Tania Verafield

Tania Verafield is a native Angeleno, actress and the granddaughter of blacklisted Abbott & Costello screenwriter Robert Lees. She began her career as a Ford model at age 10. She made her feature film debut in 2005 opposite Christian Bale in "Bad Times (2005)", the directorial debut of David Ayer, screenwriter of Academy Award-winning "Training Day (2001)". Since then, she has played opposite Tilda Swinton in foreign thriller "Julia (2008)" and appeared in 3 Sundance Film Festival hits - Destin Daniel Cretton's "Short Term 12 (2008)" (Short Film Grand Jury Prize 2009) & "I Am Not a Hipster (2012)" and Justin Chon's "Ms. Purple (2019)". Television credits include "24 heures chrono (2001)", "Ghost Whisperer (2005)", "Standoff (2006)", and "La vie avant tout (2000)", as well as the award-winning web-series "Namaste, Bitches (2014)". Theatre credits include "Othello", "For The Love Of (or the roller derby play) (LA); "Lobby Hero", "The Little Dog Laughed" (NY), "Twenty50" (World Premiere at Denver Center for the Performing Arts) & originating the role of Bug in the world premiere of the now published "Treefall" (LA). Tania is bi-coastal, residing in her hometown Los Angeles, as well as NYC.