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Television

Southland	Co-Star	dir. Nelson McCormick, TNT
HBO Imagine Project	Lead	dir. Noam Murro, HBO

Film

Richard's Wedding	Lead	dir. Onur Tukel
Destruction Party	Lead	dir. Amanda Mae Meyncke
Mojave	Lead	dir. Peter Sasowsky
The Future	Supporting	dir. Miranda July
Kelp	Lead	dir. B. Dohrmann/S. Cuddeback, Kelly Co.
These Are The Days	Supporting	dir. Russ Lamoureux, Biscuit Filmworks
Love on the Tundra	Lead	dir. Dana Turken
Miriam	Supporting	dir. Matt Cimber, Miriam Productions
At Last	Lead	dir. Chris Wallace, Nocturnal Productions
The Shape of Things	Lead	dir. Tara Waugh
This Is Our Youth	Lead	dir. Tara Waugh
Jonas in the Desert	self	dir. Peter Sempel, Black Sun Flower Film

Stage

Balta Drobule	Vele	St. Casimir Grand Ballroom, LA
Laundry & Bourbon	Elizabeth	Group Repertory Theatre, LA
Enchanted April	Lady Caroline	Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre, LA
Comic Potential	Jacie	Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre, LA
The Four-Million Dollar Giveaway	Kimberly	Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre, LA
Diary of a Catholic School Dropout	Girl #4	Whitmore Lindley Theatre, LA
Who Will Stop the Pain	Elizabeth	Producer's Club, NYC

Commercial

Directors Include:	Kathryn Bigelow	Noam Murro
Peter Care	Jeff Preiss	Andrew Douglas
Russ Lamoureux	Bryan Buckley	Lenny Dorfman
David Frankham	Peter Miller	David Harner
Raymond Bark	Stacy Wall	Neil Tardio
Mark Coppos/Virginia Lee	David Shane	Josh Miller
Josh Melnick/Xander Charity	Albert Kodagolian	Henry Lu
Yael Staav	Conflicts available upon request

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professional website	http://www.oonamekas.com

Actor Bio

Born and raised in New York City, the daughter of filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas and photographer Hollis Melton, Oona grew up immersed in the world of art and cinema. Some of her first memories are of dark theaters illuminated by the light of a projector, watching works by everyone from Stan Brakhage and Harry Smith to Buster Keaton and Sergio Leone.   A performer from an early age, she danced with the New York City Ballet and starting playing the violin at age four. Fifteen years ago, Oona started her career in film as a curator at Anthology Film Archives in New York City and abroad. She had the honor of studying acting with the late Fred Kareman at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She continues to follow her artistic passions as an actor, writer and filmmaker.   Splitting her time between New York and Los Angeles, she has been in many theater productions, countless independent films and appears regularly on television. Realizing her childhood dream of being on both sides of the camera, she makes her directorial debut this summer with The Sleepy Man, a short film based on the short story Sleepy People by Jonathan Lethem.   Her most recent on-camera work includes playing Sasha in newest Miranda July film, The Future, which just premiered at Sundance and was an official selection at the Berlinale and will be in theaters July 29th. She can be seen soon in Destruction Party, also starring Lacey Chabert, Amy Davidson & Vanessa Zima. She also stars in Mojave, a short film by Peter Sasowsky, now in post-production. Oona also gets her "on-set fix" by regularly booking commercial work. In the last few years, she has booked over 25 national television commercials.   Oona is a long-standing board member of Anthology Film Archives, a theater and archive in New York City dedicated to the preservation and screening of cinema in all forms, with an emphasis on experimental and avant-garde film and video.   Passionate about living a life that is kind to the planet, she follows a vegan diet and drives a car that runs on waste vegetable oil. She shares her experiences in her blog, The Lovely Hearts Club. She practices yoga daily and and teaches Integral Yoga hatha and prenatal yoga in Los Angeles, Lovely Hearts Yoga. She is a proud cultural ambassador for the city of Vilnius, Lithuania.   She currently lives in Los Angeles.

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