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Ayanna Berkshire

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Ayanna Berkshire
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Reel contains footage from: Chicago PD, Reform (NBC) Portlandia, Most Pro City (IFC) Grimm, Bears Will Be Bears (NBC) Significant Mother, Whos Your Daddy? (CW) Twilight (Summit Entertainment) Extraordinary Measures (CBS Films) Again And Again (Couch Collective) The Record Keeper (Big Puddle Films) In The Vault, Lex (Complex Networks) The Beautiful (Polluted Pictures) The Shasta Triangle (Mighty Pharaoh Films) Documentary Now!:- Searching For Mr. Larson: A Letter From The Far Side (IFC)
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Ayanna Berkshire is an American stage and screen actress, a resident artist of Artists Repertory Theatre (Portland, Oregon) and a 2020 recipient of the TCG and Fox Fellowship Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, recognized for distinguished achievement. She is best known for her role as Cora in the first of the Twilight Saga films. Originally from a remote island chain in Washington State, Ayanna was just three years old when she began performing for audiences as a young dancer and actress. She had her first agent at 13 years old and has been working professionally since the age of 20. Ayanna splits her time between Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California.
BornJanuary 16, 1977
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Brendan Fraser, Courtney B. Vance, and Ayanna Berkshire in Extraordinary Measures (2010)
Ayanna Berkshire in The Record Keeper (2012)
Ayanna Berkshire in The Shasta Triangle (2019)
Ayanna Berkshire, Parenthood “Election Day”
Ayanna Berkshire as Caroline Lee, Parenthood “Election Day”
Ayanna Berkshire in Portlandia (2011)
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Ayanna Berkshire
Ayanna Berkshire, The Shasta Triangle, Mighty Pharaoh Films
Ayanna Berkshire
Ayanna Berkshire, The Shasta Triangle, Mighty Pharaoh Films
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Known for

Kristen Stewart, Michael Welch, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, and Jackson Rathbone in Twilight (2008)
Twilight
5.3
  • Cora
  • 2008
Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in Portlandia (2011)
Portlandia
7.8
TV Series
  • Anna
  • Lost Wedding Guest
  • Sarah
Fred Armisen and Bill Hader in Documentary Now! (2015)
Documentary Now!
8.1
TV Series
  • Renee
Ayanna Berkshire in Again and Again (2019)
Again and Again
Short
  • Regina
  • 2019

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Actress

  • Who Are You People
    • Completed
  • New Life
    • Post-production
  • The Way We Speak
    • In Production
  • Boundary Springs
    • Post-production
  • Daisy Ridley in Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)
    Sometimes I Think About Dying
  • In the Vault (2017)
    In the Vault
  • The Dark Divide (2020)
    The Dark Divide
  • Taylor Richardson, Auli'i Cravalho, Rhenzy Feliz, Anthony Jacques, and Gerald Isaac Waters in All Together Now (2020)
    All Together Now
  • Ayanna Berkshire in Again and Again (2019)
    Again and Again
  • Barry W. Levy, Ayanna Berkshire, Helenna Santos, Dani Lennon, Madeline Merritt, and Deborah Lee Smith in The Shasta Triangle (2019)
    The Shasta Triangle
  • Aidy Bryant in Shrill (2019)
    Shrill
  • Fred Armisen and Bill Hader in Documentary Now! (2015)
    Documentary Now!
  • American Vandal (2017)
    American Vandal
  • Dana Millican and Patrick D. Green in One Bird at a Time (2018)
    One Bird at a Time
  • Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in Portlandia (2011)
    Portlandia
  • Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie in Leave No Trace (2018)
    Leave No Trace
    • (uncredited)
  • Rebecca Romijn, Lindy Booth, Christian Kane, John Larroquette, and John Harlan Kim in The Librarians (2014)
    The Librarians
  • Jason Beghe, Marina Squerciati, and Tracy Spiridakos in Chicago P.D. (2014)
    Chicago P.D.
  • Ryan Warren Smith in Lean on Pete (2017)
    Lean on Pete

Producer

  • Barry W. Levy, Ayanna Berkshire, Helenna Santos, Dani Lennon, Madeline Merritt, and Deborah Lee Smith in The Shasta Triangle (2019)
    The Shasta Triangle
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Ayanna Berkshire as Cora in "Twilight", Summit Entertainment
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Clip featuring Lindsay Frame and Ayanna Berkshire in "The Record Keeper"
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    • January 16, 1977
    • San Juan Islands, Washington, USA
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    Ayanna lived on an island with 55 residents and went to school in a one room schoolhouse with 6 students.

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