- Born
- Birth nameCynthia Marie Dallas
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Cynthia Dallas was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Although she did not study acting formally prior to pursuing a professional career, she has been a working actor since 2007. Cynthia earned a full athletic scholarship for basketball to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she was a four-year starter and held several school and conference records. However, after a series of knee injuries ended a budding career in the WNBA, she made the move to Los Angeles.
Cynthia has worked in commercials, theater, television, and film, and has gone on to write, direct, and produce her own short films.
Cynthia has done her own stunts on several TV and film projects.
She is of African-American, Irish, German, and Native-American descent.
Worked as the assistant girls' basketball varsity coach at Burbank High School for five seasons and at Campbell Hall for one season.
Member of the 2-Year Full Time Actor Programme's graduating Class of 2019 at the prestigious Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland.
- IMDb mini biography by: Cynthia Dallas
- Her muscular physique
- Inducted into the Pittsburgh City League (2014), Western Pennsylvania (2022), Pittsburgh Basketball Club (2023) Sports Hall of Fame.
- In 2004, Cynthia was drafted 21st overall to the WNBA with the San Antonio Silver Stars.
- Wrote and performed her one woman show, "Almost 40 & Single," at the 2020 Scene & Heard Festival in Dublin, Ireland. In November 2022, Cynthia performed a more robust version of the show at The Hollywood Complex in Los Angeles.
- Played Bessie Coleman, the first female African-American pilot, in the Pittsburgh CLO's musical tour Gallery of Heroes: Pioneers of Flight.
- Member of the Arcade Comedy Theater house team, Jump Button, in addition to Bipocalypse and The Latchkey Kids (Voted Pittsburgh's Best Improv Team in 2022 and 2023).
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