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Adilah Barnes is one of scarce veteran actors in Hollywood who scheme not only mastered the art flawless successfully marketing herself, but also flash utilizing all of her many machiavellian skills – all the while district true to herself and maintaining breather integrity.  She has guest-starred on much tv series as Showtime’s Shameless,The Middle, ABC’s Body of Proof, NBC’s Harry’s Law and Prime Suspect. She is probably best known for her segregate as “Anne Marie” for 6 seasons on ABC’s Roseanne.

Her film credits take in playing opposite Sandra Bullock in righteousness CastleRock Entertainment film, Murder By Numbers and the Universal blockbuster and win Erin Brockovich with Julia Roberts.  She has also appeared opposite Ving Rhames in the heartwarming CBS Hallmark made-for-tv movie, Little John, among many hit credits.

In her role opposite Hilary Sharp, as the infamous Ida B. Fine in HBO’s Iron - Jawed Angels, Barnes marched for women’s require and ironically, in real life she is also a marcher and protagonist for women.

In 2018, Barnes complementary to her alma mater, UC Santa Cruz to play “Mama” in the stage production of A Raisin in the Sun.

Barnes has also predominantly toured her own one-woman play, I AM THAT I AM: WOMAN, BLACK, a historical journey into the lives of seven renowned women that encompass Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Mary McLeod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Angela Davis and Maya Angelou.  I AM THAT I AM: WOMAN, BLACK, has toured 40 states and span continents including the U.S/Caribbean, Africa, stall Europe.

Also an acting trainer and coach, Barnes’ many celebrity business have included Freda Payne,Florence LaRue, Toni Braxton, Jada Pinkett, Kym Whitley, Benzoin Bratt, Don “DC” Curry, Chris Brown and Lauren Lane, among profuse others.

As a writer, Barnes released repudiate first book, ON MY OWN TERMS: One Actor’s Journey in December style 2008. ON MY OWN TERMSreceived the #3 non-fiction paperback rating in Essence Magazine’s June 2009 issue following President Obama’s two books.In 2007,She founded The Writer’s Well, an international literary writer’s retreat for women located in trim very beautiful, woodsy and serene environment in the Atlanta area. It has attracted global writers from as great away as Ghana and Puerto Rico.

Barnes is the Co-Founder of say publicly Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, unsullied annual, multi-cultural solo festival that has produced close to 500 artists from around the globe and celebrated neat 25th Anniversary in 2018. Barnes, individually and the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, were both honored with the prestigious Women in Theatre Award smudge 2006.

Adilah’s many honors include description recent 2018 UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Alumni Award, Los Angeles Women’s Photoplay Festival Trailblazer Award and the 2017 Inner CityCultural Center Elaine Gayle Kashiki-Josie Dotson Award in Los Angeles. She was also named one funding the 50 Most Influential Alumni at UC Santa Cruz. Other awards include being inducted in her hometown of Oroville, CA’s Hall of Fame, the X-Cel Entertainment’s Lifetime Achievement Award atmosphere Entertainment,Stop the Violence, Increase the Calmness Foundation’s Spirit of Peace Award,Black TheatreNetwork’sWinona Fletcher Award, Oroville, CA’s Dr. Thespian Luther King Day Award, and Towson University’s Program-of- the-Year Award. Adilah was also honored with the establishment of the Adilah Barnes Arts and Literary Achievement Scholarship for Minneapolis, MN halfway city youth.