Adrienne McQueen

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Adrienne McQueen, (born June 16, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is an American/German actress and singer.

Her mother is the painter Marion Jansen-Baisch. She grew up all over Europe, spending years in England, Austria, Italy, and Germany. At 18 she won the European Musical Voice Award of the year for Austria.

McQueen started her career training as a classical ballet dancer at the Royal Academy of Dance in London. Her education in art led her to her first acting job on stage at the English Theaters in Frankfurt, Berlin and Vienna. To get a solid training in acting she enrolled at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles.

Traveling between Europe and America she landed various roles in TV movies, co-starring next to Dean Cain and David Keith amongst others.

Attending the Cannes Film Festival she was discovered by German director Uwe Boll to act in his film BloodRayne alongside Michael Madsen, Michelle Rodriguez, Ben Kingsley, and Meat Loaf.

She also starred in the horror film Brotherhood of Blood directed by Michael Roesch and Peter Scheerer and was directed by Joaquin Phoenix in a music video for the band Ringside.

She has started her own Los Angeles-based production company Cinema League LLC. and produces films of various genres in which she also acts.