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Danielle Cloutier is a Los Angeles based SAG-eligible actress/writer who originally hails from Chicago. After kicking around the indie theatre scene in college and finding herself tired of negative temperatures in the winter, she fled for LA. Since moving to the west coast, she has focused on improving her craft through many classes, workshops and independent productions.

For more about Danielle, please scroll down to read her biography and check out the rest of the site!

Philosophy

Danielle's philosophy on acting, writing and creating in general is that it has to come from a positive place. Support others, support yourself, and look for the best in what you're given--and if you're not given anything, take steps to make it yourself. Most of all--have fun, play, and do what you love!!!

A Few Fun Facts...In Her Own Words

Whenever I pick up a new magazine, I flip to the back and start with the last page, then work my way forward. I don't know why. I also have a compulsion about paper straw wrappers. I must tie them in knots once I have freed the straw. It's so bad that I usually have to tie other people's wrappers in knots, too. I buy water bottles at the movie theater, take one sip, then never touch it after the trailers finish. But I bring it home with me. And then leave it somewhere in my apartment, 1/4 full, for at least a week. Then I use it to water plants, which I will inevitably kill. And then I recycle the bottle, because that's how I roll.

Biography Schmiography

Danielle found her way to acting through being a metallurgy major in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. What's metallurgy? Something Danielle wasn't particularly good at, which is how she came to leave school and make her way west. During her time in LA, she has performed in independent films and shorts, regional and national commercials, and the occasional stint on stage in productions like Neil LaBute's Bash and The Goldstar New Vaudeville Variety Hour at Second City. She can currently be found having a blast in her amazing acting class, as well as in numerous casting director workshops. As a writer, Danielle has created scenes for use in classes, workshops, short films, and sketches for the stage. Recently, Danielle co-created and wrote a sitcom pilot with two friends, as an acting vehicle for themselves and some of the brilliant yet-to-be-discovered actors they know. In her spare time, Danielle eats far too much sugar, hikes when she can, and spends a lot of time working with animals, including volunteering and networking for homeless pets!

And for the record, if you ever need to bribe her with something, use a Cadbury Egg.

Interests/Special Skills

Firearms (Handguns); Kickboxing/Boxing (beginner level); fitness pole dancing (beginning aerial work); Dog Handling; Visual Arts including: Drawing, Painting, Metallurgy/Jewelry (Soldering, Lost Wax Casting, etc.), Sculpture (Clay Throwing); Bartending & Barista abilities, Journaling, Hiking, Bowling, Ordained Reverend (thanks, Internet!), Ambidextrous Eyebrows, Baking Cookies That Will Make Your Mouth Water, Developing Silly Little Dances With My Friends.