Elle Travis

Elle Travis (born December 22, 1975) is an American actress and award winning Film director .

Biography
Early life
Travis was born in Berkeley, California in 1975. Her parents met on Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California in the 60s, they were never married. Her mother was a member of the Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company, founded by noted poet Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore. When Travis was a toddler, her mother moved them down the coast of California finally landing in Los Angeles. Her mother met and married a man who later adopted Travis. They moved to a place called Prana, an ashram in South Central.

Travis attended Natures Music School For The Arts and eventually transferred to a creative magnet school where she studied art, music and theatre. At the age of seven she made her first claymation short film called The Clown.

In junior high, an actress that was staying with the family took Travis to the Master Class at the Stella Adler Conservatory in Los Angeles. She became one of Stella’s youngest protégés and Stella became her "greatest inspiration."

Adult roles
As an adult, Travis gravitated towards portraying delicate, damaged or disturbed characters. Her fragile, girl-next-door looks soon got her cast as victims in festival films, Jack, Burning City and Ravenna, giving her the title of a "festival darling." Not wanting to be typecast, Travis joined the sketch comedy school The Groundlings. She graduated their program and went on to get hired as a sketch regular on VH1’s Odd Man Out. Since Stella, Travis had a strong pull to the stage. She was a member of a South Bay Shakespeare company where she played the female lead in such plays as, The Taming of The Shrew, Romeo & Juliette, and Hamlet. More contemporary theater credits include the critically acclaimed Jack, the NAACP award winning Soldiers Don’t Cry, and classics Buried Child, A Touch of The Poet, and Barefoot In The Park. Travis is also a well-respected voice-over talent, having done voices for television series, The Days, One Tree Hill, and Proof Positive, plus numerous commercial campaigns and several films.

Currently Travis is attached to the epic period drama Pavlova, the supernatural thriller Keeping Faith, and the international romantic comedy Men Don’t Lie.

Private Life
Travis is the oldest of five siblings. She lost her two closest friends to cancer and overdose. Travis grew up in a spiritual artists ashram in South Central LA. She’s originally from Berkeley, California. Since (2003), Travis has been dating actor Joshua Feinman.

Travis is known for promoting humanitarian causes. She currently lives in Malibu, California.

The bharatanatyam dancer Kamala Cesar (Buckner) is Travis’ godmother, who is married to the world-renowned American baritone Thomas Buckner. Travis formally studied opera, singing soprano. Travis competed in gymnastics & swimming in school. She liked swimming the relay because she preferred competing as a team.

Travis was a journalist for the local paper in high school. The Fog poster has Travis’ face on it. The ashram where Travis grew up was attended by Sally Kirkland, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jsu Garcia, Arianna Huffington and Richard Edelstein. Others that visited were Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Telly Savalas & Richard Pryor.

Selected filmography

*Dead Air (2007)
*' (2004) (voice)
*The Days (2004) (voice)
*Proof Positive (2004) (voice)
*The Oprah Winfrey Show (2003)

Theater

*Buried Child
*And Then There Were None
*Soldiers Don’t Cry
*Jack
*The Best Man’s Toast Of All Time
*Letters I Never Wrote
*You Can't Take It with You
*The Diary of a Young Girl
*A Touch Of The Poet
*It’s All Greek To Me
*Barefoot In The Park
*The Taming of the Shrew
*Romeo and Juliet

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