Angela James

Highlights

• Angela Maere is native to nowhere. She was born in Virginia and spent the first 5 years of her life living in Norfolk with her parents and two sisters. During that time she discovered her first true love--the ocean. For that reason, when her parents announced the family was moving to the midwest it didn't bode well with her and she vowed to move back to the east coast. After a brief stint in Illinois and too many cold winters spent in Iowa, at 21 she made good on her promise and moved across the country to North Carolina in her untrustworthy Ford Focus hatchback. Although she doesn't consider it home per say, Iowa is where she got her first taste for acting. She played multiple roles in high school plays and musicals--the highlight of which was when she played the lead role of "Dolly" in the musical "Hello, Dolly!" After high school she was encouraged to go to acting school but she suppressed her desire to do so because she wanted to play it safe. She chose business school instead. After transferring to East Carolina University when she moved to North Carolina, she worked her way through college and graduated with her bachelors in 2016. During that time she got a taste of corporate life and she was not eager to take another bite post-graduation. Instead she followed her life-long dream of travel and with less than 10k in her pocket made her away around the world. She learned about people, how to be truly tenacious, what it means to struggle for a dream (and at points for food), and how it feels once achieved. She started a YouTube channel and that's when she fell in love with filming and entertainment. She managed to make it to 6 continents and knew that once back on her home continent she wouldn't be able to live in a cube. All she wants to do now is act, write, and produce art that inspires people. Though she'll take the odd job to keep a roof over her head. Playing to safe seems like torture to her now, because ultimately, she'd rather chase her dreams that seem impossible to catch rather than run in place on someone else's' treadmill.