Morgana Ignis
{{Short description|American actress (born 1989)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Morgana Ignis
| image = Morgana Ignis by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption = Ignis in 2025
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1989|May|19}}
| birth_place = Northridge, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|writer|puppeteer}}
| years_active = 2010-present
| known_for = {{ubl|Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend|Stan Against Evil|Helluva Boss|Class Acts}}
}}
Morgana Gwendolyn Ignis (born May 19, 1989){{Cite Instagram|user=morganaignis|last=Ignis|first=Morgana|postid=C7KQQV9PLnP|title=It's my birthday and I am aging WELL. I truly feel in my prime 🔥|date=20 May 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20240522004055/https://www.instagram.com/p/C7KQQV9PLnP/|archive-date=22 May 2024|url-status=live|access-date=22 May 2024}} is an American actress and writer. She starred as Claire Atlas in the webseries Class Acts, as Fay in Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend, and voices Sallie May on the animated series Helluva Boss.
Early life
Morgana Gwendolyn Ignis was born on May 19, 1989. Ignis grew up in Los Angeles, California. Throughout her teen years, she spent her time working in her father's music studio.{{cite web |title=Meet Mick Morgana Ignis |url=https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-mick-morgana-ignis-burbank-la-actor/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191129133123/https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-mick-morgana-ignis-burbank-la-actor/ |archive-date=29 November 2019 |access-date=18 May 2024 |website=Voyage LA Magazine}} assisting at comic book shops, helping host and promote underground art shows and punk clubs, and touring the country performing characters on stage and selling merchandise for the band Stolen Babies. Morgana eventually pursued her acting ambitions further through improv and theater workshops.{{cite web |title=Morgana Ignis |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3190746/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |website=IMDB |publisher=Internet Movie Data Base |access-date=17 September 2024}}{{Cite web |last=Petunia |first=Becca |date=2023-06-05 |title=Pride Month Profiles: Morgana Ignis, Henson Puppeteer |url=https://toughpigs.com/pride-profiles-morgana-ignis-henson/ |access-date=2024-06-30 |website=ToughPigs |language=en-US}}
Career
She worked as a stop motion animator in shows like Robot Chicken and Moral Orel before studying acting and movement, which led to a career playing creatures and other inhuman characters in sci-fi and horror films, as well a professional cosplayer in conventions.
She starred as Severus Snape in the 2016 short fan film Severus Snape and the Marauders. She is also known for her work on the comedy horror show Stan Against Evil, where she plays multiple recurring characters.
Ignis began working at The Jim Henson Company after Kirk Thatcher brought her as the body performer in The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell for the werewolf Edgar and later on the Disney Plus series Earth to Ned co-puppeteering Ned. She came out professionally as trans fem during the production of Earth to Ned.
=''Helluva Boss'' and collaboration with Brandon Rogers=
Starting in 2021 she voiced the character Sallie May on the animated YouTube series Helluva Boss, while also being consulted on the character's transgender representation by the production team. Ignis explained that the character of Sallie May is one of her favorite characters she's ever played. She said that the development of Sallie May's appearance, relationship with her sister Millie and particularly the writing and storyline of the Ignis written short, Hell's Belles,{{cite AV media|people=Medrano, Vivienne (director)|date=27 April 2024|title=Helluva Shorts 1: Hell's Belles|language=en-US|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_38dtqdR5V4|access-date=18 May 2024|via=YouTube}} is an authentic and meaningful form of representation for her own life as a trans woman.{{cite AV media|people=Morgana Ignis |date=27 June 2024|title=Talkin' Sallie Pay and Helluva Boss!|language=en-US|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL6C3CB9FNc|access-date=16 September 2024|via=YouTube}}
She befriended Brandon Rogers through her work on Helluva Boss and they began working together on-camera for his Streamy Award Winning series Bryce,{{Cite Instagram|user=morganaignis|last=Ignis|first=Morgana|postid=Cuuu0ScPA3w|title=This Friday…the board will see you now 👠|date=15 July 2023|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/Cuuu0ScPA3w/|url-status=live|access-date=16 September 2024}} where Morgana played the character Florence. From there she worked with him on the choose your own adventure series You Broke the News{{Cite Instagram|user=morganaignis|last=Ignis|first=Morgana|postid=CyhZ1_ZxlHG|title=Back at it again with another brilliantly unhinged @brandonbored project!! I had so much fun with this talented group creating progressively more chaotic scenarios. There's a me in every path! I'm particularly proud of how our strange and unusual psychic Madame Marene came to life, a character Brandon really let me go wild with. 'You Broke The News' is now trending on YouTube, so give it a watch and help us make some headlines!|date=17 October 2023|https://www.instagram.com/p/CyhZ1_ZxlHG/|url-status=live|access-date=16 September 2024}} and then co-starred in the series Class Acts{{Cite Instagram|user=morganaignis|last=Ignis|first=Morgana|postid=C1Ki4jcvaWR|title=CLASS IS BACK IN SESSION…|date=22 December 2023|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C1Ki4jcvaWR/|url-status=live|access-date=16 September 2024}} as Claire Atlas.
She is currently the Head of Merchandise and Licensing for SpindleHorse Toons{{Cite web |title=Our Team |url=https://spindlehorse.com/team |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=SpindleHorse |language=en-US}}
Ignis co-stars in Abigail Thorn's short film Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend along with Brandon Rogers, who also stars in Helluva Boss.
Personal life
Ignis is a trans woman and lesbian.{{Cite Instagram|user=morganaignis|last=Ignis|first=Morgana|postid=DA4GqUDT69u|title=Happy International Lesbian Day, here's to creating more things for the fem gaze for the fem gays|date=8 October 2024|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DA4GqUDT69u/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=1|url-status=live|access-date=23 October 2024}} She came out as trans fem in 2009 and presented fluidly in her career until coming out professionally during the production of Earth to Ned.{{cite web|title=Creature Actor Morgana Ignis Walks Us Through The MOON GARDEN|url=https://www.fangoria.com/original/creature-actor-morgana-ignis-walks-us-through-the-moon-garden/|last=Corrigan|first=Kalyn|work=Fangoria|date=16 March 2024|orig-date=Original date 12 July 2023|access-date=21 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240124172750/https://www.fangoria.com/original/creature-actor-morgana-ignis-walks-us-through-the-moon-garden/|url-status=live|archive-date=24 Jan 2024}}
Filmography
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|nm3190746}}
- [https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Morgana-Ignis/ Morgana Ignis] at Behind the Voice Actors
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:American voice actresses
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from Los Angeles
Category:American transgender actresses
Category:Transgender women writers
Category:LGBTQ people from California