Darnell Rhea

The characters embodied by Darnell Rhea (ˈrēə) have lived during Shakespeare’s time, our time, and into a future that’s only been imagined, like Love Log. These characters live in what some call “a world of make-believe”. Darnell sees it as a link from the people on the stage/screen to the audience. That link is made up of an empathy that is developed by telling the stories of the people who exist in this very real world that we all live in together. In hopes that this empathy will allow us to see ourselves in people we thought were so different from us, Darnell continues to breathe as these characters while telling their stories.

Darnell has had the pleasure of studying and working with masters of their crafts during opportunities she will never forget. Her earliest training started in her hometown at The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and The University of New Orleans. Her studies continued later with acting coaches in New York and Los Angeles (her current home). From La to LA she has worked with greats like Taylor Hackford, Bernie Mac, and Jaimie Foxx.

With only a few destinations checked off her list of travel plans, Darnell has begun to see the world and the beautiful mixture of people in it just as she had always hoped. Her other pleasures lie in food and wine, reading, playing chess, learning new skills like the piano and American Sign Language, feeling the warmth of the sun on her skin, and staring out the window at trees swaying in the wind.