Biography

Andrea Helene (born 1963, Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, Meisner teacher, and producer who earned a B.A. from Rice University, where she also studied music, and trained at the Second City Players Workshop in Chicago, Comedy on the Lot in Los Angeles, and James Franco's Studio 4. She spent 1992–2007 at Playhouse West in Los Angeles, where she acted in and taught numerous productions alongside directors like Jeff Goldblum and Robert Carnegie. She is a SAG-AFTRA member, speaks English, German, and French, and is based in both Los Angeles and Mallorca, Spain. Her notable film credits include A League of Their Own (1992) (Tom Hanks, Geena Davis), Colombiana (2011) (Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan), Here's the Kicker (2011) (Chris Harris, Ian Michaels), and Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) (Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo). On television she has appeared in The West Wing (2004), Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (2012), The New Normal (2012), You're the Worst (2016), Transparent (2017), and American Crime Story (2018).