- Dawn earned her B.S. in Theatre Performance from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIU-E) and has been a proud Equity member since 1987. Early in her career she worked in St. Louis and Chicago markets where she earned her AFTRA, AEA, and SAG union cards. Dawn moved to Los Angeles in 1996 which began a seventeen-year television acting career which includes six pilots, three series regular gigs and over twenty-five guest star appearances. Her highlights include: a series regular on Viper, 413 Hope Street, Starhunter and Nobody -a recurring role on the Young and the Restless and notable guest star appearances including: Star Trek: Enterprise, Ally McBeal, Profiler, Beverly Hills 90210, Profiler, and True Blood. A few of her favorite guest stars include working with Damon Wayans on My Wife and Kids, Steve Harvey on the Steve Harvey Show, Wanda Sykes on Wanda at Large and Monique on The Parkers. Her film credits include: The Fugitive and Original Gangstas. On the professional stage, some of Dawn's favorite stage roles performed have been: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Paulina A Winter's Tale, Goneril in King Lear and now Margaret of Anjou in a Shakespeare adaptation she co-wrote with Stephan Wolfert called She-Wolf.
Dawn is most proud of her role as COO of the 501-c3, De-Cruit, the only veteran created, interdisciplinary, strengths-based, scientifically validated theater-based program in the country that supports military veterans by treating traumatic stress and associated problems encountered by veterans as they navigate the transition from military life to civilian life. The treatment program is designed specifically to address the range of military, pre-military and post-military traumas that veterans need to work through in order to move forward with their lives.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dawn Stern
- SpouseStephan Wolfert(April 1, 2008 - present)
- She is COO of De-Cruit, a non-profit she runs with her husband, Army veteran Stephan Wolfert https://www.decruit.org/.
- Former "Star Search" champion
- Grew up in O'Fallon, Illinois.
- Former finalist for Revelon's Most Unforgettable Women campaign.
- Owns a purple Honda Shadow 600cc motorcycle named Cleo.
- On her mixed parentage: "My mother is Scottish Norwegian, my father was most likely Creole - there was a lot of mixing: Native American, French, African."
- On being a 'love child': "My story is something that would rival anything you see on daytime dramas."
- On feeling like an 'outsider' growing up: "When you're torn between trying to fit in and knowing you don't and never will, but not knowing how to be comfortable on the outside."
- On knowing early on she wanted to act: Even at the age of three I just knew. When I first saw other children on television I told my mother that I could do that before I knew the word actor. And the first time I got a laugh on stage, I was filled with an overwhelming sensation that this, at last, was where I belonged.
- On science fiction shows and female characters: "I was excited to finally be allowed to step outside the pretty girl roles and play a woman who is as much a tomboy as I am."
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