Other Lives

Actor
I've been a professional actor since 1990. My heart belongs to theatre, but if you're interested in my movies and TV appearances, you can go to www.imdb.com and type my name in the search box. 


My favorite film role was Maggie Runyon in The Contender, a political thriller with Jeff Bridges and Joan Allen. I played Gary Oldman's wife.  

To view my TV/Film demo, look to the right, and under Labels, click on the first one, Film/TV Demo.

Here's a few photos from plays I've been in: Hamlet, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and On the Verge.

Producer
I fell in love with Selected Shorts at Symphony Center (perhaps you've tuned in on NPR?),  and adapted the idea to showcase Virginia talent. Virginia Arts & Letters LIVE, since 2004, is an annual live event in which VA actors read short stories by VA writers, accompanied by VA musicians. James River Writers and the Cultural Arts Center in Glen Allen co-produce, in association with The READ Center for adult literacy.


VoiceOver Talent
 You hear me, but you don't know it's me. (Heck, I don't know it's me half the time, and I was there.) I voice commercials, documentary films, books on tape, cartoon characters, and I'm the voice you love to hate on your cell phone's GPS (not the car GPS, just the cell phone ones.) The public transportation system in town uses my voice on the buses. I like to say that I tell people where to get off. I'm pretty hilarious if you haven't figured that out already. Want to book me for a voiceover? Please hop over to www.IreneZieglerVoiceOvers.com.

Wife, Mom, Country Dweller
Bragging now: my husband, Graham is a creative genius. He had the vision to see the domestic possibilities in a decrepit Pennsylvania barn, which he saved and moved to Charles City County, VA. But getting it here was the just the beginning. Next came the two and a half-year process of putting it back up again. He and his foreman, with a crew of talented carpenters, did an amazing job. We moved in with Maya the wolf-dog in October, 2004.


My son, Addison, just won an American Visions Award for a stop-animation film he co-created last summer, when he was a rising high school senior. You can see his amazing film, titled Reverie, by clicking on the hyperlink. In the film, Addison is the the one on the left.

My parents still live in central Florida. They were married in 1952. They're awesome. Some readers of Rules of the Lake seem to be confused about the difference between fact and fiction, so I'll clear it up right here: my dad is not, nor has he ever been, a feckless womanizer. Neither is my mother dead, as you can see. Rules of the Lake is fiction.  They are, however, pretty darn cute.

Sister
I have three sisters. We refer to ourselves as the Sisty Uglers, because we're high-larious. I really like these three pictures. The first was taken circa 1966, on the wall holding back Lake Byron in DeLand, FL. Left to right, that's Patte, me, June and Karen.

The second, in  the same relative poses, was taken twenty-seven years later at my sister, Karen's 40th birthday, 1993, on the same (rebuilt) wall.

The third was taken sixteen years later on the occasion of my father's 80th birthday, 2009. My folks no longer own the property on Lake Byron, so we started a new tradition outside their present home in DeLand.