Marisa Sullivan

Biography

Marisa Sullivan, a Chicago native, moved out to LA after studying inFrance and attending University of Iowa, where she studied French andTheatre. She knew she wanted to be an actress for as long as she canremember and had won many lead roles in plays growing up. At the age of19, she auditioned for MTV's "Wanna Be a VJ, too?" contest withthousands of other hopefuls. She was selected as 1 of 12 finalists outof 8,000 across the country and appeared on TRL, garnering somenationwide publicity. Thinking those were pretty good odds to movefurther, she continued her studies in LA, at the Joanne Baron/D.W.Brown Studio with Elaine Williams, studying Meisner. Marisa has workedon a few independent films, commercials, music videos thus far and hasmade some television appearances on networks such as NBC, Fox NewsChannel, E!, MTV and Spike TV. Marisa has been active around the LAtheatre scene, portraying Ginger from 'Casino' in the play 'Wiseguys'and performing a lead role in 'Dark Side of the Moon', a visualperformance piece to Pink Floyd's album of the same name that got ravereviews in the LA Times. She has also recently appeared in Ray Romano'snew sitcom, 'Men of a Certain Age'. She is currently freelancing forIn Touch Weekly magazine and for Image Locations, recently managing suchshoots such as Vogue with Rachel McAdams and Dior with Sharon Stone. She hopes to go further into the production world and has a show in theworks that she will be starring in! Ultimately she wants to be actingand producing. Keep your eyes peeled for this larger than lifepersonality!