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Benita Wrenn

Overview

  • Nickname
    • Be
  • Height
    5′ 4″ (1.63 m)

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  • Be Wrenn was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Be started studying Theater and Dance at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), after graduating with performance honors for theater, singing, and dancing at every level from elementary, middle and high school. Be also trained as a writer and critic with the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Theater Journalism & Advocacy and a founding Chairperson for the UAB Film Club.

    Be is a motherless mother of two daughters and the thirteenth child of her late parents. At two years old, Be started a lifelong battle with trauma, after witnessing her mother's sudden death, at 49 years old. Taking care of her father's ailing health, as a teen, Be's older sister Glo and Be, became caregivers to their father. Be promised her father that she'd return to college. It took 2 decades. Yet, Be returned to college and earned a Bachelor's degree in broadcasting/journalism, graduating with honors from UAB. Be's honors thesis documentary film explored the correlation between discipline versus damage in the family. Be surveyed hundreds of imprisoned violent offenders in the Alabama Department of Corrections.

    Be has creatively contributed to various media genres: Film, Television, Local News, Newspaper, Poetry, Narrative, Fiction, Screenplays and Theater. Be is an award-winning filmmaker, published poet and journalist.

    Be is a Journalism and Creative Media master's student at the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences. By: Reely Publications
    - IMDb mini biography by: Reely Publications

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    Female
  • Pronouns
    she/her
  • Sexual orientation
    Straight
  • Race / Ethnicity
    Black / African American

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