Marianne Shine
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
Marianne is a Drama Therapist and an actress. She is a first generation American with a Danish mother and a Hungarian father. Her brother Christopher Heltai is also an actor. Two of her sons are in the industry Cooper Shine is an LA cinematographer and Sawyer Shine is an LA actor. Her cousin Yasmina Reza is an accomplished playwright in Paris. Marianne lives in the Bay Area but grew up New Jersey. When she's not acting, she works as a Drama Therapist doing Shakespeare behind Bars at San Quentin Prison through Marin Shakespeare Company's Social Justice Program She also has a private practice. She is represented by Stars the Agency. She creates one woman shows at StageWerx and competes on The Moth. She will appear in a three part documentary on the modeling industry in Paris during the 1980's called 'Scouting for Girls."
TV Credits
Scouting for Girls: Fashion's Darkest Secret
Character: Self
Documentary series lifting the lid on the abusive behaviours of a group of men behind the world's most successful modelling agencies....
Movie Credits
Beatific Vision
Character:
Michael's (Michael Vega) lover, Chad, dies of cancer and then he reappears at Michael's side as an angel to guide him through the next stages of life -- which is a good thing, since Michael's life soon becomes exceedingly complicated. Harboring growing feelings for both the psychiatrist Chad has instructed to console him and the cute boy he meets online shortly after Chad's death, Michael is going to need celestial intervention in this romantic drama....
Mandorla
Character: Carrie
The only journey is the one within. Mandorla explores a man's search for a meaningful life despite conflicts between his inner and outer worlds. Ernesto is a visual artist and seeker stuck in a corporate job, who is drawn by dark magical visions to a medieval French city. There he seeks an elusive banker to help him unlock an obscure dream that threatens his job, family, and sanity....
The Book of Jane
Character: Alice
Alice, a college Professor of Comparative Religious Studies, meets an enigmatic older woman who roams the campus, sleeps under a bridge, and rattles her with disturbing insights that forever alters the course of her existence....