Mariana Tosca is a producer, actor and social activist. She starred in CHRISTMAS IN THE CLOUDS opposite Graham Greene, M. Emmet Walsh and Wes Studi. Film and television credits include: SUPERSTORE, MASTERS OF SEX, PARENTHOOD, I KNEW A GIRL NAMED HOLLYWOOD, WAR, and THE RITES OF SPRING.

 

She sits on the Board of TheTenDollarClub.org, a nonprofit organization which funds poverty alleviation projects in developing nations.  

 

She serves with Dr. Jane Goodall on the Advisory Council of Save the Chimps, the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary which is home to hundreds of chimpanzees retired from the NASA space program, bio-medical research and the entertainment & pet trades. Other Advisory Boards:  Rex & Friends Charitable Foundation, which provides music education and music therapy to people who are blind and/or autistic, ElephantVoices, a non-profit dedicated to the protection of elephants through conservation, advocacy, research and education, and DreamCatcher Wild Horse & Burro Sanctuary, which takes in previously rounded up and/or adopted wild horses and returns them to their natural wild state within a herd environment.  She founded the Los Angeles Homeless Coalition, which offered shelter, relief and skills training to the homeless population there.

 

Mariana has been a recurring commentator on HuffPost Live and The Point.  She studied Acting at the American Conservatory Theatre, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Alliance Repertory Company and Theatre East.  She served as a campaign advisor for candidates for Governor, Attorney General, State Senate and State Assembly in California, New York, Oregon and Montana.  

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For more information, visit:   www.mtosca.com

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