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Elaine Partnow

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Elaine Partnow
Award-winning indie "Slipaway" stars Elaine Partnow & Jesse Pepe
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While acting is her passion, Elaine Partnow is also an author, screenwriter, quotologist, editor, instructor and performance speaker especially noted for her living history portrayals. Elaine has brought some of her dozens of portrayals of fabulous women to tens of thousands of women, men, and children internationally at more than 500 venues. She wrote, co-produced and starred in an educational film about six of those women and was awarded "Best Inspiring Woman in A Film" by Festigious Film Festival (January 2017). She also received the Diamond Award for Best Actor at the NYC Indie Film Festival (January 2017). A member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA since the early 1960s, she's written, produced and acted in her own one-woman show, "Hear Us Roar, A Woman's Connection"; and was commissioned to write and perform "Hispanic Women Speak". She majored in Theater Arts at UCLA and studied with Uta Hagen for two years at the HB Studios in New York. You can find out more about Elaine at her acting website.
BornOctober 28, 1941
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  • Awards
    • 11 wins & 4 nominations

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On board the Slipaway
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Elaine Partnow in I Lived (2015)
Inside Slipaway's cabin
Gorgeous San Diego skies
Is that the only key to the boat?
Elaine Partnow
Elaine Partnow

Known for

Elaine Partnow, Lydia Muijen, Tigran Mutafyan, Rene Flohr, Jesse Pepe, Jim Pallett, Hiroshi Azuma, and Julia Butler in Slipaway (2017)
Slipaway
7.2
  • Fall
  • 2017
Dave Bundtzen, Elaine Partnow, Gavin V. Murray, Colleen Kelly, Alex Winkler, and Marcella Cortland in Window Dressing (2019)
Window Dressing
6.0
Short
  • Clara
  • 2019
Melinda DeKay in Ashes (2018)
Ashes
3.8
  • Caroline
  • 2018
I Lived (2015)
I Lived
4.4
  • Mrs. Lee
  • 2015

Credits

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Actress

  • What I Love and Hate About You
    • Nancy
    • Completed
    • Short
    • 2017
  • The Year of Laughing Dangerously
    • Barbara Huffman
    • Post-production
  • Sunflower Care
    • Winnie Winthrop
    • Completed
    • TV Series
  • Delfino's Journey (2022)
    Delfino's Journey
    • Waitress
    • 2022
  • Alex Trumble and Skye Coyne in The Search for Secret Santa (2022)
    The Search for Secret Santa
    • Esther
    • TV Movie
    • 2022
  • Cristine Prosperi in It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder (2022)
    It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder
    • Aunt Tippy
    • TV Movie
    • 2022
  • Pedro Correa in My Dead Dad (2021)
    My Dead Dad
    • Gavin's Mom
    • 2021
  • Alienated (2021)
    Alienated
    • Betty Durst
    • 2021
  • James Allen Brewer and Korrina Rico in Incision (2020)
    Incision
    • Grammy Cunningham
    • 2020
  • Richard de Klerk and Cara Gee in Alone Wolf (2020)
    Alone Wolf
    • Maggie
    • 2020
  • Jeremy Alter, Tommy Dewey, Minka Kelly, Marc Carlini, and François Arnaud in She's in Portland (2020)
    She's in Portland
    • Joan
    • 2020
  • Misfits (2019)
    Misfits
    • Aunt Doris
    • 2019
  • Dead Weight (2019)
    Dead Weight
    • Lala
    • 2019
  • Ahead (2019)
    Ahead
    • Ms. Summers
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Dave Bundtzen, Elaine Partnow, Gavin V. Murray, Colleen Kelly, Alex Winkler, and Marcella Cortland in Window Dressing (2019)
    Window Dressing
    • Clara
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Cristine Prosperi and Colton Little in A Wedding for Christmas (2018)
    A Wedding for Christmas
    • Florence
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Melinda DeKay in Ashes (2018)
    Ashes
    • Caroline
    • 2018
  • Life Is Strange 2 (2018)
    Life Is Strange 2
    • Doris Stamper (voice)
    • Video Game
    • 2018

Director

  • Elaine Partnow in The Quotable Woman Speaks (2015)
    The Quotable Woman Speaks
    • series director
    • 2015

Writer

  • Elaine Partnow in The Quotable Woman Speaks (2015)
    The Quotable Woman Speaks
    • Writer
    • 2015

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Clips from Slipaway
Demo Reel 2:01
Clips from Slipaway
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Demo Reel 3:40
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Comic Commercial--Gifty Bird
Demo Reel 0:45
Comic Commercial--Gifty Bird
Toby Keith's "Clancy's Tavern"
Demo Reel 3:30
Toby Keith's "Clancy's Tavern"
Drama Reel
Demo Reel 2:29
Drama Reel
Official Trailer
Trailer 1:12
Official Trailer
I-Lived
Trailer 2:18
I-Lived

Personal details

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  • Official sites
    • Official Site
    • Twitter
  • Height
    • 5′ (1.52 m)
  • Born
    • October 28, 1941
    • Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Spouse
    • Turner BrowneAugust 5, 1974 - present
  • Other works
    (1973-present) As a writer, Elaine goes by Elaine Bernstein Partnow. She has three screenplays and two novels under her belt along with 17 published books and she continues to write fiction and nonfiction as well as work as an editor and writing coach. Her most noted book is "The Quotable Woman, The First 5,000 Years," a hefty 5.2 pound collection of almost 20,000 quotations from the works of over 5,000 women hailing from 167 nations. It came out in its 6th edition in 2010 and has been in print for over 35 years. It is a classic! You can find out more about Elaine's books at TheQuotableWoman.com.
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    • Female

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    Elaine's the gal in pink cheering on Danny Collins in Al Pacino's latest movie (March 2015).

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