Actress, marathon runner, charity organiser and self-confessed workaholic, Tanna Frederick is an extraordinarily accomplished woman who still seems slightly bashful when talking about it. A co-founder of the Iowa Independent Film Festival, she often travels on the festival circuit, where she’s picked up a couple of Best Actress awards, and divides the rest of her working life between independent films and the stage. We catch up just after she’s wrapped on Ovation, a sequel to 2010 indie hit Queen Of The Lot. She’s still buzzing about the shoot, which re-united her with star James Denton and assorted friends.
“Tomorrow I go back on the boards,” she tells me, having barely had a day to recover. “We’ve been running a play called Rainmaker. It opened to great reviews. It’s fantastic doing theatre in Los Angeles again.”
The play has been running since January, but Tanna recently had two weekends off.
“Tomorrow I go back on the boards,” she tells me, having barely had a day to recover. “We’ve been running a play called Rainmaker. It opened to great reviews. It’s fantastic doing theatre in Los Angeles again.”
The play has been running since January, but Tanna recently had two weekends off.
- 9/2/2013
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Kat Kramer attends Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. Noah Wyle attends Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. Tanna Frederick and Ron Vignone attend Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. Simon Jaglom and Henry Jaglom attend Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. Dennis Christopher attends Queen of the Lot Los Angeles Premiere.Photo copyright Tina Gill / PR Photos. 11/18/2010 - Leslie David Baker - "Queen of the Lot" Los Angeles Premiere - Arrivals - Directors Guild of America - Los Angeles, CA, USA © Tina Gill /...
- 11/22/2010
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith
HollywoodNews.com: When motivational guru Tony Robbins debuts his powerful new NBC “Breakthrough With Tony Robbins” reality show July 27, viewers will see such astonishing stories as that of a man who broke his neck at his own wedding reception and became a quadriplegic – who discovers he can still have a full life through a string of challenges that includes skydiving over Fiji. He and his wife…well, have the Kleenex ready.
Robbins tells us that there was so much more story to each of the six hour-long shows he’s prepared, “We’re going to do a ‘Breakthrough’ Insider kind of site. These were 30-day journeys, and so much more happened than we can show.”
Indeed. Late legendary basketball coach John Wooden gave his final pep talk to a single athlete — Juaquin Hawkins, once known as the Oldest Rookie in the NBA, who...
HollywoodNews.com: When motivational guru Tony Robbins debuts his powerful new NBC “Breakthrough With Tony Robbins” reality show July 27, viewers will see such astonishing stories as that of a man who broke his neck at his own wedding reception and became a quadriplegic – who discovers he can still have a full life through a string of challenges that includes skydiving over Fiji. He and his wife…well, have the Kleenex ready.
Robbins tells us that there was so much more story to each of the six hour-long shows he’s prepared, “We’re going to do a ‘Breakthrough’ Insider kind of site. These were 30-day journeys, and so much more happened than we can show.”
Indeed. Late legendary basketball coach John Wooden gave his final pep talk to a single athlete — Juaquin Hawkins, once known as the Oldest Rookie in the NBA, who...
- 7/14/2010
- by Beck / Smith
- Hollywoodnews.com
(Tanna Frederick in Henry Jaglom's "Just 45 Minutes From Broadway," above, with David Garver.)
By Terry Keefe
The manner in which Iowa native Tanna Frederick received her break as an actress has sort of become a independent filmmaking legend, but it bears repeating, as a lesson in the type of chutzpah required to get anywhere in the film business. After a few years of struggling in the audition trenches of Hollywood, Frederick was told by a fellow actor that filmmaker Henry Jaglom often responded to fan letters. Frederick proceeded to write a copious letter to Jaglom, praising the merits of his 1997 film Deja Vu…which she had never actually seen. Nonetheless, a correspondence between Frederick and Jaglom began, and eventually, Jaglom gave the actress permission to do a stage production of his 1971 film debut, A Safe Place, the cinematic version of which starred Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, and Tuesday Weld.
By Terry Keefe
The manner in which Iowa native Tanna Frederick received her break as an actress has sort of become a independent filmmaking legend, but it bears repeating, as a lesson in the type of chutzpah required to get anywhere in the film business. After a few years of struggling in the audition trenches of Hollywood, Frederick was told by a fellow actor that filmmaker Henry Jaglom often responded to fan letters. Frederick proceeded to write a copious letter to Jaglom, praising the merits of his 1997 film Deja Vu…which she had never actually seen. Nonetheless, a correspondence between Frederick and Jaglom began, and eventually, Jaglom gave the actress permission to do a stage production of his 1971 film debut, A Safe Place, the cinematic version of which starred Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, and Tuesday Weld.
- 3/18/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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