Rene Michelle Aranda

National award winning American actress, producer and casting director, Rene Michelle Aranda, is well known for her involvement with international distribution company Plus Entertainment and partnership with Hollywood TV Cops and Hollywood & Vine Talent Casting, as well as her blood relation to YouTube celebrity brother, Michael Aranda.She was born in Whittier, California on December 6, 1990 and raised in the billion-dollar "Powerball"-winning city of Chino Hills, California. She is multi-racial but primarily Spanish and Native American with heavy traces in Northern & Eastern Europe. She is an English speaker who dabbles in Spanish and Japanese.Ren's pursuit of an Entertainment Industry career began when she took her first theater class at Robert O. Townsend Junior High School at the age of 13. She graduated Ruben S. Ayala High School in 2009 with over a dozen awards from the school's drama department, including the first 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in the history of the school's program; It was founded in her honor.The Thespian Arts Theatre Festival she founded her senior year continues annually at the high school and inspired other departments campus-wide to celebrate talent shows of their own.In the Fall following her high school graduation, Ren moved to Los Angeles to attend a 3-year, audition-only conservatory called the LACC Theatre Academy. The Academy has other notable alumni including Morgan Freeman, Mark Hamill, Cindy Williams and Donna Reed. During Aranda's attendance there, she won national recognition and was presented with the "Outstanding Performance by an Actress" award at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for her role as Willie The Space Freak in a gender-bended adaptation of Sam Shepard's "The Unseen Hand". She was flown from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. for this honor in February of 2012. There were only two recipients of this first annual award, nationwide. She shaved her head bald for the role and was recognized for this in BuzzFeed Community article, "17 Trail-Blazing Bald Beauties In Hollywood", along with Persis Khambatta, Angelina Jolie-Pitt, Ellen Page and more.She founded her production company, Starpark Studios, in 2008 and made it an LLC in 2013. Her acting and producing work has been distributed by the likes of Lifetime, Ion, Syfy, Cinelatino, Netflix, Walmart, Redbox, Amazon, iTunes, YouTube and in movie theaters across the U.S. Show less «