Draft:Monica Angrand
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Comment: Free edited movie databases such as IMDb and MUBi(which you provided) are unreliable sources. ANUwrites 01:16, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
Monica Angrand (born February 28th in New York City) is an American actress and photographer. She is known for her performances in films by American underground filmmaker and actor Mike Kuchar, and in German actor and director Ulli Lommel's America: Land of the Freeks[1][2]
Early Life
[edit]Monica Angrand was born in New York City. Her mother, Beverly Lanier Kaufman Angrand (1947-2013) was an artist and an educator. Her great-grandmother, poet Marguerite Lanier Kaufman was a founding member of The Poet's Roundtable of Arkansas, and was also the grand-niece of American poet and musician, Sidney Lanier.
At five years old, she and her mother left New York City and relocated to Little Rock, Arkansas. As a teenager, she attended Stagedoor Manor performing arts summer camp, where she studied jazz dance and theater, and continued her dance studies at Little Rock's Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School. After high school, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee where she studied acting with Red West before moving to Los Angeles, California to pursue acting full time. She expanded her studies in voice and body with Arthur Lessac in Santa Monica, California to aid with dialect, accent reduction and body wisdom; while earning an Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts, Theater, and Photography from Santa Monica College.
Career
[edit]While attending a film screening at Los Angeles Filmforum, she met filmmaker Mike Kuchar, and shortly after, acted in her first film with the legendary director. She performed in the film Midnight Suite, which was shown at a Los Angeles Filmforum Kuchar brothers film screening, and also the film Fallen Angels, which debuted at The Tate Modern in London during a retrospective of both Mike Kuchar and his brother George Kuchar's work.
She has also appeared in Netflix One Piece, Boy Kills World, and in the Norweigian limited series Escaping Bolivia.
Her photography was published in the PhMuseum photobook Familiar Stranger in 2020.
Filmography
[edit]- Midnight Suite (2011) as Unholy Woman
- Fallen Angels (2013) as Fallen Angel
- Running From WISHconsin (2015) as Betty
- America: Land of the Freaks (2018) as Poppy
- Boy Kills World (2023) as Manic Woman
Television
[edit]- One Piece (2022) as Upper-Class Merchant
- Escaping Bolivia (2025) as Officer Garcia