Elissa Bello
Elissa Bello is known for Minority Report (2002), Mortal Kombat (1995) and Deja Vu (2006).
Elissa Cuellar
Elissa Cuellar is known for Secret Lies of the Gossip Teen (2020), 7Seeds (2019) and The Curse of Professor Zardonicus (2022).
Elissa Dowling
The desire to perform came early for Elissa Dowling, by age 8 she was dancing in the NYC Ballet Company's "The Nutcracker". At age 11 she was invited to tour with an improv troop where she gained valuable experience in the art of ad lib. By 13 she had already starred in stage productions including "Little Shop of Horrors" and had her television debut as the notorious lips singing the opening theme song from "Rocky Horror Picture Show". The transition from stage to screen has worked well for Elissa whose expansive acting range has already landed her unique and diverse movie roles such as a transvestite bartender, an attorney, a serial killer, even a gothic dominatrix from New York. Her skills as a character actress have afforded her film performances so intense that she is almost completely unrecognizable. Several of the films she has starred in have been lined up with Lions Gate distribution and she has also achieved a recognized body of work within the independent movie circuit.
Elissa Down
Elissa Down is a director and writer, known for Feel the Beat (2020), The Black Balloon (2008) and The Honor List (2018).
Elissa Kapneck
Elissa Kapneck (born on January 4th in Boca Raton, Florida) is an Emmy nominated actress. She is known for The Young and the Restless(1973), You Can't Take My Daughter(2020) and CAMP(2013). Elissa has been acting since age 3. When she turned 5, she started working professionally on various modeling and print ads, ranging from "Sears" to "Vogue Bambini". She made quite a name for herself in the Miami, Florida commercial market, booking major spots all across the globe. Elissa earned her degree in Acting and took a Minor in Film at the University of Central Florida's Theatre Conservatory; an elite program accepting only 12 students annually. While studying, she worked on projects throughout Florida but upon graduation, she moved to Los Angeles, California. She then became known for her role as counselor "Lacee" in the movie "CAMP", based on the true story of abused children and Royal Family Kids Camp. Elissa later became involved in the cause and donated all her earnings to the charity. In 2019, she made her LifeTime debut as "Ashley" the bubbly attorney in "You Can't Take My Daughter", also based on a ripped from the headlines true story, starring Kirstie Alley and Lyndsy Fonseca. Elissa's role as "Sasha" on "The Young and the Restless" earned her a 2020 Daytime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Guest Performer in a drama series.
Elissa Knight
Elissa Knight was born on April 15, 1975 in Santa Cruz, California, USA. She is known for WALL·E (2008), Cars (2006) and Inside Out (2015).
Elissa Lansdell
Elissa Lansdell is an actress and writer, known for Nikita (2010), Flashpoint (2008) and The Border (2008). She was previously married to Keech Rainwater.
Elissa Lynn Sanders
Elissa Lynn Sanders is known for Klippers (2018).
Elissa Middleton
On film, Elissa will be seen as Jeannie Berlin's daughter in Harry Greenberger's upcoming feature, Faraway Eyes. Recent theater roles include Queen Emer in W. B. Yeats' The Only Jealousy of Emer, directed by Dublin's Ray Yeates; the Baroness in the US premiere of Lermontov's Masquerade, performed with a 50-piece orchestra at St Ann's in Brooklyn; Helene Marais Rosenthal in James Bosley's Broad Channel; and the lead in the world premiere of Meredith Anthony's Murder on the Main Line at Manhattan Repertory Theater, which Elissa also directed. Her husband Clark directed her and the great Matthew Cowles in Craig Lucas' Reckless; and she performed and produced William Leavengood's one-woman play Special, about autism, at Theatre Row. Ms Middleton and Tony Torn are working on a production of Harold Pinter's Ashes to Ashes, which Torn will direct. In New York, Elissa studied with William Esper, Austin Pendelton, and Jon Shear, among others. She completed Shane Ann Younts' two-year course in Voice, Diction and Shakespeare. Elissa speaks 5 languages with impressive fluency; did her BA in Political Philosophy and Art History at Reed College; and an MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence. Her book Spirit & Time, about Jazz drummers, was recently published by Blue Note Records as part of their box set, The Blue Note Review, whose magazine, Out of the Blue, Elissa edits. Her interview with drummers Victor Lewis and Billy Hart about Tony Williams also appears in the magazine.
Elissa Piszel
Elissa Piszel was born German, Hungarian and Polish in the small town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She fell in love with the stage at the age of 3 as a ballet dancer performing in the Nutcracker. Elissa continued on to perform all throughout her younger years into high school in Summer theater and Regional theater. Granting her a scholarship into college at NYU Tisch school of the Arts at the Lee Strasberg Institute. Elissa booked a lead role in a feature film with director Darren Stein (Jawbreaker), so she took a leave of absence from college and continued to study at the New Actors Workshop with Mike Nichols, Paul Sills and George Morrison. Two years later Elissa started her own theater company and started producing her own theater on Theater Row. She continues to produce awarded theater and film. Feature film "In The Moon's Shadow", which she stars in and produces, is now in distribution with Green Apple Entertainment. Elissa is a proud member of New York Women of Film and Television. She continues to teach young children improvisational movement and acting and resides in Manhattan.
