Biography
Jane Levi is an American actress, known to the Russian viewer for Mia's roles in the horror movie "Evil Dead: Black Book" and Tesa Altman in Sitkom "Suburb."
Jane Levi was born on December 29, 1989 in Los Angeles. Her parents are creative people: Father - Musician, Mom - artist.
Childhood Jane passed to Marin County (Northern California), she went to school. Leva studied well, in high school seriously engaged in hip-hop and headed the women's football team. Simultaneously with these hobbies, Jane actively participated in the play of the local theater.
The actress remembers his school years with pleasure, because she was popular, everyone knew her. But the popularity did not prevent the girl to maintain good friendly relations with schoolchildren. Probably, at that time, Jane Levi understood that he wanted to be an actress. After school, she entered the Goucher College, but he studied there all the semester. After departing from College, Jane moved to New York and entered the acting studio. There, the girl studied the art of drama for two years, and then returned to Los Angeles.
Films
Jane received his first role soon after returning. Like a number of colleagues, the actress began a creative biography with a secondary role. The actress periodically appeared on the screen in the first season of the series "Shamechadniki" in the role of Mandy.
In early 2011, luck smiled at a beginner actress - the girl received a major role in the comedy TV series "Suburb." This is an American comedy television series, which lasted three seasons. In this series, the actress was prepared by the role of a teenage girl, whose divorced father and her daughter moves from New York to the suburbs, hoping to understand the daughter and get close to her, and also to protect the girl from the temptations of a big city.
Directorists and producers did not embarrass the fact that Jane's portfolio is only one secondary role, she has little experience. The actress did not let them down. In the role of Tesa Altman Jane was gorgeous, critics and spectators perceived the series well, and TV Guide magazine called it one of the stars of the year. Later and Forbes included an actress in the top 30 of the rising stars.
In the spring of 2012, the audience saw another film with the participation of Jane Levi - "no one leaves." In the same year, a comedy "Korotka" was published, in which the actress played a central role. The girl performed the role of Eypril, Ren's girlfriend (Victoria Justice), who lost his younger brother at Halloween celebration. A group of adolescents goes in search of a child, and all the action of the film takes only one festive night.
On February 3, 2012, it became known that Jane would starred in the lead role of the "sinister dead." The producers were conceived by the remake of the cult thriller Sam Raymy 1981. This film was the full-length debut of director Federico Alvarez.
Already next year, the audience saw a new version of the horror film "The Evil Dead: Black Book", in which Levi played a drug addicted Mia. Initially, this role was to play Lily Collins, but the producers changed the decision and offered it to Jane. The actress admits that the fan of horror films, but agreed.
According to the plot, drug addicts Mia promises to throw drugs, and the friends of the girls try not to release it from the house, so that she did not break down and did not receive an overdose. Because of this, young people do not immediately notice that there is something wrong in the house, and Mia suffers from breaking, the girl is obsessed with demons.
The most difficult act of the actress was given a scene where she was buried alive. The girl recalls how much spiritual and physical strength it took her to lie in the crude pit with a plastic bag on the head and feel as the earth falls asleep. Fortunately, behind the ear of Levi was an oxygen tube through which she breathed.
In winter, 2013, the filming of the film "Damned Place" should begin, where the actress plays a governess collecting porcelain dolls. But the project was frozen.
But in 2014, the actress received a role in other projects: in the fantastic musical "FIF-PAF Kroashka" about the young provincial actress, which receives a chance to become a star, and the Drama "About Alex" about school friends who are collected together after the release of For the fact that one of them tried to commit suicide.
In 2015, the actress appeared in the Comedy "Frank and Cindy", a short picture "here and now", and also played a role in the short fantastic drama "Nicholas and Hillary".
Personal life
Jane Levi was not long married to actor Jame Freitas. They secretly got married on March 3, 2011, and in October of the same year they no longer lived together.
On April 16, 2013, Jane Levi filed documents for divorce. In the statement, she pointed out that she was with her husband "irreconcilable disagreements," and immediately stated that the alimony on his marital support as a former wife is not going to pay.
Today, the actress lives alone and fully focused on work.
Jane Levi now
In 2016, she began to starve in the comedy TV series "My Time / Your Time".
In the same year, Jane Levi received a major role in the full-length picture. The actress played the role of Rocky in a thriller with elements of Horror "Do not breathe" Fede Alvarez. The premiere of the film was held on the composite musical and cinematic festival South By Southwest.
The film tells about three young robbers who decide to break into the house of the blind old man. But the owner of the house turns out to be a veteran of war in Iraq and gives the thieves a brutal response.
The film has received numerous positive feedback, as well as a number of thematic awards for horror films. "Do not breathe" won the filmmith Golden Schmoes Awards, Ihorror Awards and Saturn - all in the nomination "The Best Movie Horror".
Also in 2016, the actress appeared in a criminal comedy "I no longer feel at home in this world."
Already in 2016, information also appeared that it was approved for the role in the continuation of the TV series "Twin Pix". Soon this information was confirmed. Jane Levi received a secondary role Elizabeth, a resident of Twin Pizes.
The authors of the series made Mark Frost and David Lynch. The picture continues the storyline of the original series of 1991, and some of the roles are given to the stars of the old Twin Picca. In fact, Twin Pixes 2017 is not a remake and not the original picture, and the third season, a couple of decades.
The action of the new season takes 25 years after the finals of the show - the same amount passed in the real world, so there were no problems with the caste. The plot begins with the return of the main character - Agent FBI Cooper (Kyle Maclahlen) to the mystical and mysterious city of Twin Peaks, where the murder of the high school student Laura Palmer, which turned out to be connected with otherworldly forces.
Also in 2017, Jane Levi played the main female role in the fantastic comedy "Monster Traki". Jane approved a major role in the Monster Trucks project in 2014. The film's budget exceeded $ 100 million.
The plot of the film focuses on a specific hobby - assembling a monster tract, a car with huge wheels, as well as a suspension with a large move and a very powerful engine. It is built to participate in specific competitions, where such machines have to participate in roads off-road, and perform special acrobatic numbers.
In the plot in the homemade monster-timber of the main character (Lucas Till) settled the real monster, who gives the car with supernatural abilities.
The film failed at the box office and received negative reviews of film critics.
Filmography
- 2011 - "Shamelessness"
- 2011-2014 - "Suburb"
- 2012 - "Corotheka"
- 2012 - "No one leaves"
- 2013 - "Evil Dead: Black Book"
- 2014 - "About Alex"
- 2014 - "FIF-PAF Baby"
- 2015 - "Frank and Cindy"
- 2015 - "Here and now"
- 2015 - "Nicholas and Hillary"
- 2016 - "My Time / Your Time"
- 2016 - "In this world I no longer feel at home"
- 2016 - "Do not breathe"
- 2017 - "Monster Tracks"
- 2017 - Twin Pix (season 3)