Silvana Vienne

An actress and singer born on the day of French Independence (Bastille Day), Silvana works on dramatic projects with depth & interesting or strong characters. Her preferred material are well-written comedies, or dramas about strong women who went against the odds and made a difference. On the flip side, Silvana also is very good with light comedy, having excellent timing for it! Classically and Meisner-trained in New York City and Los Angeles, she has studied with the legendary Robert Easton, as well as Michelle Danner, Larry Moss, Uta Hagen's H.B. Studios, and spent summers studying Shakespeare and theatre at London Academy of Music and Drama, Shakespeare & Company, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, William Esper's Levin Theatre, and the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire. Silvana also has a B.A. with Honors in Theatre Arts, from Rutgers University. With a lot of experience also in both film & modern stage roles, she has a very wide range of modern characters she can play, from a young FBI agent, to the warm & old-fashioned Izzy in 'Crossing Delancey', to the New Age singer Stardust, to Jenny in Neil Simon's 'Chapter 2' and Rosalind in 'As You Like It'... and everything in between. Silvana spent her early childhood in Manaus, a city on the river of the Amazon of Brazil. In South America at the time, soap operas were the rage, and even little kids would stay up to watch them! But Silvana fell in love with acting even before that, when she would go with her grandmother Sylvia to see children's traveling productions at the turn-of-the-century built Opera House, and she decided to become an actress after seeing the movie Ben-Hur at the local cinema. And when she saw an article in the newspaper about a casting call for her favorite tv show, Sitio do Picapau Amarelo (The Farm of the Yellow Woodpecker), Silvana knew she was going to be an actress. (she didn't make it to that audition as it was very far away, in Rio de Janeiro but the acting bug definately bit. Soon Grandma Sylvia was taking her to acting and dancing rehearsals in various productions around Manaus. She has appeared in a wide range of stage roles (classic & modern) in New York and L.A. as well as indie film projects.