Deborah Twiss
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Deborah Twiss
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|12|22}}
| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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| website = {{URL|deborahtwissactress.com|DeborahTwissActress.com}}
| height = 5 ft 8 in
| occupation = Actress, screenwriter, film director, producer
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Deborah Twiss (born December 22, 1971) is an American actress, screenwriter, film director and producer with roles in films and television shows such as Kick-Ass, Gravity, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and White Collar.{{cite web | url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/214641/Deborah-Twiss | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130080538/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/214641/Deborah-Twiss | url-status=dead | archive-date=2013-01-30 | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=The New York Times | title=Deborah Twiss}}{{cite web | work=Filmmaker Magazine | title=5 Questions for Sebastien's Deborah Twiss | author=Scott Macaulay | date=January 9, 2013 | url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/61917-5-questions-for-sebastiens-deborah-twiss/}}
Career
Twiss has been cast in a series of lead and supporting roles in several independent films including Molotov Samba.
Twiss later appeared in TV shows including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, White Collar, and Gravity as well as feature films such as In Between. She has two children, Matthew and Sydney McCann, who played characters based on them in her film A Cry From Within, inspired by experiences they had as a family.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/qa-deborah-twiss-talks-a-cry-from-within-and-her-true-haunting/ |title=Q&A: Deborah Twiss Talks "A CRY FROM WITHIN" and Her True Haunting |access-date=March 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321035747/http://www.fangoria.com/new/qa-deborah-twiss-talks-a-cry-from-within-and-her-true-haunting/ |archive-date=March 21, 2015 |url-status=dead }}
In the film Kick-Ass, she portrayed the mock superhero's teacher-crush, Mrs. Zane. Post Kick-Ass, Twiss appeared in the Michael Chiklis-produced Pawn and in A.D. Calvo's The Midnight Game, and appeared opposite Eric Roberts in A Cry From Within, which wrapped principal photography in spring 2014. She has also appeared in The Networker opposite Sean Young and William Forsythe.{{cite web | url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/83714/cry-within-unleashes-terror/ | title=A Cry From Within Unleashes Terror | first=Steve | last=Barton | publisher=DreadCentral.com | date=December 30, 2014 | access-date=September 26, 2016}}
Tapping her independent film experience, Twiss is developing several projects in which she will play lead roles including Just In Time, Parallel Veins, the horror comedy film Bloody Ultimatum, and a revenge horror film Contract With A Demon. She wrote and co-directed 2014 the Horror mystery thriller film A Cry from Within, which was co-directed with Zach Miller.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/exclusive-clip-gun-for-jennifer-creators-new-film-a-cry-from-within/ |title=Deborah Twiss, writer/producer/star of the cult vigilante shocker A GUN FOR JENNIFER, is back with the supernatural thriller A CRY FROM WITHIN |access-date=March 2, 2015 |archive-date=March 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312010726/http://www.fangoria.com/new/exclusive-clip-gun-for-jennifer-creators-new-film-a-cry-from-within/ |url-status=dead }}
Filmography
=Film=
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| Year
! Film ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | A Gun for Jennifer | Jennifer/Allison | |
| 2002 | Living with the Dead | Sophia McLean | |
| 2005 | Audrey keiko azuma | Audrey 2 | |
| 2005 | Molotov Samba | Dominique | |
| 2005 | Love Thy Neighbor | Female Porn Star | |
| 2005 | In Between | Allison | |
| 2009 | The Little Magician | The Mother | |
| 2010 | Kick-Ass | Mrs. Zane | |
| 2010 | The Aristofrogs | ||
| 2011 | Choose | Terri Connelley | |
| 2011 | Turbine | Lisa | |
| 2011 | School of Rock: Zombie Etiquette | Sally O'Niel | |
| 2011 | After Fall, Winter | Caroline | |
| 2012 | One Last Time | Tueta | |
| 2012 | Sunburn | Natalie | |
| 2013 | The Midnight Game | Noreen-Kaitlan's Mom | |
| 2013 | Uncomfortable Silence | The Wife | |
| 2013 | Pawn | Mrs. Davenport | |
| 2013 | November Lies | Nikki Evans | |
| 2014 | A Cry From Within | Cecile | |
| 2014 | The Last Taxi Driver | Sibyl | |
| 2014 | Act, Naturally | Miz Mashmeyer | |
| 2014 | Fifteen For The Angels | Casshandra | |
| 2015 | The Networker | Nicole | |
| 2015 | Confidence Game | Jessica |
=Television=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Dr. Lane | 1 episode: “Purgatory” S7E11 |
| 2009 | Fringe | ER Nurse | 1 episode: “There's More Than One of Everything” S1E20 |
| 2010 | White Collar | Kathy | 1 episode: "Front Man" S1E13 |
| 2010 | As the World Turns | Angela | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Gravity | Dr. Joyce Allen | 1 episode: "Cold Swim Away" S1E3 |
| 2011 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Pilot | 1 episode: "Flight" S12E15 |
| 2017 | The Deuce | Mindy | 1 episode: "Au Reservoir" S1E7 |
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.deborahtwiss.com}}
- {{IMDb name|0878597}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Film producers from Pennsylvania
Category:Screenwriters from Pennsylvania
Category:American women screenwriters
Category:Actresses from Philadelphia
Category:Writers from Philadelphia
Category:Film directors from Pennsylvania