Tanna Marie Frederick (born 1979) is a stage and independent film
actress who rose to prominence for her title role in Henry Jaglom's
Hollywood Dreams, for which she received the Best Actress Award at the
2008 Fargo Film Festival.Tanna Frederick was born in Mason City, Iowa,
where her father David Frederick was a pharmacist and her mother Nancy
Frederick was a nursing instructor. She attended school in Mason City,
and by fourth grade had begun to play in productions of that town's
Stebens' Children's Theatre. As she would later put it, she had "been
doing five shows a year for most of [her] life."Following her
graduation from Mason City High School in 1995, Frederick attended
college at the University of Iowa where she double majored in theater
and political science. She was a regular on Iowa City stages appearing
at the Riverside Theatre as "Jill" in Jack and Jill, and at the
University Theatre in a one-woman play that she had written herself
and titled Questioning Jabe. She would later recall that while at
college she particularly enjoyed working with younger playwrights on
new works, and that the programs of the university's Iowa Writer's
Workshop were formative in giving her an open mind towards "strange,
independent and unusual projects."Frederick graduated in 1999 as
valedictorian of her University of Iowa liberal arts class, and
shortly thereafter moved to Los Angeles to follow what the actress has
termed her "Joan of Arc calling" which happened at the age of 7.
actress who rose to prominence for her title role in Henry Jaglom's
Hollywood Dreams, for which she received the Best Actress Award at the
2008 Fargo Film Festival.Tanna Frederick was born in Mason City, Iowa,
where her father David Frederick was a pharmacist and her mother Nancy
Frederick was a nursing instructor. She attended school in Mason City,
and by fourth grade had begun to play in productions of that town's
Stebens' Children's Theatre. As she would later put it, she had "been
doing five shows a year for most of [her] life."Following her
graduation from Mason City High School in 1995, Frederick attended
college at the University of Iowa where she double majored in theater
and political science. She was a regular on Iowa City stages appearing
at the Riverside Theatre as "Jill" in Jack and Jill, and at the
University Theatre in a one-woman play that she had written herself
and titled Questioning Jabe. She would later recall that while at
college she particularly enjoyed working with younger playwrights on
new works, and that the programs of the university's Iowa Writer's
Workshop were formative in giving her an open mind towards "strange,
independent and unusual projects."Frederick graduated in 1999 as
valedictorian of her University of Iowa liberal arts class, and
shortly thereafter moved to Los Angeles to follow what the actress has
termed her "Joan of Arc calling" which happened at the age of 7.
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