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Tanya Memme is an award winning TV Personality, Actress, Host, Executive Producer, and TV Show Creator. As the star of the popular home design show "Sell This House" on A&E and "Smart Home Nation" on FYI, Tanya Memme has become an expert in staging, selling homes, home design and has a passion for smart home technology. The exciting re-boot of "Sell This House" is airing within the Home.Made block on A&E and FYI is a reboot of the original show which aired on sister network A&E from 2003-2011. Sell This House was one of the first shows in the Home Improvement programming genre.
Along side Sell This House, Tanya is creator, executive producer and Host of "Smart Home Nation" which airs on FYI and world wide on Crackle. Tanya travels across the globe discovering the most innovative home technology on the planet.
Born and raised in Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada, she grew up on a 200-acre sod farm in an Italian Catholic family. Tanya is a former Miss World Canada and is involved in the pageant world to this day. Her two brothers, Michael Memme who is now one of the owners of the family home building business Mountainview Homes and Jeremy Memme a Microsoft Executive. Her father, Frank Memme, is a home builder and one of the original founders of Mountainview Homes, and her mother, Beverley Barber, is a known Canadian Artist. Tanya currently lives in Los Angeles with her daughter, Ava.
Some of her past credits include popular shows like "Move This House," "Sell This House Extreme" on A&E, FYI and BIO, as well as Hallmark Channel's "Home & Family" which she was a DIY Expert/ Host for 5 seasons. Robotica (for three seasons on TLC, alongside Ahmet Zappa), 9 On The Town (on KCBS) and on Eye On LA ( Los Angeles's highest-rated magazine show, on KABC). As a television journalist, she was the international correspondent for Entertainment Tonight Canada (Global TV). She covered events such as the Emmys, the Golden Globes, the People's Choice Awards, the SAG Awards and various other high profile movie premieres and red carpet events in NYC, Los Angeles and Toronto.
She spent time in Cambodia reporting for the non-profit organization World Vision Canada, on the severity of child labor & child trafficking. Alongside Alex Trebek, her segments air on Global TV across Canada. She has guest-hosted a variety of TV shows, including: Hollywood 411 (with Chris Harrison for the TV Guide Channel); Reality Remix (on Fox Reality); Live on the Red Carpet (for Warner Brothers/Telepictures) and CBS's Grammy Special, which received an Emmy nomination. She recently filmed Best Vacations in Los Cabos, Mexico with Hunter Ellis (for KTLA's Prime Time Special).
As a celebrity guest, she has been interviewed on many talk shows, including: The View, Soap Talk, Life and Style, The View From The Bay, The Vikki Gabereau Show, Fanny Kiefer, Global TV, Much Music, Breakfast TV, Off The Record and The Mike Bullard Show and has graced the inside and the cover of a variety of magazines such as Style Magazine, In Touch, TV Guide, Womans World, Biography Magazine, Psychology Today, Parade, Life Magazine and VU Magazine to name a few. With a degree from the prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, she has starred on, among other shows, The Practice, JAG, CSI Miami, Saturday Night Live, The Young and the Restless and various independent films. Cast in a lead role in Terror Inside (2008), she won a "Best Actress Crystal Reel Award" from the Florida Motion Picture & Television Association and was awarded a prestigious "CIBA Award" by the Canadian Italian Business Association for her accomplishments and notoriety in Entertainment and Business. She was also the Keynote Speaker for the Niagara College graduating class of 2010, and received an Honorary Diploma in Broadcasting Radio Television & Film.
She is actively involved in helping build wells, homes and communities in Guatemala for the non profit organization. She cycled in a 420-mile bike ride from Montreal, Quebec to Portland, Maine to raise funds for AIDS.
