Personal Info
Avis Marie Barnes
Avis-Marie Barnes
Acting
Biography
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 directo…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
F1
as Diner Waitress
My Mother the Madam
as Loretta Danielle
Pain Hustlers
as Principal
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
as Sabina
Girlfriendship
as Mrs. Williams
Looking in the Mirror
as Beatrice
Murder RX
Waves
as Doctor
The Dirt
as Officer
KNOCK KNOCK
TV Shows
The Waterfront
as Daphne · 1 ep.
Will Trent
as Theresa Rothwell · 1 ep.
The Summer I Turned Pretty
as Mrs. Evans · 1 ep.
Doom Patrol
as Beekeeper · 1 ep.
Lodge 49
9 ep.
The Quad
as Aunt Vida · 1 ep.
Stranger Things
as Elderly Woman · 1 ep.
Greenleaf
as Misty Williams · 19 ep.
Resurrection
as Sharon · 1 ep.
Sleepy Hollow
as Night Shift Nurse · 1 ep.