Biography

Ally Warren was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her first acting part was as the Partridge in a Pear Tree in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" in grade one at Cedar Park Elementary School, in Pointe Claire, Quebec.

She studied acting formally with a variety of different teachers in a variety of different methods (or styles) including Master Classes in American Film Acting with Jeff Corey and the Stanislavski Method with Aleksey Batalov from the Moscow Art Theater. She attended the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the BA/BFA acting programs; with a strong base in Shakespeare's "Olde Folio".

At UBC, during Summer Stock, Warren directed the play "The Virtuous Burglar", a Nobel Peace Prize-winning play by Dario Fo, on the Main Stage of the Frederic Wood Theatre with an ensemble cast of 9 actors including herself as the Second Burglar, Fo's cameo role. After graduating from university, Warren coached other actors and helped found the Royal International Film College, as Director of Film Acting Studies. She played "The Steak Broker" in The Food & I (2002), a short film which won Special Jury Prize at Italy's Invideo Film Festival. She won Best Actress at the Persistence of Vision Film Festival for her portrayal of Gail, a cancer patient who goes insane in the short film, The Tumor.

An accomplished equestrienne, Warren had often called upon to wrangle horses and other animals on film sets, both on and off camera. She had been a Vice=President of Horse Council BC and VP/Director or Zone 5 (Vancouver Lower Mainland/Squamish/Pemberton). She sat on the Board for New Stride Thoroughbred Adoption Society and helped to assess, train and place horses into new homes and second careers after racing.

Warren worked with Jonathan Field, one-on-one, transcribed and helped edit the Book The Art of Liberty Training for the Horse. Warren was a natural horsemanship horse trainer and horse whisperer in her own right. She worked as a ringside videographer and photographer filming international and FEI level horses and riders in Grand Prix, Hunter Jumper, Dressage and Eventing for seven years. Her stepmother sits on the Board of the FEI is the founder of the Antigua Barbuda Horse Society and owner of the Antigua Equestrian Centre on the Eastern Caribbean Island of Antigua.
- IMDb mini biography by: AW Frampton