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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.

The Dirt
as Officer

My Mother the Madam
as Loretta Danielle

F1
as Diner Waitress

The Waterfront
as Daphne

Pain Hustlers
as Principal

R.A.D.A.R.: The Adventures of the Bionic Dog
as Ethel

Will Trent
as Theresa Rothwell

Girlfriendship
as Mrs. Williams

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
as Sabina

The Summer I Turned Pretty
as Mrs. Evans

Looking in the Mirror
as Beatrice

Murder RX

Waves
as Doctor

Doom Patrol
as Beekeeper

KNOCK KNOCK

Lodge 49

The Quad
as Aunt Vida

Stranger Things
as Elderly Woman

Greenleaf
as Misty Williams

Resurrection
as Sharon

The Breaking Point
as Jackie

Sleepy Hollow
as Night Shift Nurse

Cassadaga
as Susan

The Glades
as Minnie

Burn Notice
as Judy

Army Wives
as Nurse Karen

One Tree Hill
as Marion

Jeepers Creepers
as Officer Natasha Weston

Sheena
as Doctor

Chapter Zero
as Doctor

Dawson's Creek
as Counselor

Catherine's Grove
as Malatasia

Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School Bus #17
as Detective Grantham

Kenan & Kel
as Nurse Manly

Illtown
as Officer Bright

Saved By The Light
as Attending Nurse

seaQuest DSV
as Female Hauler