Starla Benford Biography ((?)-)

Gender
Female
Occupation
Actress

Famous Works

  • CREDITS
  • Stage Appearances
  • Blanche, A Streetcar Named Desire, Capitol City Playhouse, Austin,TX, 1986
  • Trojan interpreter and other roles, The Oresteia, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, 1994
  • LaWanda, Stonewall Jackson's House, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1997
  • Madeline and other roles, One Small Step (staged reading), 1998
  • Lady Macduff and second weird sister, Macbeth, Theatre for a New Audience, American Place Theatre, 1999
  • Witch, Macbeth, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 2000
  • Appeared in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington,DC; as Stefanie, Denial, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT; as Popova, "The Bear," Directorfest 99, Here Theatre; in Eastville, Connecticut Repertory Theatre; as Rose, Fences; in Flying Fables, Apollo Theatre; as second woman, From the Mississippi Delta, Stamford,CT; in Media Amok, American Repertory Theatre; in the title role, Phaedra; as Roach, Slaughter City, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA; in the title role, The Snow Queen; in Sonata Blue (solo show), Austin, TX; and in The Venetian Twins, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Major Tours
  • The Vagina Monologues, North American cities, beginning 2001
  • Film Appearances
  • Party guest, Blank Check (also known as Blank Cheque), Buena Vista, 1994
  • Police technician, A Perfect Murder, Warner Bros., 1998
  • Denise Mayfield/Nefertiti Klaus, Tree Shade (short film), Wing anda Prayer Productions, 1998
  • Woman with flowers, Our Song, IFC Films, 2001
  • Mrs. Morton, My Angel Is a Centerfold, Carbonated Films, 2001
  • 2 Birds with 1 Stallone (also known as Fight the Good Fight, Lou Loves People, and 2 Birds with 1 Stallone: The Life Story ofLou Benedetti), Lil Mama Productions, 2003
  • Also appeared in Hard Promises, Heartbreak Hotel, and The Killing Zone.
  • Television Appearances
  • Series
  • Judith, One Life to Live (also known as One Life to Live: The Summer of Seduction), ABC, 1997-1998
  • Movies
  • Save the Dog!, The Disney Channel, 1988
  • Detective, A Seduction in Travis County (also known as Blind Judgement), CBS, 1991
  • Lady reporter, Bed of Lies, ABC, 1992
  • Episodic
  • Amani Freeman, "Color Lines," New York Undercover, Fox, 1995
  • Betty Wald, "Monster," Law & Order, NBC, 1998
  • Carol Daley, "Monogamy," Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NBC, 2002
  • Collins, "Two Hundred and Thirty-three Days," Third Watch, NBC, 2002
  • Also appeared in episodes of As the World Turns.
  • Other
  • Iona Shine, Harambee! (special), WNET (New York City), 1996

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

    Periodicals
    • Austin Chronicle, June 8, 2001