Ambria Miscia

As an only child during her youth, Ambria Miscia developed an extremely imaginative mind, and thus she was deemed often as being in constant 'fantasyland.' Raised outside of Boston, Massachusetts, Ambria spent her time playing violin, taking dance classes, writing poems and novels, telling stories and acting them out with friends. She dreamed of moving to New York City after graduation to pursue a career in acting. Although raised in a rural area, Ambria ventured to a high school in the next town over that was more a City than the small town she lived in. Little did she know that learning Spanish from her friends in the mostly-Latino school would prove to be a significant factor of opportunity in her life. Working part time at an engineering firm, another opportunity came her way. Despite her goal to move to New York City, the engineering firm offered her a position on a team undertaking a huge project in Puerto Rico--and they needed someone Spanish-speaking. The opportunity was too great to refuse. For the next three years, Ambria worked her way from a 17-year-old kid to a 20-year-old woman. Working constant 12-hour days on the island, her Spanish quickly became fluent. As soon as the Puerto Rican project was finished, Ambria relocated to New York City. Arriving in New York City at 20-years-old, for nearly a year, Ambria bounced around from apartment-to-apartment, living out of a suitcase, before finally making a home out of a tiny, closet-sized apartment in West Harlem. After a year and a half studying at Fashion Institute of Technology, she dropped out. She enrolled in acting classes in the West Village, began waiting tables and endured her initial plunge into the world of starving artists. She quickly won roles in independent films such as Basketball and Las Usadas (which she wrote). She also acted in a few modern off-off-off Broadway plays at NYU and other various theatres in the village, such as Crittendon, and Perversions of the Truth. It was her time with Stephen Kennedy Murphy, however, theatrical director of the Yale Alumni Studio at the Provincetown Playhouse, which changed the way Ambria felt about acting. After a brief audition, she was invited to study under the distinguished director with a small master class. She studied Meisner intensely and fell in love with the art of acting organically. Ambria studied intensely for the next year and took every acting job she could obtain. She concentrated on building her resume and even directed several small projects to fill up a demo reel. She moved herself to Los Angeles in 2006, embarking on her professional film career. She currently lives in Studio City.