Monica Angrand
Monica Angrand (born February 28th in New York City) is an American actress, comedian, and photographer. She is known for her performances in films by American underground filmmaker and actor Mike Kuchar, and in German actor and director Ulli Lommel's film Mondo Americana.[1]
Biography[2][edit]
Monica Angrand was born in New York City. At five years old, she and her mother left New York City and relocated to Little Rock, Arkansas. As a teenager, she attended Stagedoor Manor performing arts summer camp, where she studied jazz dance and theater, and continued her dance studies at Little Rock's Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School. After high school, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee where she studied acting with Red West before moving to Los Angeles, California to pursue acting full time. She expanded her studies in voice and body with Arthur Lessac in Santa Monica, California to aid with dialect, accent reduction and body wisdom; while earning an Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts, Theater, and Photography from Santa Monica College.As a personal goal, she enrolled at Harvard Extension to complete her degree.
While attending a film screening at Los Angeles Filmforum[3], she met filmmaker Mike Kuchar, and shortly after, acted in her first film with the legendary director. She performed in the film Midnight Suite,[4][5] which was shown at a Los Angeles Filmforum Kuchar brothers film screening,[6] and also the film Fallen Angels,[7][8] which debuted at The Tate Modern[9] in London during a retrospective of both Mike Kuchar and his brother George Kuchar's work.
Filmography[edit]
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Mondo Americana | Poppy | |
| 2015 | Running From WISHconsin | Betty | |
| 2013 | Fallen Angels | Fallen Angel | Short |
| 2011 | Midnight Suite | Unholy Woman | Short |
Miscellaneous[edit]
Her great-grandmother, poet and artist Marguerite Lanier Kaufman was a founding member of The Poet's Roundtable of Arkansas, and was also the grand-niece of American poet and musician, Sidney Lanier.
In 2011, during Carmageddon Los Angeles, a photo of her car-free activism at Interstate 405, wearing a t-shirt she designed, made the cover of the Los Angeles Times.[10] This inspired her to trademark KARMAGEDDON™[11] for a line of clothing and ideals associated with and supporting the car-free movement.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Mondo Americana (2015)". pro-labs.imdb.com. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ "Monica Angrand". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
- ↑ "Filmforum: 2 Nights of Videos With Mike Kuchar - Cinema Without Borders". Cinema Without Borders. 2013-04-07. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
- ↑ "Midnight Suite | Video Data Bank". www.vdb.org. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ Kuchar, Mike (2013-04-14), Midnight Suite, Monica Angrand, retrieved 2017-10-20
- ↑ "Filmforum: 2 Nights of Videos With Mike Kuchar - Cinema Without Borders". Cinema Without Borders. 2013-04-07. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
- ↑ "Fallen Angels | Video Data Bank". www.vdb.org. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ Kuchar, Mike (2013-12-01), Fallen Angels, Monica Angrand, Anthony A. Russell, Ryan Wylie, retrieved 2017-10-20
- ↑ Tate. "Mike Kuchar 6: Digital daydreams – Film at Tate Modern | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
- ↑ "Santa Monica Resident Monica Angrand gets into the spirit in the..." Getty Images. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
- ↑ "TESS -- Error". tmsearch.uspto.gov. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
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