Biographie
Hedley Harlan is an American actor and writer known for playing vixens, rockers and lunatics with a gleeful and almost wholesome feel. She first graced the screen as a young teenager in Natasha Bedingfield's music video, Unwritten directed by Chris Applebaum. She wrote a slew of horror and comedy scripts in her teens and twenties, eventually stepping in as an actress in Smash the Kitty alongside Jason Ritter.
Growing up between New Jersey and New York, where she sang opera and danced and Ohio, where she skateboarded and was often suspended from school, Hedley became adept at living parallel lives which drew her to writing and film.
After landing the Beddingfield music video in Los Angeles, Hedley started working for Film Fanatics under the helm of director and producer Franz Harland. She spent the next five years with the Film Fanatics team, covering film festivals in Havana, Prague, Rome and Cannes and learning about the film industry.
Back in New York, Hedley began to put equal focus into acting and writing, appearing in a string of television and film roles and producing her own work. Her follow up to Smash the Kitty was Late Lunch, which she co-directed with her longtime manager, Ben Padua. Late Lunch was a cannibalistic family affair, starring her step-father, Charlie Sloin and director Paul Thomas Anderson's mother, Edwina Anderson.
Last year, Hedley started Harlan Shaw productions with husband and fellow actor, Ryan M. Shaw. Their pilot project was the diabolical horror romp, Mincemeat Manor, which they co-directed. They also play together in a band of the same name, Harlan Shaw.
Hedley is a proficient singer, dancer piano player and guitarist. Her first music project was half of the cover duo known as Kitty Fishinger, under which she recorded songs for film television and other nefarious uses.
Hedley has also garnished a following for her unusual mode of transportation between gigs. She, her husband and their pet coyote, live on an off-grid, solar-powered school bus, traveling from shoot to shoot and gig to gig.
