- Birth nameAlanna Rose Blair
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Blair Brienza (they/them and he/him) specializes in the unexpected.
You may have seen Blair going in for the kill on Lucifer's Partners 'Til the End (2021) and The Blacklist's The Kazanjian Brothers (No. 156/157) (2020), and teaching a painful lesson in New Amsterdam's Pilot (2018). Dig deeper and you'll find characters like a reptilian bassist (Lower East Asides (2020)), a volatile recovering addict (Spring Street (2017)), and an industry con artist inspired by Marie Castaldo (Even Just). Blair co-wrote and performed in the thriller Prime Matter (2018); shot in 2018, it eerily portrays life mid-evacuation of New York City infected with an airborne contagion.
Blair's stunt career began with doubling, and has progressed to action acting and stunt driving.
Stage projects include "Above Us," a devised two-character rooftop drama (New York Fringe Festival), and "The Waste Land" (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
Blair has taught acting in the School of Film/Video at CalArts, their BFA stomping grounds. They sport additional training from the Michael D. Cohen Acting Studio. New York training includes Apartment 929 with Clark Middleton, The Studio with Brad Calcaterra, and The Barrow Group with Seth Barrish and Lee Brock.
Blair produces and djs dance music as TGR, and supplied vocals and bass guitar in the bands Just Fabulous, Sumpumps, and Sababa.
Find them on Insta: @blair.mov
- IMDb mini biography by: Basssocial
- Walking in their dad's dj footsteps, Blair djs as TGRbass, half of duo TankTop, and the founder of Basssocial. Their djing and acting worlds merged in the webseries Open Door (2012), where they portrayed a dj and scored two scenes.
- Blair is a bassist and singer - previously of riot punk trio Sumpumps, garage-funk-comedy band Sababa Rocksyourfaceoff, and pure rock band Just Fabulous.
- Blair plays piano, mallet percussion, and bass guitar. They learned to play guitar at Strings N Things, Memphis's legendary guitar store.
- While at CalArts, Blair studied poetry and creative writing with Maggie Nelson, Matias Vieneger and Anthony McCann.
- Blair is nonbinary.
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