Heather Marie Marsden    
 

Who Is This Girl?

** What a year its been! From working on stage in a world premiere rock musical with a multi Tony award winning director, an Oscar nominated writer and a multi Grammy winning song writing team, to wrapping a romantic comedy feature, to recording with Bob Dylan, to voicing Sarah Lyons and the 2008 VGA awards. And Father Time has not brought in the new year quite yet!

 

**Behind her back, it has been said: "If ever an anti-depressant were to take human form, it would certainly look and behave like Heather Marie Marsden." (Jeff Bond, Femme Fatale Mag.) Voted by Femme Fatale magazine as "one of the sexiest actresses of the year", actress / singer / songwriter Heather is a native Detroiter who grew up believing she could be an actress, ballerina, race car driver, and archaeologist. Didn’t we all? So far, she’s acted in films and t.v., danced on stage and screen, and is the voice of Sentinal Sarah Lyons, commander of the Lyons Pride Platoon. Now, if only she could drive Andre’s car…

**Most recently, Heather has starred opposite Michael Madsen and Erik Palladino in Spike’s car crash extravaganza, Crash N Burn, and will be cracking a bullwhip in MGM’s upcoming comedy American Summer. She has recently finished shooting the romantic comedy How to Make Love to a Woman with Josh Meyers and Ike Barinholtz. Other film and tv roles include: Charmed, Drake & Josh, Austin Powers, That Thing You Do.

**Intermittent of on-camera TV and film roles, Heather has voiced Sentinal Sarah Lyons, a Capital Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel member and the commander of the Lyons' Pride Platoon, for the ever popular game Fallout 3. She is also the voicing the nominees and winners for Spikes 2008 VGA awards, hosted by Jack Black.

**Trained in the theatre, Heather’s professional career started when she toured the United States with the National Tour of Sweet Charity. Within the first month of moving to Los Angeles, Heather landed the role of “Val” in Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera’s A Chorus Line, directed by Baayork Lee, one of the original cast members of the Tony Award winning play. Heather then originated, ("Marsden is the perfect ingenue." ~Charles Battersby, NYTheatre), and reprised ("Heather Marie Marsden is very fetching as the cute and captivating Becky." ~Alan Ruskin, L.A.Splash.com), the role of "Becky Fielding" in the quirky 50's sci-fi hit It Came From Beyond. Heather then originated the role of “Elyssa”, the President’s drug happy daughter (“Marsden dazzles” ~ Robert Farini, Variety) in the satirical cult-hit operetta, The Beastly Bombing, which won LA Weekly’s “Musical of the Year”. In 2008, Heather worked with 4 time Tony Award Winning director, Richard Maltby, Jr., Oscar nominee writer, Anna Hamilton Phelan, and multi Grammy winners Cynthia and Barry Mann as “Zephyr”, in the world premiere of the rock musical Mask, based on the Peter Bogdanovich film.

**Heather’s musicianship has led her to the recording studio, where she has co-written and co-produced two pop/rock releases and a billboard charting dance hit that showcase her as a talented and credible songwriter and vocalist. Her first release, Pieces of Skye, not only enjoyed European air-play, but also licensed songs “Supergirl” and “Stalker” to hit shows Law & Order, Miss Teen USA, Las Vegas, National Lampoon’s Gold Digger’s movie, Cheerleader Nation and Sports Illustrated Supermodel Search. Cuts from her second release, Darkblueworld’s The Harratt Sessions, have been featured in the horror film Boo!, and received airplay on LA’s 103.1 Her single "Venice Freak" entered the Billboard Dance Charts at #25.

 
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