- Born
- Nicknames
- Ren Aranda
- Renny Aranda
- Height5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
- Six-time acting award winner, international producer and casting director, Rene Michelle Aranda, was born in Whittier, California on December 6, 1990 and raised in the nearby city of Chino Hills. While multi-racial, her major DNA breakdown is two-fifths Indigenous American/East Asian, one-fifth Spanish/Portuguese/Southern European, and one-tenth or less British, Irish, French, German, Sub-Saharan & Trace African, Ashkenazi Jew and more.
Aranda won notoriety for Best Acting Ensemble for Blursday (Panamanian International Film Festival - 2021), Best Feature Film Comedy for Emily or Oscar (Santa Clarita International Film Festival - 2021), the Rising Star Industry Award (Silver Screen Film Festival - 2019), Best Actress (Silverstate Film Festival - 2018), Best Supporting Actress (LA Edge Film Awards - 2018), Outstanding Performance by an Actress (Kennedy Center ACT Festival - 2012) and finished as a semifinalist in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Center's Irene Ryan scholarship program (Washington D.C. - 2011).
Aranda is an LACC Theater Academy alum that has been featured & mentioned in, on and by (respectively) Voyage LA, BuzzFeed Community, News Shooter, Miss In The Biz, Forbes, Variety, Wikipedia, Screen Rant, News Break and Broadway World. Her work has been distributed by the likes of Netflix, Paramount+, Amazon, Tubi, Lifetime, Syfy, Starz, Discovery I.D., Cinelatino, Walmart, Redbox, iTunes, YouTube and in movie theaters across the U.S. She has also appeared in music video cameo roles for YG, ScHoolboy Q, Dax, Guy Tang, Quin, Patrick Nuo, Julia Nunes and Bobo Norco, and is recognized in the vlogging community as the sister to YouTube celebrity Michael Aranda. Her original music can be found on streaming platforms across the web and her pop single "For the Haters" is featured in the film Boris and the Bomb.
Aranda's pursuit of an Entertainment Industry career began in 2003 at an Introduction to the Theater class at Robert O. Townsend Junior High School at the age of 12. She graduated Ruben S. Ayala High School in the class of 2009 with over a dozen awards from the school's drama department, including two-time 'Most Inspirational' and two-time 'Actor of the Year', as well as the first 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in the history of the school's program; It was founded in her honor. The Thespian Arts Theatre Festival she founded her senior year continues annually at the high school and inspired other departments campus-wide to celebrate talent shows of their own.
In the Fall following her high school graduation, Ren moved to Los Angeles to attend the 3-year, audition-only conservatory, the LACC Theatre Academy. The Academy's other notable alumni include Morgan Freeman, Mark Hamill, Cindy Williams and Donna Reed. It was during Aranda's attendance there that she won National recognition and was presented with the 1st annual "Outstanding Performance by an Actress" award at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. She was recognized again for this role in BuzzFeed Community's article, "17 Trail-Blazing Bald Beauties In Hollywood", amongst Persis Khambatta, Angelina Jolie, Elliot Page and more.
She founded the production company Starpark Studios in 2008, making it an LLC in 2013.
- IMDb mini biography by: Starpark Studios
- Race / EthnicityHispanic / Latino / Latina / Latine, Indigenous, White
- She is a 38.2% Native American.
- Landed a lead role in The Pain Killers (2013) after crashing an audition for one of the male characters.
- The ring Rene wears everyday was her inherited from her mother as a reminder of the pact they made to never give up on their dreams.
- Rene Michelle Aranda and Shahs of Sunset (2012)'s Jessica Parido studied theater together in High School.
- Rene's mother, recording artist Cheryl Aranda, passed away June 27th, 2009 after a seven year battle with breast cancer. Rene was 18 years old.
- The only guilt you carry is the guilt you give yourself.
- "Failure is something that I actually encourage. I say, yeah, make those mistakes 'cause it's like- the "Hot Frying Pan Effect" is almost the best way to gain muscle memory of: 'Well, never do that again 'cause, okay, that didn't work, so..." you know, 'let's try again; let's try it this way.' And yeah, so it's... um, I think, cultivating... Growing pains are just- that's just gonna make you stronger." -Rene Michelle Aranda, guest speaking on Downtown Hell Podcast, Episode 6.
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