Andrea Carlisle

Those who love scary stories and horror movies would be great admirers of the works of Andrea Carlisle. After all, he appeared in several horror live events, short films and wrote screenplays and a novel about ghosts and evil cult members. Andrea came into the world in the year 1992 in Marseille, France. The siren call of acting captured this coastal Mediterranean early in life. He began studying the craft and soon was auditioning. Not satisfied to wait for opportunity to come to him he wrote and produced his own television pilot. He also found every opportunity to be on set even if it required defying death or injury from inept directors or nearly drowning in coconut milk used as an effect for a hoard of zombies. Andrea received a well-rounded education at Acting International in Paris and the Los Angeles Performing Arts Conservatory in Santa Monica. From the classic, to the contemporary, to the avant-garde, experiencing a variety of world drama and comedy through training in film, television, and stage. His mentors include Natalia Lazarus (The Young & The Restless, The Bold & The Beautiful, Sesame Street...) Carolyn Michelle Smith (House of Cards, How to Get Away with Murder...) and Martin Thompson (Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, Criminal Minds, Wanderlust...). Then came the big move, off to Los Angeles where he rose early to apply for any project that would give him more experience on an American set. And so far it has borne fruit including being one of Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger's victims for "Nightmare on Camp Crystal Lake" for Warner Brothers, dancing in a commercial aired on the GRAMMYs, tearfully mourning a lost wife in one of southern California's biggest sound stages, and exuberantly inhaling a Burger King sandwich for a viral campaign were he will be featured by the company online. As a writer, Andrea has been selected several times as a semi-finalist in well-known horror film festivals around the country and has been encouraged to write more about these subjects. Thus, he spent two years of his life writing "Shadows of the Past" a supernatural book series coming soon. Andrea is a versatile artist whose works include acting, writing, design, photography and editing. Representatives have begun reaching out, his journey is just beginning. So perhaps the moral of the story is that this industry rewards perseverance. It also rewards an absence of self-doubt and a willingness to be a fool, or ugly-cry, or get ketchup in the upholstery. Everyone has their personal obstacles, and each requires a different set of solutions. Andrea has shown, and continues to show, that the answers are there as long as one is willing to look.