Rene Michelle Aranda
Born
6 December 1990 (35)
Place of Birth
Whittier, California, USA
Also known as
Rene Aranda, Ren Aranda
Biography
Rene Michelle Aranda, sometimes credited as Ren Aranda, is a multi-award winning, American actress and international producer. Ren's career pursuits began at the age of 13, when she attended her first theater class at Robert O. Townsend Junior High School. She graduated Ruben S. Ayala High School in 2009 with over a dozen awards from the school's drama department, including "Most Inspirational" two years in a row and the first 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in the history of the school's program,...
Rene Michelle Aranda, sometimes credited as Ren Aranda, is a multi-award winning, American actress and international producer. Ren's career pursuits began at the age of 13, when she attended her first theater class at Robert O. Townsend Junior High School. She graduated Ruben S. Ayala High School in 2009 with over a dozen awards from the school's drama department, including "Most Inspirational" two years in a row and the first 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in the history of the school's program, founded in her honor. The Thespian Arts Theatre Festival she founded her senior year continues, annually to this date, at her alma matter and inspired other departments, campus-wide, to celebrate talent shows of their own. In the fall following her high school graduation, Ren moved to Los Angeles to attend the 3-year, audition-only conservatory, The LACC Theatre Academy. The Academy alumni includes Morgan Freeman, Mark Hamill, Cindy Williams and Donna Reed. During Aranda's attendance there, she won national recognition when presented with the "Outstanding Performance by an Actress" Award at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for her role as "Willie The Space Freak" in a gender-bended adaptation of Sam Shepard's, "The Unseen Hand". She was flown from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. to be honored February of 2012. There were only two recipients of this first annual award, nationwide. She shaved her head for the role and was credited for this in BuzzFeed Community article, "17 Trail-Blazing Bald Beauties In Hollywood", listed among the likes of Persis Khambatta, Angelina Jolie-Pitt, Natalie Portman, Elliot Page and more. Aranda gained furhter notability in the Entertainment Industry early in her movie career for her producer role in five back-to-back feature films under Plus Entertainment, commissioned for Spanish Television Network, Cinelatino, in 2014. During production, a partnership with Hollywood TV Cops and Hollywood & Vine Talent Casting developed, out of which she landed her most notable roles across feature films, music videos and television shows. She founded her production company, Starpark Studios, in 2008 and made it LLC in 2013. Her acting and producing work has been distributed by the likes of Lifetime, Ion, Syfy, Starz, Discovery, Cinelatino, Netflix, Walmart, Redbox, Amazon, iTunes, YouTube and in movie theaters across the U.S.
Filmography (22)
The Demon Detective
2025
Night Mistress
2025
Upon Waking
2024
The Assistant
2023
Emily or Oscar
2022
Blursday
2021
Happy Horror Days
2020
Dusters
2020
Intolerance: No More
2020
Mommy Is a Murderer
2020
Boris and the Bomb
2019
Debbie & Doug Drop Acid in the Desert
2019
Searching
2018
Papa
2018
Christmas with the Andersons
2016
Shadows of the Dead
2016
2 Lava 2 Lantula!
2016
Faraar
2015
Expelled
2014
It's Dark Here
2013
Smile Now, Cry Later
2013
Christmas Party Massacre