Rona Bernadette is a SAG-Eligible award-winning actor known for grounded, emotionally resonant performances and strong, nuanced characters across film and theatre.

*Selected; Extended list available upon request

*FEATURE FILMS

Blood & Dust | Lyla Mae (Lead) — Dir. Trevor Rock — In Post-Production

Fight 4 Your Life | Verrat’s Fem Guardian (Principal) — Dir. Bryan Bachar

Scars Run Deep | Waiter (Featured) — Dir. Trevor Rock — Best Crime Feature, Cowspokes International Film Fest 2024

The Matrix Resurrections | Deus Machina Employee (Featured), Noodle Shop Patron, Swarmer — Dir. Lana Wachowski

No Address Homeless Person — Dir. Julia Verdin

Born A ChampionMMA Spectator — Dir. Alex Ranrivelo

*SHORT FILMS

Speak With Me | Jasmin Martinez (Principal) — Dir. Sydney Strange — In Post-Production

Paid For | Claudia (Co-Lead) — Dir. Zemario Sheppard — Best Emotional Film Award & Best Actress Nomination, SacTown Film Festival 2026

Even In The After | Kia (Lead) — CoDir. Eileen Hoàng — Gold Award: Outstanding 48 Hour Film, Sacramento International Film Festival 2025

Dandelion DaydreamsAlexis (Lead) — Dir. Courtney Banzon — 2x Best Actress Award, SacTown Film Festival 2026 & PCS Film Festival 2025

The Jacket | Carly (Supporting, Female Lead) — Sandy Noricks — Rising Star Award, SacTown Movie Buffs 2024

PatienceApril (Supporting, Female Lead) — Dir. Chris Kimotek — Best Drama Award, Sacramento International Film Festival 2024

*TELEVISION

Casa Grande | Multiple Episodes — Rosalie, Kitchen Staff (Featured) — ESX Entertainment, Amazon Freevee

Blindspotting | 2 Episodes — Roller Coaster Rider (Featured), Park Yogi — Lions Gate, STARZ

13 Reasons Why | Multiple Episodes — High School Student (Featured), College Student, Graduation Attendee — Paramount Television, Netflix

Surface | Multiple Episodes — Clubber, Restaurant Goer, Hotel Guest, Pedestrian — Hello Sunshine, Apple TV

The Last Thing He Told Me | Coffee Shop Patron — Hello Sunshine, Apple TV

GoliathFinancial District Pedestrian — Amazon Studios, Amazon Prime

*COMMERCIAL

ClifBar | HIIT Workout (Principal)

SnapChat | New Filters (Principal)

Bear Naked | Slip & Slide Surfer (Featured)

PROJECTS

*THEATRE

  • Catherine has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert. When he dies she has more than grief to deal with: There’s her estranged sister, Claire, and Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind. And a further problem: How much of her father’s madness – or genius – will Catherine inherit?

  • When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy. But as she befriends a group of charismatic nerds all committed to becoming the next champion, she discovers that there‘s more to this art form than playing pretend.

  • Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men on Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.

  • A fortune-seeking man, Petruchio, marries and mentally "tames" a headstrong, sharp-tongued woman, Katherine, in a battle of wills that forces her into the role of an obedient wife to allow her younger sister to marry.

EDUCATION

THANK YOU TO MY TEACHERS!

  • Elizabethan

  • Commedia Dell’arte

  • Improvisation

  • Theory & Techniques of Acting

  • Stage Combat

  • Greek Tragedy

  • Absurd

  • Brecht & Epic

  • Modern Realism

AWARDS

& RECOGNITION

Best Actress — Alexis (Lead) — Dandelion Daydreams — SacTown Film Festival 2026

Gold Award: Outstanding 48 Hour Film — Kia (Lead) — Even in the After — Sacramento International Film Festival 2025

Best Actress — Alexis (Lead) — Dandelion Daydreams — A Place Called Sacramento Film Festival 2025

Rising Star — (Supporting, Female Lead) — The Jacket — SacTown Movie Buffs Film Festival 2024

Irene Ryan Scholarship Award & Runner Up — Region 7 — Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2025

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