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Angela Featherstone

ActorBorn April 3, 1965 (60 years)
Angela Eileen Featherstone (born 3 April 1965) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, and advocate for children in foster care. She was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. Within a year of emancipating herself from foster care at age 17, Featherstone became Canada's top model when her September Flare magazine cover broke all previous records for sales. She quickly expanded upon her success and left for New York, where she signed with the illustrious Click models and later would be one of the first models signed to Next. She would travel the world in the 80s as a top fashion model.

For acting, she downplayed her striking features to play unlikely roles, emerging as a versatile actress. She is best known for playing the Maid on Seinfeld, Chloe in Friends, and Robbie's fiancée Linda in The Wedding Singer. Most recently, she played the role of Maggie on Showtime's Ray Donovan and Jame on HBO's Girls. Featherstone has created sitcoms for Sony, DreamWorks, and NBC television and has written nonfiction for Time, Jane, Flare, Huffington Post, Dame, and Zoomer. Her essay about childhood trauma, "God Said No", was published in the 2014 edition of Gargoyle magazine and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In 2021, she published the essay "Forgiveness" in Dame magazine. An alumnus of UCLA Extension Writer's Program "Personal Essay & Memoir," she is completing her memoir. In 2022, Featherstone began directing with her debut seven-minute film, L'Étranger. As a director, she combines into a movement of aesthetic bliss her years of experience in fashion as a model, working with important photographers and magazines (such as Italian, French, and American Vogue; Mademoiselle; Seventeen; Sassy; Harper's Bazaar Italia; Grazia; Harpers & Queens; Albert Watson; Bruce Weber; & Irving Penn), her love of cinema and decades in the film industry, a refined sense of story as an oft published essayist, her passion for philosophy, and a love of creating safe spaces for collaboration. Featherstone, a committed advocate for children in foster care, volunteered with the Children's Action Network, curating their Heart Gallery from 2011 to 2019, and served on their Winter Wonderland committee in 2014 and 2015. She also mentored a child in foster care through Kidsave from 2011 to 2020. She has described suffering physical, emotional, and sexual abuse when she herself was a foster child. In 2021, she founded the nonprofit healing school for youth aging out of foster care, Fosteringcare.org. Through this trauma-healing intensive and healing-trade program, she and the founding board members hope to impact the brutal statistics for this extraordinarily vulnerable demographic. In 2014, she lectured at the ICAN Nexus Conference on Violence Within the Home and its Effects on Children. She continues to lecture and write about healing PTSD, child abuse, human trafficking, and intimacy. Her 2015 essay on child sex trafficking for DAME was picked up by Salon.com and MSN and was read by over seven million viewers. Since 2009, she has studied moral and spiritual psychology with Rabbi Mordecai Finley, Ph.D. She served as a consultant on Cracked Up, a Netflix documentary about the effects and healing of trauma

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • What Doesn't Kill You
  • The Kids in the Hall
  • Soul Survivors
  • Illtown

Known For

  • The Wedding Singer
  • Takedown
  • 200 Cigarettes
  • Zero Effect
  • Soul Survivors
  • What Doesn't Kill You
  • Dark Angel: The Ascent
  • The Guilty
  • Skipped Parts
  • Family of Cops
  • Beneath the Dark
  • Federal Protection
  • Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
  • Caved In
  • Pressure
  • One Way Out
  • Ivans xtc.
  • Exes & Ohs
  • Illtown
  • Cracker (US)
  • Reeseville
  • My Dead Boyfriend
  • Carnage Collection: Forbidden Freaks

Filmography

2023
Carnage Collection: Forbidden Freaks · as Veronica (archive Footage)
2016
My Dead Boyfriend · as Norma
2013
Ray Donovan (TV Series) · as Mental Patient
2012
Girls (TV Series) · as Jame
2010
Beneath the Dark · as Sandy
2010
Huge (TV Series) · as Teal
2009
The Soloist · as Commuter #1
2008
2008
The Mentalist (TV Series) · as Rocket
2007
Exes & Ohs (TV Series) · as Kris
2006
Love Hollywood Style · as Cathy Sherman
2006
Caved In · as Samantha Palmer
2004
Tomb of Terror · as Veronica
2003
Reeseville · as Judith Meyers
2003
L.A. Dragnet (TV Series) · as Amy Halsted
2002
The Twilight Zone (2002) (TV Series) · as Kate Graham
2002
One Way Out · as Gwen Buckley
2002
Federal Protection · as Leigh Kirkindall
2002
Pressure · as Amber
2001
The Guardian (TV Series) · as Suzanne Pell
2001
2000
Ivans xtc. · as Amanda Hill
2000
Skipped Parts · as Delores
2000
The Guilty · as Tanya Duncan
2000
Takedown · as Julia
1999
Jack & Jill (TV Series)
1999
200 Cigarettes · as Caitlyn
1999
Providence (TV Series) · as Andi Paulsen
1998
The Wedding Singer · as Linda
1998
Zero Effect · as Jess
1997
Cracker (US) (TV Series) · as Detective Hannah Tyler
1997
Con Air · as Ginny
1997
1996
Illtown · as Lilly
1995
The Pompatus of Love · as Times Square Kisser
1995
Family of Cops · as Jackie Fein
1995
The Wright Verdicts (TV Series) · as Michelle Farnon
1994
Friends (TV Series) · as Chloe
1994
New York Undercover (TV Series) · as Angela Mancini
1994
Dark Angel: The Ascent · as Veronica
1992
Army of Darkness · as Girl In S-Mart (uncredited)
1990
Northern Exposure (TV Series) · as Carla
1989
Seinfeld (TV Series) · as Cindy
1988
The Kids in the Hall (TV Series) · as Strip Club On-Looker
1988
Frantic · as Extra (uncredited)

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