Brenda Strong

Brenda Strong

actress, producer, director

Brenda Strong was born on Mar 25, 1960 in USA. Brenda Strong's big-screen debut came with Shadow Chasers - Season 1 directed by Bob Sweeney in 1985. Brenda Strong is known for 13 Reasons Why directed by Jessica Yu, Dylan Minnette stars as Clay Jensen and Christian Navarro as Tony Padilla. Brenda Strong has got 14 awards and 10 nominations so far. The most recent award Brenda Strong achieved is Topaz Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Brenda Strong plays is Deported which will be released on Mar 13, 2020.

Brenda Strong may be best known for her seminal acting and voice portrayal of "Mary Alice Young" on Desperate Housewives, but this two-time Emmy-nominated and SAG Award-winning actress has had a long and endearing film and television career. In addition to her success as a working actress, in 2017 she joined her husband John Farmanesh-Bocca (aka John Farzad Strong), in creating their production company, End Stop Star Entertainment, which has produced two multi-award winning short films- 'I Did Not Forget You' and '#3 Normandy Lane.' The latter, her directorial debut, showed in 21 film festivals world-wide and won 12 film festival awards, including several best narrative short, best first-time filmmaker, and two best actress awards for her lead, Scottie Thompson. In 2019, she went on to direct two pivotal episodes on 13 Reasons Why for Netflix in their fourth and final season. She is currently prepping for her directorial film debut and is a proud DGA member. She is currently working on a series of books to empower women, both fiction and non-fiction.Graduating with a degree in Musical Theatre from Arizona State University, she made her career debut with Mel Brooks' Spaceballs and Aaron Sorkin's Malice.Television audiences have come to know her in such diverse roles as "Sue Ellen Mishke" (aka "The Braless Wonder) on Seinfeld, "Kathleen Isley" in Party of Five, "Sally Sasser" in Sports Night, and three seasons as "Ann Ewing" in Dallas, the reboot of Dallas, for TNT. Her more recent turns include "Ilene Stowe" in Season 2 of Fear the Walking Dead (2016-17) and as "Lillian Luthor" on CW's Supergirl (2016-21). She also played Nora Walker on 13 Reasons Why (2017-19)In the world of Theatre, she played "Tamara", opposite Jack Stehlin, in Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble's/New American Theatre's co-production of "Titus Redux" at CTG's Kirk Douglas Theatre. Most recently on stage in Los Angeles, she played a fantasy role in Nick Jones' Ovation-nominated play, "Trevor", at Circle X Theatre, with Laurie Metcalf and Jimmi Simpson. She has been in two of John Farmanesh-Bocca's Multi-Award winning plays, "Tempest Redux", and "Lysistrata Unbound" starring in the titular role at The Odyssey Theatre. A bit of trivia: She sang with the Millennium Choir at the Vatican in 2000 and toured with composer Beppe Cantarelli as one of his premiere soloists, singing in Latin and Italian throughout Italy.

  • Birthday

    Mar 25, 1960
  • Place of Birth

    Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Also known

    Μπρέντα Στρονγκ

Known For

Awards

14 wins & 10 nominations

Topaz Film Festival
2021
New Filmmaker
Winner - Judges Award
#3 Normandy Lane (2019)
Dam Short Film Festival
2019
Best Drama
Winner - Dam Short Award
#3 Normandy Lane (2019)
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