Line interviewed Emily and she talks about the fall finale episode that aired last night.

Revenge, as fans of ABC’s frothy new drama can attest, is a sweet indulgence, and a heaping new bit will be served this Wednesday at 10/9c in the fall finale. Will the fake “Amanda” get under Emily’s skin by wooing Jack? Have we not come close to seeing Tyler at his worst? Shouldn’t Daniel be popping the question soon? And who was that dead on the beach in the pilot?

Series lead Emily VanCamp visited TVLine’s Times Square office to field those burning questions and others — including which Everwood resident she’d like to see visit the Hamptons.

TVLINE | Prior to Revenge, you were a member of two memorable TV ensembles, on Brothers & Sisters and Everwood. Did you feel anxiety as the “axis” around which a new show revolves?
Oh, absolutely. I tried to mask it as much as possible, because you want to be there for the rest of the cast and show confidence. [Laughs] It was definitely intimidating, but at a certain point you just have to let it all go, do the best job that you can and hopefully people will watch — and they did. And for that, I’m so grateful every day. I’ve had a lot of “pinch me” moments.

TVLINE | The audience did show up — do you think that’s because we were longing for a frothy sudser in the tradition of Dynasty?
I think so, yeah. People are craving that kind of show right now, and ABC put their faith in [Revenge creator] Mike Kelley, who is absolutely brilliant and has such a great plan for this show. It was a risk for ABC, I think. A lot of people are betting on remakes and reboots… no one really thought much about our show, so it was a pleasant surprise that people tuned in.
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Stephanie Goldberg from CNN.com did this great article on Emily’s series Revenge. Emily is interviewed as part of the article.

Most of us haven’t partied with the bunnies at “The Playboy Club,” or fought crime like “Charlie’s Angels.” And with the NBC and ABC programs canceled after just a few episodes, we’ll never have the chance.

But in the time it took for one alphabet network drama to get the axe, another garnered 8 million viewers and a full season pickup.

After all, “Revenge” is a language we all understand.

The modern day “Count of Monte Cristo” reels audiences in with characters viewers seem to love — and love to hate. Not to mention plot twists to die for. Still, the primetime soap doesn’t venture into campy territory. Not even while playing with traded identities and crimes of passion.

The concept is simple: Amanda Clarke, disguised as Emily Thorne, returns to the Hamptons to take revenge on the people who destroyed her family when she was a little girl.

And “Revenge” couldn’t have come at a better time as far as its network is concerned.

With “Desperate Housewives’” eighth and final season underway, ABC was fortunate to find a new female-driven drama that so far appears to resonate with viewers. “Revenge” even has its own insightful narrator. (Thank you, Mary Alice Young. You can go now.)

“For the truly wronged, real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places: Absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication,” narrator and protagonist Emily Thorne, played by former “Brothers and Sisters’” cast member Emily VanCamp, coos at the beginning of the pilot. Before even making the acquaintance of her victims, she’s got the audience on her side.

That’s not to say everyone is a fan of her narration.

With “Desperate Housewives” and “Grey’s Anatomy” in mind, one HitFix reviewer wrote, “ABC has an in-house style that says that having your female lead narrate nothingness at the start of every episode is a worthy strategy.”

But whether you’re a fan of Thorne’s philosophical musings or not, the numbers don’t lie. About 7.3 million viewers tuned in to “Revenge” on Thanksgiving Eve — better known as the biggest bar night of the year.

Now nine episodes in, the series began in a predictable fashion — with Emily targeting and conquering one victim every week. Each episode even ended with Emily marking a red X over the victim of the hour in a posed photograph of the Hamptons royalty.

“Revenge” has since taken a more complex turn, with the introduction of new characters, telling flashbacks and plans gone awry — a change welcomed by some critics.

“The show has wisely realized that it needs to mix it up when it comes to ‘revenging,’ and it’s also fruitful to have plans backfire and have unexpected complications emerge,” AOL TV critic Maureen Ryan wrote in her column, “Stay Tuned.”

One complication being antagonist Victoria Grayson, played brilliantly by Madeleine Stowe.

Let’s just say Emily isn’t the only character seeking revenge.

The perfect present day villain, Victoria is out to get her son’s new love interest, her daughter’s inept boy toy, her unfaithful husband and the frenemy who led him astray.

“I can believe that this person would be doing these things,” Stowe told the Sioux City Journal. “It’s easy for me to slide into her.”

As if Stowe and VanCamp weren’t enough of a sell, the show’s portrayal of the Hamptons royalty might be.

“We are dealing at a particular time right now in American history where I think the average American is going to want to see the takedown of the rich,” Stowe said.

Nothing like a show about rich people who hate their lives to keep one entertained during a recession.

People spoke with Emily about Revenge’s storylines and of course that awesome love triangle with Daniel & Jack!

Emily VanCamp has found herself in the middle of a “twisted” love triangle – on TV, that is.

VanCamp’s character on ABC’s Revenge, vengeful vigilante Emily Thorne, may be seeking justice for her late father, but she’s also struggling to choose between Jack (Nick Wechsler), her working-class childhood friend, and Daniel (Joshua Bowman), the privileged son of her nemesis.

“Obviously there is a deep love and connection with Jack that is certainly not part of the plan,” VanCamp, 25, tells E! Online of the love triangle. “I think she’s really trying to keep him at an arm’s length, and he obviously makes her feel something, but I think if she really lets that go to far it could really disrupt her plan [with Daniel]. … it’s really kind of messy.”

She additionally teases: “Episode five is actually even more shocking in that respect with the relationship with Daniel.”

No word on if the new developments have anything to do with Daniel’s visiting college friend, Tyler, a bad seed played by Ashton Holmes. Fans can expect to see Tyler and Emily clash in upcoming episodes, according to VanCamp.

“He’s sort of like the Talented Mr. Ripley character, and Emily doesn’t even really know quite what he’s up to ? but she knows something is up,” VanCamp says. “There is something really kind of twisted and scary about this character.”

Things on Revenge just keep getting messier!

The Vancouver Sun posted this great article about Emily and her new role as Emily Thorne!

Every so often, and almost always by accident, a role intersects with the zeitgeist at exactly the right moment.

Call it alchemy, call it strange coincidence, call it what you will, but when Port Perry, Ont. actress Emily VanCamp landed the role of Emily Thorne, an upwardly mobile, hard-luck young woman bent on revenge in an updated retelling of the Alexandre Dumas classic, The Count of Monte Cristo, she had no idea that the series — and her character — would take on a life of its own.

The new TV series, Revenge, shares The Count of Monte Cristo’s themes of wrongful accusation, justice delayed, and revenge for a stolen childhood and innocence lost. It’s a story where a hardscrabble, blue-collar work confronts corruption and affluence, where the rich behave badly — and get their comeuppance, in ways both lawful and beyond the law.

Revenge has tapped into the audience’s disaffection with affluence and power at a time when public protest against the financial centres of power is growing. Six weeks into the fall season, Revenge has surpassed expectations, and is now among the fall’s most-watched new network dramas. Revenge has defied early doubters by edging time-period competitor CSI among younger viewers in the U.S., and is now seen by an average 11 million viewers on ABC in the U.S., a number that, remarkably, puts Revenge on an even footing with The X Factor. (Revenge airs on Rogers-owned Citytv in Canada.)

As with Edmond Dantes, the hero of Dumas’ timeless classic, Thorne is consumed by the need for revenge, and blind to its moral consequences.

The story is about a young woman who, when she was just nine years old, saw her father framed by affluent neighbours, whom he trusted, for a crime he didn’t commit. He died in prison; his daughter grew up in foster care, alone and resentful, consumed by guilt and driven by a need for eventual revenge. The series opens 17 years later, with the troubled teen now a young woman, socially adept, upwardly mobile — and utterly focused on the task at hand. She rents a beach house in the Hamptons, next door to Victoria Grayson, the wealthy matriarch and socialite she blames for her father’s death, and she puts her plan in motion. Victoria Grayson is played in the series by Madeleine Stowe; her tycoon husband, Conrad Grayson, is played by veteran Toronto stage and screen actor, Henry Czerny.

For VanCamp, who’s used to playing demure heroines in family dramas like Brothers & Sisters, Everwood, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Beyond the Blackboard, Revenge posed a unique challenge: Play the friendly, sophisticated “girl next door” whose charm and outward appearance of generosity mask a cold heart and a scheming, calculating mind.

“Focused,” VanCamp said, summing her character up in a single word.

Emily Thorne has educated herself in the discipline of revenge. She has learned how to subsume herself in other personalities, and has learned how to move, chameleon-like, through different social settings, without drawing attention to herself.

VanCamp has come to terms with her character’s moral choices, though they are not necessarily the choices she would make herself. She’s quick to defend her character’s emotional compass, though. Emily Thorne is no sociopath, VanCamp insists, despite the way her calculated actions trigger murder and mayhem.

“What happened to her was so traumatic — having this happy childhood and then being torn away from her father, growing up in the foster-care system with this really rough teenage-hood — that I think who she is now is completely understandable,” VanCamp said. “Beyond her father, she didn’t really have anybody who truly cared about her, who loved her. She had that, and it was all taken away.”
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Without giving away any major plot details, the creator of Revenge told EW what the future holds for the first season (and beyond if we’re lucky enough to get it) of the show.

The new fall TV season has officially begun, and one of the breakout shows (and one of the favorites around the EW offices) is ABC’s new nighttime soap Revenge. Starring Brothers & Sisters‘ Emily VanCamp as the vengeful Emily Thorne, who seeks retribution for her framed father, Revenge premiered on Wednesday to a surprisingly healthy 10.1 million viewers. So how will this soap play out? “I will tell you will have all of the answers to all of the questions that the pilot poses by the 13th episode,” says creator/executive producer Mike Kelley (Swingtown). “Then we will have an whole new installment of revenge that has to do with the trial of the murderer [of Daniel Grayson] that will take us through the back-half of the first season.”

The biggest question is what would season 2 entail? Another revenge saga? Basically, yes, according to Kelley, who cites Dexter as somewhat of a storytelling model. “In our show, there’s a whole conspiracy and seasons worth of people that will reap what they’ve sewn,” says the producer. “Revenge is a universal concept and it’s gonna permeate the show on every level. I plan to do installments of revenge. So I’ll set two installments a season which will be self-contained. They’ll focus on a group of people that need to come down and we’ll introduce new people. We’ll also give other characters on the show a reason to want their own revenge.”
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So what do you think Emily fans? Will you keep watching it if the cast changes every season? The article alludes to that possibility but nothing is set in stone and we still have the first season to get through.

I have kind of secret love for zombies. I’m a big zombie buff.

Emily VanCamp takes a road over to the dark side on Wednesday night on ABC’s newest drama, “Revenge.”

In the brand new series, the former “Brothers & Sisters” actress takes on the starring role of Emily Thorne, a young woman who heads back to her childhood home in the Hamptons, with a new name and bent on taking “Revenge” against those who took her father away from her as a child, by framing him for a crime he didn’t commit.

ABC’s been doing plenty to promote the show, including erecting a host of billboards and outfitting buses in major markets with the actress’ image, something VanCamp knew about, but still caught her by surprise the first time she saw it, as she told AccessHollywood.com.

Access Hollywood: Do you remember your reaction the first time you saw one of the billboards?
Emily VanCamp: I was driving on the 101 to work and it was some ridiculously early hour, and there it was… I had no concept of what that would feel like and there it was, on my way to work… My mom was the first person I called after I scared my boyfriend s***less because he thought I was getting into an accident.

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A fantastic new interview with Emily was just posted at Zap2it. It’s pretty long but there’s all sort of fun little tidbits of information about the show, her role as Emily Thorne, and where she thinks Amy Abbott is now.

I can’t tell you how much fun I’m having! Every day is exciting. I love this character. I felt like, if I’m reading these scripts and I’m rooting for her, then hopefully our audience will too.

ABC hasn’t exactly gone for a subtle publicity push when it comes to its new Wednesday night thriller, “Revenge.” There are advertisements on every bus stop and billboard in Los Angeles. They even sent us an iPad with the pilot episode screener loaded up — and a top secret message from the lead character. Yes, much like the Hamptons residents that populate the series, the marketing team behind “Revenge” has little regard for the economic crisis. (And we love it.)

We’ll let you in on a little secret, though. They didn’t really have to do any of that. At least, not to snag our attention. (We would’ve watched the show even without the Godiva truffles that came with the iPad, though they were a nice touch, ABC.)

The real draw for “Revenge” is its lead actress, Emily VanCamp.

The show is only the latest in a series of smart career moves by VanCamp. The audience that was introduced to her as the strong, but flawed Amy Abbott on The WB’s gone-too-soon family drama “Everwood” remains loyal. Her exit from “Brothers and Sisters” came before the show unraveled in its final season. Her film choices have been well-received, if under-the-radar, and her TV movie “Beyond the Blackboard” generated an impressive amount of buzz this year.

So yes, we tuned in for VanCamp, half-expecting to see her in another comforting and relatable role. What we got instead was a young woman on a ruthless vengeance mission, perfectly at home as she dances the line between bad and very, very bad.

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