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Avis-Marie Barnes
ActorBorn November 2, 1958 (66 years)
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.
Filmography
| 2025 | What We Hide · as Mrs. Randolph |
| 2025 | F1: The Movie · as Diner Waitress |
| 2025 | The Waterfront (TV Series) · as Daphne |
| 2025 | Diddy on Trial: As It Happened (TV Series) · as Regina Ventura |
| 2023 | Pain Hustlers · as Principal |
| 2023 | R.A.D.A.R.: The Adventures of the Bionic Dog · as Ethel |
| 2023 | Will Trent (TV Series) · as Theresa Rothwell |
| 2022 | Girlfriendship · as Mrs. Williams |
| 2022 | Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. · as Sabina |
| 2022 | The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey (TV Series) · as Matrice |
| 2020 | |
| 2019 | Waves · as Doctor |
| 2019 | The Dirt · as Officer |
| 2019 | Looking in the Mirror · as Beatrice |
| 2019 | Doom Patrol (TV Series) · as Beekeeper |
| 2018 | The Purge (TV Series) · as Professor Adams |
| 2018 | Lodge 49 (TV Series) |
| 2017 | The Quad (TV Series) · as Aunt Vida |
| 2017 | SIX (TV Series) · as Virginia Chase |
| 2016 | Max Steel · as Ms. Bernardo |
| 2016 | Atlanta (TV Series) · as Loretta |
| 2016 | Stranger Things (TV Series) · as Elderly Woman |
| 2016 | Greenleaf (TV Series) · as Misty Williams |
| 2016 | Outcast (TV Series) · as Nurse |
| 2016 | Confirmation · as Emma Coleman Jordan |
| 2016 | Before I Wake · as Home Director |
| 2015 | Bloodline (TV Series) · as Marcia |
| 2014 | Satisfaction (2014) (TV Series) · as Tanya |
| 2014 | The Breaking Point · as Jackie |
| 2013 | Sleepy Hollow (TV Series) · as Night Shift Nurse |
| 2013 | Graceland (TV Series) · as Lieutenant |
| 2013 | Resurrection (TV Series) · as Sharon |
| 2012 | Revolution (TV Series) · as Beth |
| 2011 | Cassadaga · as Susan |
| 2010 | The Glades (TV Series) · as Minnie |
| 2010 | Treme (TV Series) · as Edna |
| 2010 | The Wronged Man · as Rhonda |
| 2008 | The Price · as Tanisha |
| 2007 | Burn Notice (TV Series) · as Judy |
| 2007 | Army Wives (TV Series) · as Faith Moyer |
| 2003 | One Tree Hill (TV Series) · as Marion |
| 2001 | Jeepers Creepers · as Officer Natasha Weston |
| 2000 | Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (2000) (TV Series) · as Doctor |
| 2000 | Noah Knows Best (TV Series) · as Ms. Williams |
| 1999 | Chapter Zero · as Doctor |
| 1998 | Dawson's Creek (TV Series) · as Counselor |
| 1997 | The Lay of the Land · as Avis |
| 1997 | Catherine's Grove · as Malatasia |
| 1996 | Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School Bus #17 · as Detective Grantham |
| 1996 | Kenan & Kel (TV Series) · as Nurse Manly |
| 1996 | |
| 1996 | Our Son, the Matchmaker · as Mary Anne |
| 1995 | Saved by the Light · as Attending Nurse |
| 1994 | My Brother and Me (TV Series) · as Mrs. Wilburn |
| 1994 | All That (TV Series) · as Mrs. Blatis |
| 1993 | seaQuest DSV (TV Series) · as Female Hauler |
| 1988 | America's Most Wanted (TV Series) · as Nurse |