Evlin Lake

Evlin is a California native who spent her early years growing up near Big Bear and the beaches of Southern California. She is a human and animal rights activist. As a child, she felt a strong desire to help the voiceless. In her younger years, she drove to L.A. everyday after school to feed homeless, men, woman and children on the streets of skid row; A self-taught student of conversational Mandarin at age 17, before moving to Taiwan; Traveled extensively throughout Asia and volunteered her time to orphanages in China; After returning to Southern California, she continued her involvement with feeding the homeless in Downtown L.A. and joined the Los Angeles Homeless coalition, raising money for a new homeless shelter for women and children.Began taking extensive acting and film classes, studying multiple techniques taught by a variety of L.A. instructors; Attended film school regularly for 7 1/2 years; played in several stage roles before auditioning for first film role; Has since landed featured, supporting, and lead roles in a variety of projects; Featured on "MAD TV" (2003); Made her film debut in "Bob Steel" (2004); earned a starring role as the deeply troubled Monica in the features "AmerAsian"(2006) and "Feral"(2010), roles that challenged her to repeatedly sustain heightened levels of emotion, dramatically exercising and broadening her artistic range; Wrote, produced, directed, and edited her first commercial for a L.A. radio station(2006).Began writing screenplays(2006). Optioned (2010), however production fell through, discouraging Evlin, until friends encouraged her to submit in Screenplay Competitions; Chosen out of thousands to have the first ten pages of her screenplay read by a top Producer at the Austin Film Festival Screenwriter Roundtable, resulting in the Producer asking Evlin to find a WGA agent to send her chosen screenplay (2012). Continues to pursue acting while writing feature screenplays (2013). Show less «