Avis-Marie Barnes

About

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...

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Stranger ThingsSeries • 2016One Tree HillSeries • 2003Dawson's CreekSeries • 1998Doom PatrolSeries • 2019Burn NoticeSeries • 2007Will TrentSeries • 2023F1Movie • 2025The Summer I Turned PrettySeries • 2022Sleepy HollowSeries • 2013Army WivesSeries • 2007seaQuest DSVSeries • 1993The GladesSeries • 2010GreenleafSeries • 2016Kenan & KelSeries • 1996The QuadSeries • 2017SheenaSeries • 2000Lodge 49Series • 2018ResurrectionSeries • 2014Jeepers CreepersMovie • 2001The WaterfrontSeries • 2025WavesMovie • 2019Pain HustlersMovie • 2023The DirtMovie • 2019Max SteelMovie • 2016