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Rona Bernadette is an award-winning actor based in Northern California, known for grounded, emotionally resonant performances and strong, nuanced characters across film and theatre.

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PROJECTS

FILM/TV

  • After surviving a brutal massacre, a wounded young woman forces a final reckoning with the men who tried take everything away.

  • When her younger sister unexpectedly arrives and “pays for the hour”, a woman working in a hotel room is forced to confront the shame, secrets, and love she’s been running from.

  • After the passing of her sister, a young woman grapples with grief and what happens after someone you love passes away.

  • Desperate to preserve her fading connection to her beloved mother, a grieving young woman attempts to uphold a cherished family tradition.

  • The Jacket, by Cheryl Bealer-Wynton: After discovering a jacket left at his blowout high school party, a 20-something guy goes in search of the girl who left it there and finally learns how to adult in the process.

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

  • SacTown Film Festival 2026 — Best Actress, Dandelion Daydreams

  • Kennedy Center American College Theatre 2025 — Irene Ryan Runner Up, Region 7

  • A Place Called Sacramento 2025 — Best Actress, Dandelion Daydreams

  • SacTown Movie Buffs 2024 — Rising Star, The Jacket

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