Mara New

Mara New

Born: April 29, 1963
in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Born in Milan, Italy and hailing from the Beltrami House of Fashion that was launched in the early 1900's, Mara's family began as tailors and shoemakers and evolved into clothing designers and manufacturers in the early 1920's. To day the House of Beltrami is still active in Italy. In 2004, Mara's passion for clothes had her start the Golden Needle Awards to recognize and award emerging designers.

Moving from Italy to France, From France to Australia where she graduated in Architecture and Studied Acting at "Karnak Playhouse" in Mossman, Queensland, Australia with Diane Cilento and dance with Roger Hazel, at the American Dance and Musical Theater Academy in Brisbane. Mara Appeared in many live shows and television productions during her stay in Australia.

Moving to Canada to join a new Dance Group and being sidetracked into radio with her own Radio Show, she took a position with MTV (Multicultural Television) in Toronto, and during her stay in Canada, after seeing the Liberace show; she became friends with his protégée Marco Valenti who later became her brother in law. For two years she booked Marco Valenti on several national tours and got the title as "Road Manager" with the Liberace Show.

She is an accomplished Painter having won several European Competitions and she had the privileged to meet Pablo Picasso with her mentor Huala Dio whom she became good friends after she was one of the judges at the Pro Loco Painting Competition.

Mara and her husband are involved in producing CD's for Jazz/Blues Artist Barbara Morrison and recently promoted the "LA Blues Festival" with great success and with the great international recording star Asha Puthli.

She is busy with her Internet TV show called "Boutique Discovery" and the hit TV series "Swedish Hollywood Wives" and acting roles in several major movie productions.

Movies for Mara New...

Between Us
Title: Between Us
Character: Bridesmaid
Released: September 13, 2012
Type: Movie
A New York couple and their Midwestern friends find that drastic changes have occurred in their respective lives since they last met.
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Night Club
Title: Night Club
Character: Muriel
Released: April 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Three friends - aided by one of the residents - start a night club in a retirement home, after taking a job there working the night shift to put themselves through USC.
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Title: Svenska Hollywoodfruar
Character: Herself
Released: September 15, 2009
Type: TV
Svenska Hollywoodfruar is a Swedish reality television program on TV3. The concept of the series revolves around the pursuit of the lives of some Swedish women living a glamorous Hollywood lifestyle with their rich American husbands. The 2009 season of the series, which aired on TV3, consisted of five parts. The first episode aired on 14 September 2009 and was watched by approximately 600,000 viewers.
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Charlie Wilson's War
Title: Charlie Wilson's War
Character: Extra (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 2007
Type: Movie
The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.