A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Marisa Sullivan, a Chicago native, moved out to LA after studying in France and attending University of Iowa, where she studied French and Theatre. She knew she wanted to be an actress for as long as she can remember and had won many lead roles in plays growing up. At the age of 19, she auditioned for MTV's "Wanna Be a VJ, too?" contest with thousands of other hopefuls. She was selected as 1 of 12 finalists out of 8,000 across the country and appeared on TRL, garnering some nationwide publicity. Thinking those were pretty good odds to move further, she continued her studies in LA, at the Joanne Baron/D.W. Brown Studio with Elaine Williams, studying Meisner. Marisa has worked on a few independent films, commercials, music videos thus far and has made some television appearances on networks such as NBC, Fox News Channel, E!, MTV and Spike TV. Marisa has been active around the LA theatre scene, portraying Ginger from 'Casino' in the play 'Wiseguys' and performing a lead role in 'Dark Side of the Moon', a visual performance piece to Pink Floyd's album of the same name that got rave reviews in the LA Times. She has also recently appeared in Ray Romano's new sitcom, 'Men of a Certain Age'. She is currently freelancing for In Touch Weekly magazine and for Image Locations, recently managing such shoots such as Vogue with Rachel McAdams and Dior with Sharon Stone. She hopes to go further into the production world and has a show in the works that she will be starring in! Ultimately she wants to be acting and producing. Keep your eyes peeled for this larger than life personality!
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.