Brenda Ball was born on November 4, 1951 as Brenda Carol Ball. She graduated from Mount Rainier High School and had recently taken classes at Highline Community College, in Des Moines, Washington, USA. She was last seen at Burien, Washington. She died on June 1, 1974 on Washington State, USA. She was 22 years old.
Brenda Ballard is an actress, known for Cellular (2004), Anderson's Cross (2010) and How I Met Your Mother (2005).
Los Angeles native actor, director, playwright and acting coach Brenda Banda grew up in South Los Angeles. She was only eleven years old when she first stepped onto a stage at Russell Elementary where she performed as MC at their 6th grade culmination. Growing up where drive-by shootings were routine, Banda took refuge in the arts and sports making them her safe heaven. A memorable 2nd grade field trip where she saw a production of Peter Pan set stars in young Brenda's eyes. It was at that moment she day dreamed she was going to be a singer and actor someday. While a student at San Fernando High School, she co-founded the women's soccer team. She also directed, produced and acted in her first theatre production, a Spanish play that she had read in Spanish Lit. class. Banda suggested her teacher to produce it and when he said "Do it and I'll support you" she was forever transformed. In 2010, Banda co-founded a theatre company called the Urban Theatre Movement. At 18 years old she joined a Rock En Español band called Encrucijada where she fashioned her own version of wild Latina rockers Alejandra Guzman and Gloria Trevi. In 2014, at a friend's suggestion, Banda decided to become a theater coach. She is currently teaching artist with Inside Out Community Arts a program funded by P.S. ARTS, the only organization in South Los Angeles dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing arts education (dance, music, theater, and visual arts) to under-served public schools and communities. Other teaching contracts have included CNCA Camino Nuevo Burlington, B.R.I.D.G.E. Theatre Project (Spring 2020) and ENACT. She most recently worked on a Spanish Golden Age theatre pilot with UCLA and 24th Street Theatre that looks to bring Spain's Golden Age playwrights into elementary classrooms all over the United States. Brenda is also the co-founder of Urban Theatre Movement and serves as the company's creative director of Urban Legends, a yearly one acts theatre festival. Banda's last directing piece was Obscuridad, a play she wrote and was part of Urban Unrest at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017. Handball by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, another play she directed, was produced in LA in the fall of 2013 and then picked up to be presented at Summer Stage NYC 2014 in Central Park. A self-described late bloomer it wasn't until 2019 when she finally came to terms with her calling and decided to pursue a career in Hollywood. With little credits to her name she was determined to work her way up. Six weeks into her decision she booked a recurring role in the Netflix® Original Series Gentefied. Looking up to fellow actress Viola Davis for her strength, energetic weight and how she is able to owns her space, she also admires the fact Ms. Davis came into the scene at an older age. Banda wants to inspire adults who have dreams but feel life has passed them by. Awards include: Obscuridad nominated for Vanguard's Duende Award, winner Urban Unrest (2017), Encore Award through Sacred Fools and Best World Premiere through Rogue Machine Theatre Company. A firm believer that it is the duty and the burden of the immigrant child to succeed, Banda strives to keep working and learning and be able to take care of her mother for being the driving force behind her. Future projects include the release of Banda's fitness mini digital series Fit for A Queen and a Comic Book where she was the inspiration behind a super hero called Sophia Azul, The Blue Witch. Banda's first big break Gentefied is based on the digital series of the same title. It centers on three cousins who band together to keep their Grandfather's popular Boyle Heights taco shop in business as the neighborhood becomes more gentrified. An animal rights advocate, Banda calls herself a vegetarian with vegan goals. She attended Cerritos College and has studied at several institutes including Steppenwolf West and The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Brenda Banda is represented by Sixtos Talent, Momentum Talent and Literary Agency and Espada PR.
Brenda Barberena is an actress, known for Double Mommy (2016), General Hospital (1963) and Switched at Birth (2011).
Brenda Bauder is an actress, known for Project Blue Book (2019), Night Owl High (2015) and Computer Creed (2014).
Brenda Bazinet was born in Saskatchewan, Canada. She is an actress, known for Shoot the Messenger (2016), Goosebumps (1995) and Catwalk (1992).
Brenda Beck is known for The Legend of Ponnivala: Death and the Queen (2012), Gateway to Heaven (2012) and If (2003).
Brenda Benet, born Brenda Ann Nelson in Los Angeles, California, on August 14, 1945, was a classic example of the modern-day Hollywood tragedy. As a television actress with good dramatic scope, she managed to piece together a wide and impressive portfolio of guest shots in a career spanning just over 16 years before taking her life at the age of 36. She spent her childhood and early teenage years feeling awkward and self-conscious because her complexion was darker than those of her siblings. Because of this, she felt that she did not fit in with her family, and often fantasized about being adopted. Brenda attended UCLA for a brief time, majoring in languages. In 1962 she entered show business; her breakthrough role came in 1964 when she was selected to play the part of Jill McComb in The Young Marrieds (1964). After that came stints on various comedy and drama series in the '60s and '70s, usually playing ethnic, exotic types. She was probably best known for her role as the kind-hearted prostitute in Walking Tall (1973). During this time she married and divorced actor Paul Petersen. She began a relationship with Bill Bixby and moved in with him in 1969, and they married in 1971. By the late '70s, however, they were divorced. Brenda retired from the business in the mid-'70s to raise a family, and in late 1974 she gave birth to a boy, Christopher Sean Bixby. Tragically, Christopher died in 1981 during a winter ski vacation in California. It was believed that this and her divorce from Bixby were the events which caused Brenda's life to spin out of control. On April 7, 1982, Brenda went into the bathroom of her West Los Angeles home, lit and arranged some candles in a circle on the floor and lay down. She then placed a Colt .38-cal. revolver into her mouth and pulled the trigger. She died instantly.
Brenda Birkeland is a costume designer and actress, known for Obvious Child (2014), Pee Sitting Down (2017) and Textual Intercourse (2017).
After forty years of hard work on stage and both television and film, there are not many other actresses who deserved the success, recognition and stardom which Brenda Blethyn has now achieved. Born in 1946 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, she started her career at British Rail in the 1960s. Saving money during her time there, she took a risk and enrolled herself at the at The Guildford School of Acting in Guildford, Surrey, England and then left her British Rail years behind. Her risk had paid off, by the mid-1970s she was working on stage, eventually joining the National Theatre Company in 1975. It was the 1980s, however that saw Brenda move onto the small screen when she appeared in a BBC2 Playhouse presentation called BBC2 Playhouse: Grown-Ups (1980), playing the character Gloria. Other work in television quickly followed and this kept her working throughout the 1980s. She still remained relatively unknown with the viewing public during the 1980s, despite her consistent work and superb acting abilities. It was not until the dawn of the 90s that her career took off. In 1990, she played the supporting cast member role of Mrs Jenkins in film based on the Roald Dahl novel The Witches (1990), with Anjelica Huston, Jane Horrocks and Mai Zetterling. Film work now became the order of the day in the early 90s, appearing in both A River Runs Through It (1992) and the television film Screen One: The Bullion Boys (1993). It was then back to a TV series in 1994, with Outside Edge (1994), working on this production for its two-year run. It is without a doubt that 1997 will be remembered as her biggest year to date. She was cast by her old friend Mike Leigh in the film Secrets & Lies (1996) as Cynthia Rose Purley, opposite highly talented Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The film received storming reviews and Blethyn won a BAFTA Film Award and subsequently received an Academy Award nomination for her role, along with Jean-Baptiste. Although Brenda came home from the Oscars empty handed, her profile in Hollywood and Britain soared as a result of the nomination and her appearance on The 69th Annual Academy Awards (1997). Film roles then came thick and fast following Secrets & Lies (1996). Brenda was nothing short of superb in Little Voice (1998). A second Academy Award nomination followed but once again she was the bridesmaid rather than the bride at the Oscars. Since 1996, she has found a new home in film and she has worked consistently in the medium.