A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Chelsey Donn is a bi-coastal actress and comedian who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to two proud Brooklyn natives and was raised in Southern New Jersey. Chelsey spent the summers of her early childhood in the Catskill Mountains watching her grandmother, Sherry Mann, perform stand-up comedy. From a very young age, Chelsey was inspired by her grandmother and quickly learned the magic and transformative nature of the stage. Chelsey was accepted into the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. While at NYU she studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Stonestreet Studios, and Upright Citizens Brigade. Chelsey graduated with honors and earned the Founders Day Award for high academic achievement. Since graduating from NYU Chelsey has performed in several exciting theatrical, film, and television productions and has worked with many award-winning writers, directors, and actors. Following in the footsteps of her grandmother, Chelsey studies improv comedy at The Groundlings and can also be seen performing stand-up at various venues throughout NYC and Los Angeles.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.