Raye Brooke
Raye Brooke Ebensteiner was born on July 26, 1999 in Edina, Minnesota to a mother, M. Jo-Anne Ebensteiner, and father, Bryan C. Ebensteiner. Her mother, Jo-Anne, was a creative in advertising, working for many agencies from McCann to Campbell Mithun to eventually owning and growing her own advertising firm. Jo-Anne began in the industry as copywriter who worked into executive creative director positions; it was only natural to pursue writing since her mother, Patricia Keough, was a journalist and author. Jo-Anne and Bryan Ebensteiner also have a son, Jack Ebensteiner, who is the older brother of Raye Brooke by ten years. Jack is a senior animator at Sony Santa Monica who has previously worked at EA Games, Naughty Dog, and Treyarch. Currently Jack has been working on the God of War series.
Career[edit]
Brooke attended school in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Minnehaha Academy. She was often in and out of school, between auditions, castings, photoshoots and working on sets of indie and short films in the Midwest. Brooke began acting at seven years old, taking theater classes at the Children's Theatre Company and the esteemed Guthrie Theater. From there, she began broadening her skill range to dance and vocals, studying singing at MacPhail Center of Music, only to find her real passion was being in front of the camera.
Raye Brooke began working as an on-camera talent and actor at twelve years old. Beginning with commercials and PSAs, Brooke's most renown PSA was for a local non-profit, Breaking Free. Breaking Free helps and rescues women from the sex trafficking industry. Brooke walked into the casting, unprepared for what was about to happen, was immediately asked for a call-back. She was then cast on the spot to play the principle character in the PSA as a young victim of sex trafficking. The role struck Brooke so much that she began to volunteer with Breaking Free to contribute to the cause.
From commercials, Brooke began to break out into film roles around the Midwest market. She found herself playing roles in horror or thriller short films. In 2013, Brooke was cast as the principle role Zoe in the film, Watch Over Me[1], that aired at Z Fest in Minneapolis. In 2014, Brooke worked in an indie short, Maryland, playing the principle role, "Maryland." While she developed a working relationship with the director of Maryland and the production studio that they decided to cast her in another indie film, Pink Toenails as their lead.
Brooke's agent in Minneapolis decided to submit her for modeling castings in addition to acting. Brooke hadn't considered modeling until she started getting bookings. Throughout high school, she modeled across the U.S. for brands such as Target, Coolibar, Hollywood Fashion Secrets, Polaroid, 3M, and Josten's. Brooke was turned onto modeling and worked between the two industries.
Outside of acting, Raye Brooke took up documentary photography[2] and writing as another outlet as a creative. Brooke submitted into the Scholastic Art Awards while in high school between 2016 and 2017, winning a total of eighteen awards for her work[3]. Three of her pieces were installed in two galleries across the Twin Cities showing in St. Paul, Minnesota between the Regis Center for Art Gallery and Dow Art Gallery. Being an up-and-coming female in the creative industry alongside her passion and skill for photography, Brooke was selected as a Girlgaze Ambassador in 2017. Girlgaze, a company founded by photographer Amanda de Cadenet, was created as a digital platform to support emerging female Gen Z creatives in the fields of writing and photography.
Brooke, still acting, decided that upon high school graduation in 2017, she would take a gap year to travel and document stories to submit to publications around the world. Her parents were not keen on the idea of taking a year off between graduation and college, but Brooke persuaded them with a 67-slide PowerPoint presentation with research and studies done on the benefits of a gap year. In the fall of 2017, Brooke took off to Southeast Asia on her own at 18 years old. She carried a backpack and her camera, and was ready to listen and hear the stories of others. It was during this time, she decided photography was a lifelong passion but not her lifelong career. Upon returning to Minnesota, she applied to over twelve art universities for the following fall across the United States, all of which she was accepted.
In 2018, she began her freshman year of college at School of the Art Institute of Chicago admitted into their B.A. Art History program. She quickly became involved on campus in clubs and groups related to photography and writing. In 2019, she became a published writer at HerCampus (How-To-Guide: Speak Like You Go to Art School (if you don't already)[4], Change in Perspective: Gratitude[5], Stop Taking Things So Personally[5], and Five Steps to Paris[6] recounting her time spent in the spring on her gap year in France), and a published photojournalist for the SAIC's magazine, F NewsMagazine with released images from her Southeast Asia travels[7]. Continuing her writing as art, Brooke was chosen for a Chicago art exhibit hosted by School of the Art Institute of Chicago called ArtBash[8]. Her piece on exhibit was fifty written human experiences that the audience and museum-goers could connect and relate to on an intimate level.
While Brooke enjoyed her studies, she shifted her focus back to the entertainment and fashion industry in Chicago and drifted from art history. Brooke signed with a new agent and knew this was her career goal. She signed with Stewart Talent and began bigger commercial acting and lifestyle modeling in a larger market. While in Chicago, Brooke was modeling for Kohl's and Burt's Bees. After a year of living in Chicago, she moved to Savannah, Georgia to finish her studies and earned a B.F.A. in Advertising Copywriting at Savannah College of Art and Design. Brooke, while a writer, photographer, and storyteller at heart, has always been a creative and is currently working in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles as an actor and model.
Personal Life[edit]
Raye Brooke is very close with her family. Her parents relocated to Palm Springs, California from Minnesota in the spring of 2021 to be closer to Brooke and her brother Jack. Brooke is close to both sides of her family. Her father, Bryan, comes from German heritage and her mother, Jo-Anne, from Irish lineage. Brooke is proud of her Irish roots and has eight tattoos dedicated to her family crest and symbolic Irish and Celtic symbols.
References[edit]
- ↑ Father Will do Anything to Protect Daughter | Watch Over Me, retrieved 2021-10-14
- ↑ "Raye Ebensteiner | Documentary Photographer". RAYE EBENSTEINER. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ↑ "Family of Man Winner / Face of a Fan / Raye Ebensteiner". photoawards.com. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ↑ "How-to-guide: Speak Like You Go to Art School (*if you don't already) | Her Campus". www.hercampus.com. 2019-04-13. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Change In Perspective: Gratitude | Her Campus". www.hercampus.com. 2019-03-16. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ↑ "Five Steps To Paris | Her Campus". www.hercampus.com. 2019-03-09. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ↑ Ebensteiner, Raye (2019-04-28). "Raye Ebensteiner Laos | Photo Essay". F Newsmagazine. Retrieved 2021-10-15.
- ↑ "ArtBash". Retrieved 2021-10-15.
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