Angela Shelton is rebel with a cause. She’s an award-winning filmmaker, writer, actress and activist. Angela has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, 48 Hours, NPR, Lifetime Television for Women and the cover of the New York Times. She’s authentically sassy and creates projects and products to inspire people to move forward and live better lives.

You may have seen her documentary Searching for Angela Shelton.  Due to the huge following and movement the movie created, the Angela Shelton Foundation was formed and now runs the Survivor Manual.

You can read testimonials here.

Filmmaker

After booking the lead role in Gavin O’Connor’s first film, “Comfortably Numb”, Angela teamed up with Gavin and they adapted Angela’s first novel into the film Tumbleweeds.
The film won the filmmaker’s trophy at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and brought the lead actress, Janet McTeer, an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win.

Angela began writing screen and teleplays and received outstanding reviews for my adaptation of Kaye Gibbon’s novel Charms for the Easy Life for Showtime starring Gena Rowlands and Mimi Rogers.

Angela made her directing debut by traveling America interviewing other Angela Sheltons in an effort to survey random women. The multi-award winning film SEARCHING FOR ANGELA SHELTON surprised her and the world when it put a spotlight on sexual abuse and domestic violence and started a grassroots movement of healing for abuse survivors worldwide. Angela became a hero among women and has spoken to Congress, universities, military bases, high schools, elementary schools, community centers, conferences and seminars. The Justice Department presented me with a certificate of appreciation for her work on behalf of crime victims. The mayor of Asheville, NC made April 29th Angela Shelton Day in honor of all abuse survivors.

You can get the documentary on Amazon!

HILLHOPPER PRODUCTIONS presents SEARCHING FOR ANGELA SHELTON produced by ANGELA SHELTON and CHRISTOPHTER GALLO original score by MATTHEW KELLY, FRANK KOROSHEC and JAMIE SEYBERTH of THE AUTUMNS director of photography and still photographs CHRISTOPTHER GALLO sound GIOVANNI DI SIMONE executive producers MARCUS ALLEN, TUDOR BOLONI, JAMIE KENNEDY and HEIDI SCHANZ written, directed and edited by ANGELA SHELTON. All rights reserved. Copyright 2001 Searching for Angela Shelton.

Visit www.searchingforangelashelton.com for more information about the movie and the movement.

Acting

View Angela on LA Casting: http://www.lacasting.com/angelashelton

View Angela on Actor’s Access: http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/angelashelton

View Angela on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791296/

Angela first began acting at eight when she was a mime at the local mall. She went on to do community theater and in her teens played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. She then went into the more lucrative career of modeling and focused on her writing during her down time. She landed the lead role of Meadow Adare in Gavin O’Connor’s first film, Comfortably Numb and moved to Los Angeles in 1996 and booked a pilot every year that she auditioned. She was in TNT’s BIG TIME, Fox’s ELIE’S THEORY, and the TV version of SWINGERS called HOLLYWOOD TALES. She also appeared in guest star roles in BECKER, CHICAGO HOPE, PACIFIC BLUE and SILK STALKINGS. She got to work with Richard Benjamin when she did her first comedy role for the big screen in THE SHRINK IS IN outside of a guest star on HBO’s comedy show HARDCORE TV – which was a comedy show like Mad TV.

Videos and Acting Reels

Here’s Angela’s Acting Reel:

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Here’s Angela’s Commercial Reel:

Angela’s favorite role was in AIR GUITAR NATION! As a COMEDIAN she has been a regular on the Free Speech Show and Comedy Nation. She has also appeared at the Comedy Store.

When Angela booked the role as SAFE SIDE SUPERCHICK in the Safe Side Video Series, she was elated to do physical comedy, her own stunts, and get to play so many characters.

“I have a role that just came in that is perfect for you. I can’t think of anyone better to play this. You are just crazy enough to pull this off.” John Papsidera, casting director

Watch Angela as Safe Side Superchick:

Training and Skills

Larry Moss – scene study
Jean-Louis Rodrigue – Alexander Technique
Richard Balin – Singing and Voice
Improv Olympic – Improv
The Groundlings – Improv
Sally Johnson – Meisner
Melissa Skoff – Scene Study
Louis Van Bergen – Scene Study
Santa Monica City College – Technique
Greenville Theatre Group – Mime

SPECIAL SKILLS: driving, dancing, writing, improv, fearlessness, fighting, aerial dancing

Angela was the lead in the film Daysleeper. The movie is about a young girl who has narcolepsy and when she falls asleep she sees children who are being abused and finds clues about how to save them. Angela plays her mother who does not believe her until the end of the film when she realizes that her daughter has a beautiful gift. Director Daniel Dimarco and producer Gaalan Engen talk about how it was to work with Angela in the below video:

Modeling

Angela began modeling after her mother had her astrology chart done and the reading said that a career in modeling would be very lucrative. Angela’s first modeling job was in Seventeen Magazine and the reading proved to be true when she moved to New York City and began modeling for Bill Blass. She moved to Paris when she was 19 and traveled around Europe modeling. She spent a lot of time in Milan, Italy where she worked for designers like Giorgio Armani and graced the pages of many Italian fashion magazines. Upon returning to New York from Europe , for years she worked for major catalogs from Bloomingdales to Macys until moving to Los Angeles in 1996 to pursue an acting career.

Author

Ellen Bass, author of Courage to Heal, says, “Though she takes on serious issues, Angela Shelton is joyous, irreverent, funny, and feisty.”

Finding Angela Shelton moves through Angela’s life story, dreams, fears and journals as she searched for women in America who share her name. She started out surveying women in America and they ended up saving her life.  Finding Angela Shelton is mandatory reading in many Women’s Studies programs around the US.

To help bring Angela to your community, contact events@angelashelton.com

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