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Renée Veronica Freeman is a Liberian-born and American-bred actress and film producer known for her multidisciplinary work in television, film, and voice-over dramas of thrillers and suspense, and on the National and International stages of Broadway musical theatre.
Pulling from her training as a BFA in Music Theatre from Jacksonville University, and 6 years of cumulative studies in the Meisner Technique in New York City and Warner Loughlin Technique in Los Angeles, Renée's engagement with character-driven stories that wrestle with the complexity and nuance of human behavior drives her choices in story-telling. It's this experience that allows her to bring the quiet volatility and facile range of strength that is unique to her grounded and riveting performances.
As the Executive Producer and star of the Sci-Fi short film Chromatography which had its World Premiere at the 2025 Sherman Oaks Film Festival (FILA), Renée explores what it means to be a neurodivergent woman who's brilliance and mental uniqueness are wielded and discarded, while being confronted with the choice to honor herself or her loyalty to her sister and society in timely self-destruction. She was honored with the Filmmakers Award for Outstanding Performance in a Sci-Fi film.
In the privilege of a lifetime, Renée is the narrator of "Rise, Girl, Rise: Our Sister-Friend Journey. Together for All" (Scholastic Audio Books). A children's picture book by American Activist icon Gloria Steinem and Liberian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee, releasing everywhere on Feb 3, 2026.
From 2014 - 2016, Renée portrayed the role of Deloris Van Cartier (originated in film by Whoopi Goldberg, and on Broadway by Patina Miller), in the 2nd National & Intl. Broadway tour of Jerry Zaks Sister Act the Musical and has also appeared in the National & Intl. Broadway tour of Dreamgirls (2013), and as a principal singer with America's official traveling performance group, The USO Show Troupe - honoring the US military and their families.
She is a refugee of the devastating Liberian civil war of 1989, and a US naturalized citizen.
As a tenet to her dreams since childhood, Renée also serves on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit organization, Liberia Forward: a coalition of the Liberian diaspora and like-minded partners who seek to improve the livelihoods and economic success of impoverished and working-class Liberians at home and abroad. This mission is primarily realized by building affordable housing, eliminating food insecurity, and educating to develop future technology, among many additional needed social welfare programs for a nation still enduring the post-traumatic stresses of the civil wars of 1989 and 1999.
