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VIDEO: Janel Parrish Floors the Judges with Gorgeous Freestyle on DWTS

By: Nov. 25, 2014
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After ten weeks of competitive dancing spanning a variety of styles from the Cha Cha to the Quickstep to the Viennese Waltz and more, Alfonso Ribeiro & Witney Carson, Bethany Mota & Derek Hough, Janel Parrish & Valentin Chmerkovskiy and Sadie Robertson & Mark Ballas remain in the competition, but only one couple will be crowned "Dancing with The Stars" Season 19 champion.

The four remaining couples competed in two exciting rounds of dance. In the first round, each couple took on the "Judges Pick" and performed a dance they previously performed this season that the judges had selected. In the second round, the couples took on the biggest competitive dance of the season, a Freestyle routine featuring special effects, additional dancers and unexpected surprises. At the end of night, one couple was eliminated based on the previous weeks' viewer votes combined with the judges' scores from the previous Monday night.

In the Judges Pick round, Broadway vet Janel Parrish and her partner Val Chmerkovskiy performed a Samba, one of their lowest scoring dances of the season. Despite being injured during today's rehearsal, Parrish and partner Val earned a score of 37 out of 40 this time around.

In the Freestyle round, Janel danced a stunning contemporary dance with her professional partner Val Chmerkovskiy which earned the couple a perfect score.

Check out both performances below!

About Janel Parrish:

At the age of 6 Janel entered and won a statewide singing CONTEST and soon followed that with being cast in the National Touring Company and Broadway Company of Les Miserables as Little Cosette. It wasn't long before Janel's Broadway experience and recognition led to acting auditions in Hollywood. While studying acting, Janel continued to train vocally, eventually adding piano to her repertoire. She also began writing her own music, which led to becoming the lead singer in a 3 girl pop group called "Impulse" as well as a recording deal with Geffen Records.

In 2012, Parrish returned to her theater roots in Over the Moon Productions' intimate presentation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening as Anna. In 2014, she hit the stage in For the Record: Baz Luhrmann as well as For the Record: Tarantino.

Currently, Janel can be seen as "Mona" in the top-rated ABC Family TV series, Pretty Little Liars. For her role she won the "Choice TV Villain" award at the 2012 and 2013TEEN CHOICE AWARDS as well as a TV Guide Award nomination. Her love of musical theater also remains.

Other television credits includeDrop Dead Diva, Hawaii Five-O, Heroes, Gepetto, Baywatch, The O'Keefe's, The Bernie Mac Show, Zoey 101, True Jackson, VP, and The O.C. She has also graced the big screen starring in feature films such as Bratz: The Movie, One Kine Day and Knots







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