Michal Sinnott
Michal Sinnott is an American actress, screenwriter and producer. She is best known as the voice, likeness, & performance capture artist for Tracey De Santa in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V (2013), a project she worked on for three years.
Early Life and Career[edit]
Born Michal Shalom Leamer in Rock Island, IL, Michal is the eldest of three children to Brad Leamer and Griselda Taylor. After her parents divorced when she was six, she and her brothers were raised by their mother in Norfolk, VA. Sinnott began acting at the age of seven when her mother, who has her Master’s degree in Theatre, was asked to bring Sinnott along for a commercial she was auditioning for; they both were hired for the job.
That first job led to other local roles in commercials, radio and theatre. As a child, Sinnott had a small role in Ironclads (1991), directed by Delbert Mann. Occasional film and television roles followed, whenever a SAG production came to Virginia.
Sinnott graduated from the Governor's School for the Arts (GSA) Drama Department with a love of acting but no plans to pursue a career in the field. For years, Sinnott had watched her mother struggle in the industry. She changed her mind, however, when a play she wrote at GSA won Theatre Virginia's Young Playwrights Festival and she attended a three-week program in Richmond, where her play, The Waterbabies, was subsequently mounted and had a staged reading with Equity Actors. That play would later be the seed idea for her feature, Born That Way.
After attending The University of Virginia for a year, Sinnott transferred to Catholic University, where she graduated with a B.A. in Drama. After college she worked briefly as a flight attendant before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career.
While in NY, she studied at the now-closed GATE acting conservatory. The program was run and taught by Stella Adler-trained actor and teacher Gregory Abels . She also studied Meisner under Paul Le Mos and Maggie Flanigan. She is featured in the book "Acting Teachers of America" as a student of Gregory Abels.[1]
While in New York City she appeared as a solo performer in a performance art piece and video installation at The Whitney Museum of American Art for Xavier Cha, who’s work, Body Drama, utilized a select group of actors to perform solo in the museum at different scheduled times wearing a body-mounted camera. When they weren’t performing, various solo performances were projected in the gallery at solo intervals.[2]
She is a co-host of the podcast The Test[3], a dinner party like long form interview that focuses on women in entertainment. Each one and a half to two hour long episode interviews a different woman in the industry about her life and passes the Bechdel Test in it’s form. [4]
Michal is a Creative Partner with the Los Angeles based, Ovation nominated theatre company, The Vagrancy.[5]
Michal is the writer / producer / and actress of the magical realist narrative feature, Born That Way, currently in late Development.
Sinnott appears in TV shows like CBS Schoolbreak Special, The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science, and Ghost Stories , and as multiple characters on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and One Life to Live (in a recurring role), and in films such as Quid Pro Quo with Vera Farmiga , HorrorCon, & Spike Lee’s Inside Man.
Filmography[edit]
| Film | Roll |
|---|---|
| Ironclads (TV Movie 1991) | Ella Mae |
| CBS Schoolbreak special (TV Series 1992) | (1 episode, 1992) |
| Ghost Stories (TV Series 1997) | Brenda (1 episode, 1997) |
| All My Children (TV Series 2005) | Jenny (1 episode, 2005) |
| Sorry, Haters (2005) | Rap Star's Girl |
| The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science | |
| Independently Blue (2008) | Trish |
| Inside Man (2006) | Lori Minitte (uncredited) |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series 2003-2008) | Julie/ Yong Christine/ Katya Jalenak (3 episodes, 2003-2008) |
| Quid Pro Quo (2008) | Issac's Mom |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series 2003-2008) | Julie/ Yong Christine/ Katya Jalenak (3 episodes, 2003-2008) |
| One Life to Live (TV Series 2005-2009) | Priscilla/ Annie (8 episodes, 2005-2009) |
| They're Out of the Business (2011) | Yoga Girl |
| Ripe (Short 2011) | Jade |
| Walking Away (2012) | Chloe |
| Red Pine (Short 2012) | Agnes McVee |
| Grand Theft Auto V (Video Game 2013) | Tracey Townley/ De Santa (voice) |
| HorrorCon (2014) | Wendy Whipper |
| Tomorrow's Thespians (TV Series 2015-2016) | Judge (12 episodes, 2015-2016) |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Michal Sinnott... Got the Part".
- ↑ "Xavier Cha: Body Drama - Whitney Museum of American Art". whitney.org.
- ↑ Palmer, Colby. "Cinefemme: The Art and Soul of Filmmaking". Cinefemme.
- ↑ "The Test by Michal Sinnott & Jessica Rotondi on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts.
- ↑ Morris, Steven Leigh (13 June 2013). "Theater to See in L.A. This Week: Our Hollywood Fringe Preview".
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