BIO
Tanna Frederick is an award-winning Stage and Film Actress, Producer, and Environmental Activist. She most recently completed principle photography as the lead in South of Hope Street in Switzerland in March 2020. In 2019, Tanna produced and stars in the feature film TWO WAYS HOME, now enjoying an award-winning run on the festival circuit. Concurrently, Tanna alongside Randal Kleiser (director, Grease, Blue Lagoon) launched DEFROST, a live-action virtual reality experience, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes.
Miss Frederick has previously starred in seven feature films directed by film iconoclast Henry Jaglom, including Ovation!, Irene in Time and Hollywood Dreams. Her recent theatrical credits include John Patrick Shanley’s Danny & the Deep Blue Sea (LA Times Critics Pick) directed by Carl Weathers (Rocky), The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka which was a select at the National Black Theater Festival, and The Rainmaker, which earned her The LA Stage Best Actress Award, the EDDON Award, and an LA Times Critics Choice Award. Frederick has garnered Best Actress awards for her work on screen from the Montana Independent Film Festival, World Fest Houston, Wild Rose Film Festival, and the Fargo Film Festival. Method Fest named her “One to Watch” and she received the CineCause Award, the University of Iowa’s Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival’s Maverick Award from Danny Glover. She recently has enjoyed Grand Jury Awards for her work as a Producer on TWO WAYS HOME in 2019, which has been recently endorsed by NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) as a film which “makes a valuable contribution to the public understanding of mental health issues and to reduce stigma surrounding mental health”.
She is the founder of ProjectSaveOurSurf.org (@PSOSurf) hosting monthly beach cleanups and a camp that has reached thousands of underprivileged youth in Southern California and Mexico, educating them on environmental issues with hands-on instruction in yoga and surfing. Tanna is a marathon runner, a fifth-degree black belt, and has appeared on the cover of Black Belt Magazine and Taekwondo. She has been featured in Runners World, Women’s Fitness Magazine, Women’s Running, and Marathon and Beyond. She appears this month on the cover of Ability Magazine in the “Tanna Frederick Issue”.
Tanna is a true golden age throwback. I can easily see her as a contract player of the Thirties. A brassy, saucy, firecracker, full of moxie, a dame who could pull a heist, crack a joke, break a heart, croon a tune, and never muss her hair
Concurrently, Tanna alongside Randal Kleiser (director, Grease, Blue Lagoon) launched DEFROST, a live-action virtual reality experience, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes. Miss Frederick has previously starred in seven feature films directed by film iconoclast Henry Jaglom, including Ovation!, Irene in Time and Hollywood Dreams.
Her recent theatrical credits include John Patrick Shanley’s Danny & the Deep Blue Sea (LA Times Critics Pick) directed by Carl Weathers (Rocky), The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka which was a select at the National Black Theater Festival, and The Rainmaker, which earned her The LA Stage Best Actress Award, the EDDON Award, and an LA Times Critics Choice Award.
Unless you see the current production of The Rainmaker, you’ve simply never seen this play. Each performance should be distilled, bottled, and preserved for posterity but the standout of this cast is TANNA FREDERICK – who by some magic of theatrical alchemy – performs a transformation not to be missed!
Frederick has garnered Best Actress awards for her work on screen from the Montana Independent Film Festival, World Fest Houston, Wild Rose Film Festival, and the Fargo Film Festival. Method Fest named her “One to Watch” and she received the CineCause Award, the University of Iowa’s Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival’s Maverick Award from Danny Glover.
She recently has enjoyed Grand Jury Awards for her work as a Producer on TWO WAYS HOME in 2019, which has been recently endorsed by NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) as a film which “makes a valuable contribution to the public understanding of mental health issues and to reduce stigma surrounding mental health”.
She is the founder of ProjectSaveOurSurf.org (@PSOSurf) hosting monthly beach cleanups and a camp that has reached thousands of underprivileged youth in Southern California and Mexico, educating them on environmental issues with hands-on instruction in yoga and surfing.
Tanna is a marathon runner, a fifth-degree black belt, and has appeared on the cover of Black Belt Magazine and Taekwondo. She has been featured in Runners World, Women’s Fitness Magazine, Women’s Running, and Marathon and Beyond. She appears this month on the cover of Ability Magazine in the “Tanna Frederick Issue”.
