Avis-Marie Barnes

Known for ActingBorn 1958-11-02 (age 67)Montclair, New Jersey, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

My Mother the Madam

Stranger Things

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Kenan & Kel

F1

One Tree Hill

Doom Patrol

Sleepy Hollow

Waves

Burn Notice

Army Wives

Will Trent

Resurrection

The Waterfront

Dawson's Creek

Greenleaf

R.A.D.A.R.: The Adventures of the Bionic Dog

Girlfriendship

seaQuest DSV

The Glades

KNOCK KNOCK

Lodge 49

Pain Hustlers

Jeepers Creepers

Illtown

Chapter Zero

Sheena

The Quad

Cassadaga

Murder RX

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School Bus #17

Saved By The Light

Catherine's Grove

The Breaking Point

The Dirt

Looking in the Mirror