AnnMarie Giaquinto

AnnMarie was born and raised in Connecticut, where her dream of becoming an actress and performing at the historic Shubert Theater in New Haven first began. She enjoyed doing plays and was voted "Most Dramatic" by her classmates in her senior year of high school. AnnMarie now resides in Los Angeles, and has lived in numerous cities throughout the U.S. before relocating from Texas. While in Texas she flourished as an actress and began landing many roles, as well as becoming very involved in the local film community. She has been in the business for many years. Her career began as a model, then moved into commercials and ultimately on to film. While in Los Angeles, she has studied with various top industry coaches such as Ivana Chubbuck, Lesly Kahn, Cameron Watson. And has studied improv at The Groundlings School and UCB-Upright Citizens Brigade, and she has maintained a belief in consistently studying her craft in order to be ready for the next big opportunity. AnnMarie has been cast in over 35 films; where she has played a variety of characters ranging from a courtroom judge to a street hooker. She won the Best Actress award for her role as Trixie in The Trixie Fixx (2010) at the 48 Hour Film Project, beating out actresses from 70 other films. In addition, she was the lead actress in Swinger (2008) which won the Best Drama award at the Gulf Coast Film Festival in 2008. Other award winning films she has worked on include, Helen Alone(2014) won Festival Award in the Madrid International Film Festival, Chiaroscuro (2009) which received the Silver Remi award at Worldfest 2010, The Showdown (2008) which won Best Action Drama at the South Slam Film Festival, and Destitution (2007)" which took the Best Drama award at the Indie Gathering Film Festival. AnnMarie not only shines as an actress, but has found success behind the camera as well. She has dipped her hands in many crew positions and loves taking on the role of being a casting director too. She ultimately prefers acting more than anything, but looks forward to casting and directing in the future. AnnMarie finds time for her other loves as well, such as traveling, cooking, gardening, exercising, going to movies, and reading. The social person she is makes her love to entertain and attend various community events. By: Anonymous