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Based in New York City, Jeanene Garro is an ensemble-trained actor working in theater, television, film, voice-over and print. She began her performance career as a professional ballet dancer at The Pennsylvania Ballet, and has been acting since age 14 when she was cast by her Catholic school nuns in the title role of Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliette".
After a stint at the American Repertory Theater as Kate in “The Taming of the Shrew", she arrived in Manhattan where she studied at various studios and landed roles on soaps and in Off Broadway theatre. Garro played a runaway bride in "Brilliant Traces" at The Barrow Group, a war correspondent in "Desert Stormz" at Playwright’s Horizon, and performed her own play, “The Divine Mr. Right” at Ensemble Studio Theater.
Now, in tv, industrials and print, she specializes playing roles in the medical and legal professions as well as utilizing her background in movement as ballet mistress and yoga instructor.
Proficient in mind-body wellness, she’s been a featured expert on The Early Show in the Longevity/Anti-Aging segment as well as instructed the audience in Meditation for Pain Management on the Dr. Oz show.
Garro's ability for voice work and accents has landed her narration gigs on documentaries and industrials recording technical narration, DIY instruction and character performances like voicing “Dr. Choudy” on The History Channel’s powerful film, “444 Days: The Iran Hostage Crisis”.