Karen Grosso

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Big Update: I just wanted to share the great news with everyone in that I landed a lead role in a Farrelly Brothers film,T for Terrorists, and we start shooting at the end of this month.
I can be seen in the upcoming short Speed Mating.  Check out the trailer.
The short film Fine Line Between Cute and Creepy has been submitted to the Academy and is being considered for their short film category.

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The last couple of years have been very busy for Karen. Most recently, she is featured in the upcoming Steven Soderbergh feature, "Full Frontal," starring Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt. She can also be seen as the lead (opposite Michael Bergin) in the award winning comedy short, "The Fine Line Between Cute and Creepy," which has played to rave reviews at The Seattle and Palm Beach International Film Festivals and won "Best of the Fest" at the Rochester International Film Festival. Additionally, she stars in festival winner "Up Against Amanda" (www.UpAgainstAmanda.com) with Justine Priestley and David DeWitt.
The film is in negotiations with HBO, is currently being distributed by Concorde-New Horizons and is available in video stores worldwide. She's also getting a lot of attention in ifilm.com's festival-winner "Innocent" (Billy Maddox, Jose Yenque) and "A Love Letter To Steve McQueen" (www.MeanTimeProd.com)
On television, Karen can be seen hosting (and writing/producing) "SC Magazine" on Fox Sports West and in numerous commercials, including Christopher Guest's "Dockers-Little Black Dresses" national Super Bowl spot. TV pilots include a series regular role on "Battlestar Galactica-The Return."

Other festival winners include starring roles in John Axelson's "Opossum de Oro" and Michael Winnick's "The Fight," a cult classic in which she played nine characters, and a supporting role in Bobby Sheehan's "Seed."

A philanthropist at heart, one of her proudest accomplishments is a documentary film for Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times, a camp for children with cancer. She produced, directed and hosted this amazing inside look at these remarkable children.
Karen has built her own in-house production studio and has many projects in the works. She wrote, produced and starred in "Tickled Pink," a sexy comedy short, and produced "Not Too Tart, Not Too Sweet" in which she co-starred with Wendy Braun (Mervyn’s spokesperson, "Evolution")
as two young moms gone out of control.
An accomplished athlete, Karen has a high tolerance for adrenaline. Water sports, rock climbing, precision driving and gymnastics are among her favorite activities. She loves doing her own stunts (ex. "A Love Letter To Steve McQueen," Not Too Tart, Not Too Sweet," and "Opossum de Oro"), and stunt doubled Yasmine Bleeth's water skiing in "Crowned and Dangerous."
Karen is a theatre-trained East Coaster and a graduate of Fordham University in New York City with a major in Business and a concentration in Theater. Being a world travel-adventurer, she has attended the Drama Studio London conservatory school, lived for a short stint in Paris, studied art and history while traveling throughout Western and Eastern Europe and the Middle East and recently returned from five weeks in India where she was a Peace Ambassador representing Los Angeles and the film industry.
FILM: Full Frontal Supporting Steven Soderbergh
Up Against Amanda (Festival Winner) Lead Concorde-New Horizons
A Fine Line Between Cute & Creepy Lead Rob Slane
A Love Letter To Steve McQueen Lead Michael Mongillo
Innocent Supporting Scott McCullough/ iFilm.com
Opossum de Oro (Festival Winner) Lead Axelson-Weintraub Prods.
Tickeled Pink Lead, co-wrote & prod. Sayed Badreya
The Fight (Festival Winner) Lead Michael Winnick
Seed (Festival Winner) Supporting Bobby Sheehan
Family Plan Supporting Fred Gerber
Red Ribbon Blues Supporting Winkler Films
Summer’s Comin’ Supporting Clint Black
Deconstructing Sarah Supporting Craig Baxley
TV: SC Magazine Host (weekly series) FOX Sports
Camp Ronald McDonald Documentary Host, producer Fire Horse Prods.
The New Battlestar Galactica (Pilot) Series Regular Richard Hatch
Dockers Lead Christopher Guest
Galaxy Travel Show Host (series) Jim Kelty
Magellan Wars (Pilot) Series Regular Su-Shann Prods.
Right Time For Love (Pilot) Series Regular Bob Steward
Crowned & Dangerous Supporting (MOW) Stu Segal Prods./ABC
Dou Dou Birds (Cartoon VO) Series Regular Torsten Schaefer
THEATRE: (Partial List) (All Lead Roles)
Cheek To Cheek Lead The Coast Playhouse
Beirut Blue The Complex
The Balcony Scene Karen The Complex
Degeneration Brooke The Complex
Cool Scenes From Bill Shakespeare Juliet LA Repertory Theatre
Anything Goes, Carousel, Fiddler… Hope, Louise, Hodel Lincoln Center, NYC
 


TRAINING:
Acting: Lesly Kahn Comedy/TV
Drama Studio London Conservatory
Larry Moss/Michelle Danner Scene Study
Sharon Chatten, Howard Fine Scene Study/Improv
John Levey Audition Technique
Margie Haber/Crystal Carson Cold Reading
Kathy Kinney/Bob Koherr Improvisation/Comedy
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NYC

SPECIAL TALENTS: EXCELLENT ATHLETE!

Sports: gymnastics, precision driving, kickboxing, stunts, ice skating, rollerblading, running, weight lifting, swing dancing, cheerleading, dancing, soccer, horseback riding, rock climbing, mt. biking, kayaking, yoga, billiards, fishing, water-jet-snow skiing, snowboarding. Adrenaline junkie who enjoys hot air ballooning, sky diving and bungee jumping.

Singer: (female & mixed groups) Soprano (4 octaves). Dialects: Southern, New York, British, Valley

American Cancer Society Chairman for "Take A Chance With The Stars" charity event & Camp Ronald McDonald counselor.

Ambassador to India 2002.

 

Karen's Contact Info:

karengrosso@hotmail.com 

www.KarenGrosso.com

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