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Avis-Marie Barnes

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Avis-Marie Barnes

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

Nov 2, 1958 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Montclair, New Jersey, USA

Biography

Avis-Marie Barnes was born in NJ and raised in Montclair. She did not realize her love for the theater until her Freshman year in high school when a classmate, set to direct a one-act play, asked her to play a role in it. She went from not knowing what she wanted to do, to seeing the rest of her life. After attending Howard University’s Fine Arts Department and receiving her BFA, she moved back to New Jersey and worked in New York theater for 13 years, as well as working in films as an extra, and in soaps, and commercials. In 1992 an opportunity came to attend a seminar to meet casting directors and talent agencies in Orlando, Florida, at a time when Florida was being tapped as “Hollywood East”. After the seminar, she made the leap to leave New Jersey and move to Florida in the hopes of obtaining an agent and a SAG card and taking that back to New Jersey. But after a time of steadily increasing work in Industrials, television, voiceover, films, and theater; as well as trying her hand at directing theatrical productions – she has made Florida home. But, in her heart, she is still from New Jersey! Along the way, she has put together a business building and maintaining websites, filming actors’ auditions and sending them to the proper casting offices, and holding classes teaching others how to audition in front of the camera – and how to film auditions as well.

Known For

Acting
2025F1Diner Waitress
2025My Mother the MadamLoretta Danielle
2025The WaterfrontDaphne
2023Pain HustlersPrincipal
2023Will TrentTheresa Rothwell
2022Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.Sabina
2022GirlfriendshipMrs. Williams
2022The Summer I Turned PrettyMrs. Evans
2021Looking in the MirrorBeatrice
2020Murder RX
2019The DirtOfficer
2019WavesDoctor
2019Doom PatrolBeekeeper
2018KNOCK KNOCK
2018Lodge 49
2017The QuadAunt Vida
2016GreenleafMisty Williams
2016Stranger ThingsElderly Woman
2014The Breaking PointJackie
2014ResurrectionSharon
2013Sleepy HollowNight Shift Nurse
2011CassadagaSusan
2010The GladesMinnie
2007Burn NoticeJudy
2007Army WivesNurse Karen
2007Army WivesFaith Moyer
2003One Tree HillMarion
2001Jeepers CreepersOfficer Natasha Weston
2000SheenaDoctor
1999Chapter ZeroDoctor
1998Dawson's CreekCounselor
1997Catherine's GroveMalatasia
1996Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School Bus #17Detective Grantham
1996IlltownOfficer Bright
1996Kenan & KelNurse Manly
1995Saved By The LightAttending Nurse
1993seaQuest DSVFemale Hauler