Cindy Marinangel

Height: 170 cm

Cindy Kathleen Marinangel was born in River Edge, New Jersey, to parents Jim and Kathy Marinangel (née Klehm). When Cindy was a year and a half, they moved to Lake Zurich, Illinois and three years la ...Show More

Cindy Kathleen Marinangel was born in River Edge, New Jersey, to parents Jim and Kathy Marinangel (née Klehm). When Cindy was a year and a half, they moved to Lake Zurich, Illinois and three years later to McHenry, Illinois. She has one younger brother Bill.Cindy grew up snow and water skiing, playing as a left-handed first basewoman for the softball team her father coached, as well as acting, dancing and writing poetry. She graduated high school in three and a half years.Cindy attended Michigan State University for a year, Boston University for a summer and graduated Cum Laude from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She took post-graduate classes at Columbia College Chicago and Pepperdine University.Cindy had her first commercial audition as a baby in New York but her mother said she screamed the whole time and she vowed never to take her back! Cindy's first leading role came in kindergarten where she played Spring, a Queen in the Kindergarten thru third grade play. Her mother rehearsed her so well she knew everyone else's lines and mouthed them when they spoke.Cheerleading, dance shows, pom-poms, student council, musicals and stage plays filled her high school years. She spent several summers dancing and working at Nippersink Resort in Wisconsin. At Purdue she was a Gold Duster dancing with the band at football half times while studying psychology with a theater minor. Cindy served as Skit Director for her sorority Phi Mu, and in her senior year began driving six hours round trip to Chicago to study at the Chicago, Second City. Cindy is a Conservatory Graduate having studied improvisation under Nia Vardalos and Stephen Colbert.Cindy booked her first Chicago audition in the initial year of the hit show "Tony & Tina's Wedding". She spent several years performing six nights a week while also doing children's theater in the mornings. She eventually played Tina in Chicago and went with the show to Las Vegas, later joining an off-Broadway tour cast.Los Angeles soon beckoned and Cindy began working in TV and film, starring opposite Fred Durst and Tim Bagley among others. She voiced two characters in the number one video game Brutal Legends with Jack Black and Ozzy Osbourne. Cindy was personally selected by the Knowles family to voice a half-hour narration for E! Entertainment which ran internationally, called "Beyonce' Uncut". Cindy produced and hosted an online radio show, and in 2007 was honored to be inducted by Mark Rydell and Martin Landau as a Lifetime Member of the famed Actors Studio in New York and Los Angeles.A great lover of live performance, Cindy continues to grace the stage in plays and ballroom dance performances. She formed the film company "Angel Baker Productions" and co-wrote, produced and starred in the epic short romance "Eternal Waltz", sponsored in part by the Johann Strauss Society of Germany. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity. Hide