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Deadly Beauty: Horror’s Scream Queens and Rising Talent: Brenda-Marie Whitehead

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Deadly Beauty: Horror’s Scream Queens and Rising Talent: Brenda-Marie Whitehead

65745_1196202561409_1308737_n“Brenda-Marie Whitehead was born Brenda-Marie Cantrell in Fort Smith, Arkansas. While growing up she was always told she was a descendant of the infamous William Clarke Quantrill. She lived in Arkansas during her early teens, and then moved to Oklahoma with family. She co-owned a business that was started in Oklahoma back in the mid 90’s called “Celebrity Meet and Greet”. It’s a convention where Celebrities meet fans and sign autographs. After talking with many of the actors that attended, and with encouragement from friends and family, she pursued her acting dreams.

After research, and a lot of patience, she was able to get background extra work in a few movies…..”Boys on the Side”, “Twister”, and “The Lost Son” to name a few. After the background work, she attended “Oscar Night America Party Gala” in Tucson. She was offered acting lessons for a month with renown acting coach Aileen Reid. She enjoyed the lessons so much that she signed up for a much longer term. You can never have enough as the saying goes. Continued acting lessons helped her land a few commercials in Tucson for the Desert Diamond Casino, Old Tucson Movie Studios and Corona Beer.

She went to Hollywood in 2000 to be in a couple of episodes on MADtv. She was featured in a comedy sketch as an Opening Scene Traveler and Passenger with Mo Collins and Christian Duguay. This was her first real exposure of being on a nationally televised TV show.

Her Celebrity Meet and Greet business produced a Breast Cancer benefit in Buena Park, California. Mickey Rooney and 100’s of Celebrities attended. All of the admission and auction revenue were donated to the cause. She is also an avid animal lover and supporter of animal rights, animal welfare and donates continuously to various animal charities. Meet her Pomeranian “Jasper Blue”.

She loves working out & walking. Speaking of walking, she was bikini girl #19 in the Guinness World Book of Records attempt at the largest Bikini Parade with Holly Madison in Las Vegas Nevada on 5/14/2009.

Her latest role was playing one of the lead characters as “Lola” in “High On The Hog” that was shot this summer in Galena Illinois and surrounding areas. She was thrilled and honored to be cast in this feature film that also stars iconic actors Sid Haig, Joe Estevez, Robert Z’Dar.

Brenda has a strange talent that some call a gift. She can actually cure hiccups. She cured actress Cindy Williams hiccups in Dallas while they were having dinner together. What’s really funny, is the look on their faces when it stops. This has nothing to do with scaring you, drinking anything or holding your breath and it works 99% of the time. She’s quoted as saying…..”I wish I could tell you, but if I did that, well then I’d just have to kill you”!

She recently co-wrote a western short titled “No Rest For The Wicked” with Alex Whitmer that is in pre-productiuon and will shoot in the fall of 2013.

You can catch many of her clips and work on her Youtube Channel and on Vimeo.

Brenda-Marie Whitehead was nicknamed “BMW” by her peers in the acting community and is becoming very popular with directors and producers!”*

Location: Oklahoma City

1. How did you get into the industry?

Went to acting schools and worked my way up.

2. What Scream Queen inspired you most?

Brinke Stevens.

3. What are the next couple projects you are working on?

I just finished a movie a few months ago with iconic actor Sid Haig called “High On The Hog“. Also, I just co-wrote my western horror movie and it will be in production in early 2013 called “No Rest For The Wicked“.

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* Bio Courtesy of Brenda-Marie Whitehead’s Official Website

Dedman13

Owner of Slit of the Wrist FX and producer, actor, FX artist and writer.

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