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Avis-Marie Barnes
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…
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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.
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2025
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2025
F1
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2025
The Waterfront
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2023
Pain Hustlers
Movie Principal
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2023
R.A.D.A.R.: The Adventures of the Bionic Dog
Movie Ethel
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2023
Will Trent
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2022
Girlfriendship
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2022
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Movie Sabina
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2022
The Summer I Turned Pretty
TV show Mrs. Evans
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2021
Looking in the Mirror
Movie Beatrice
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2020
Murder RX
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2019
Waves
Movie Doctor
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2019
The Dirt
Movie Officer
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2019
Doom Patrol
TV show Beekeeper
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2018
KNOCK KNOCK
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2018
Lodge 49
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2017
The Quad
TV show Aunt Vida
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2016
Max Steel
Movie Ms. Bernardo
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2016
Stranger Things
TV show Elderly Woman
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2016
Greenleaf
TV show Misty Williams
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2014
Resurrection
TV show Sharon
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2014
The Breaking Point
Movie Jackie
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2013
Sleepy Hollow
TV show Night Shift Nurse
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2011
Cassadaga
Movie Susan
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2010
The Glades
TV show Minnie
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2007
Burn Notice
TV show Judy
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2007
Army Wives
TV show Nurse Karen
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2003
One Tree Hill
TV show Marion
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2001
Jeepers Creepers
Movie Officer Natasha Weston
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2000
Sheena
TV show Doctor
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1999
Chapter Zero
Movie Doctor
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1998
Dawson's Creek
TV show Counselor
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1997
Catherine's Grove
Movie Malatasia
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1996
Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School Bus #17
Movie Detective Grantham
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1996
Kenan & Kel
TV show Nurse Manly
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1996
Illtown
Movie Officer Bright
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1995
Saved By The Light
Movie Attending Nurse
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1993
seaQuest DSV
TV show Female Hauler
