Tina French (Curriculum Vitae). Avant - gard Actrees, she enrolled in experimental Mexican films of the late sixties and seventies, such as: Fando and Lis (Directed by Alexandro Jodorowsky, 1967), Anticlimax (Gelsen Gas, 1969), Alucarda (Juan López Moctezuma,1975), La Casa de Bernarda Alba ( Gustavo Alatriste,1980). As an actress she has participated in over 40 stage productions in leading roles, in plays such as: Under Milkwood, by Dylan Thomas, Exit the King, by Eugene Ionesco, Moctezuma II, by Sergio Magaña, The Balcony, by Jean Genet, King Lear, by William Shakespeare, La Celestina, by F. de Rojas, Pasiphae by Henry de Montherlant, The Ghost Sonata, by August Strindberg.
3. Tina French was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, a
nd has lived in Mexico
most of her life. She
studied English Literature
at the University of the
Americas and earned a
Performing Arts Degree
at the renowned Seki
Sano Actors Studio.
4. For several years, she wrote a weekly full page article in Mexico City’s
English language newspaper, The News, interviewing international
figures such as The Beatles, Jawaharlal Nehru, Bobby Kennedy, Frank
Sinatra, Stan Getz, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, José Feliciano, and
others
Stan Getz The Beatles
5. She had her own radio show every day
for five years on VIP Radio, where she
interviewed personalities such as Dave
Brubeck, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy
Gillespie, Paul Desmond and Joao
Gilberto
6. As a child, she won a
National Literary Award
for her short story
“Laika”, and received a
letter from Nobel Prize
Winner Boris
Pasternak, congratulatin
g her and saying he was
“proud to be her fellow”.
7. As an actress she has participated in over 40 stage
productions in leading roles, in plays such as:
Under Milkwood, by Dylan Thomas
Exit the King, by Eugene Ionesco
Moctezuma II, by Sergio Magaña The Balcony, by Jean Genet
King Lear, by William Shakespeare,
La Celestina, by F. de Rojas
Pasiphae by Henry de Montherlant
The Ghost Sonata, by August Strindberg
8. She has participated as an actress in films such as
Fando y Lis, directed by Alexandro Jodorowsky
The House of Bernarda Alba, directed
by Gustavo Alatriste, script by Luis Buñuel
Alucarda, directed by Juan López Moctezuma
9. She translated the following plays that have had successful runs in Mexico:
Hamlet and Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare
him, by E.E. Cummings
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? By Edward Albee
Lion in Winter, by James Goldman
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, by William Blake
The Rose Tattoo, by Tennessee Williams
The Pelican, by August Strindberg
10. She worked as acting and dialogue coach in the following films:
Man on Fire, directed by Tony Scott
The Legend of Zorro,
directed by Martin Campbell (to be released fall, 2005)
11. Available for work and travel anywhere in the world. US citizen.
Email:
tinitafrench@gmail.com