Marnie Mahannah

Biography

Marnie Mahannah is an actor, writer, and director. 

When she moved from Kelowna to Vancouver to pursue acting, Marnie almost immediately found herself on set—behind the scenes. Those years working as a crew member led her to pick up a thing or two, albeit in the beginning those things were literal pieces of trash. She butt-swept her way through big budget shows such as Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Elysium, and Age of Adaline (to name a few) as a production assistant, gaining vital firsthand knowledge in the process.

​By the time she decided to return her focus to her acting career, Marnie had a plethora of experience behind the scenes and a network of savvy film folk. Years of training with professional coaches in the city helped hone her acting craft and garnered her several bookings on indie films and roles on networks like ABC and Lifetime. Still, Marnie was not satisfied leaving her career at the whims of a volatile film industry. So, she made her own work.

In 2018 Marnie wrote, produced, directed, and acted in her first film. The relationships fostered with professional filmmakers during those long days on set as crew proved fundamental to its success, as were the countless hours of scene study and character building. This conquest ignited in Marnie a new fervor to continue creating her own work. Now, she’s utilizing that momentum to assist fellow actors in “getting in the room.”