Vanessa Giordano is an award winning actress, writer and producer. She grew up in Massachusetts and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Manhattan, where she majored in Musical Theatre. She is an alumni of the Breakin' Through Acting Workshop in Los Angeles. Her first project as an actress/ producer, the series "The One Percent" became a YouTube Sensation and won her Best Actress at The LA Webfest 2012. Her second project as an actress/producer was "Nervosa", a drama about a girl with bulimia. "Nervosa" had its world premiere at the 2012 LA Femme Film Festival in Hollywood. Vanessa recently filmed, "5150", a feature film she co-wrote, co-produced and starred in. Vanessa is the founder of Stardust Films, a production company intended to produce films that are created by women. Vanessa is an avid animal lover and animal welfare supporter. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Sonny Marachino
Favorite song is Hoagy Carmichal's "Stardust". First song she ever sang on stage was the aria "Summertime" from the opera "Porgy and Bess". Born in Boston, Massachusetts. As a little girl, she would watch "The Wizard of Oz" 5 times a day. Played the lead in her 1st grade play "Everybody Eats Rice". Was the youngest Soprano of the "Neponset Chorale Society" in Boston. Is an animal rights supporter. Grandparents frequently took her to National Tours and concerts in Boston. She is Sicilian, Irish, Scottish, German and Hungarian. Is a painter. She knew she wanted to be an actress after seeing a production of "Annie Get Your Gun" with Marilu Henner in Boston. Is a vegan. Turned down admissions into Berklee College of Music and Emerson College to attend theatre school in New York City.
When Autumn, a bestselling novelist, sends her mentally unstable stepsister away on a "5150" involuntary mental health hold, her best friends rally around her. Two years, later her stepsister resurfaces with secrets to share about all of them and the line of sanity and insanity gets blurred.