SAG-ELIGIBLE
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.
ACTOR • DIRECTOR
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PROJECTS
FILM/TV
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After surviving a brutal massacre, a wounded young woman forces a final reckoning with the men who tried take everything away.
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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.
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After the passing of her sister, a young woman grapples with grief and what happens after someone you love passes away.
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Desperate to preserve her fading connection to her beloved mother, a grieving young woman attempts to uphold a cherished family tradition.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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