Angela Featherstone

Angela Featherstone

Angela Eileen Featherstone (born 3 April 1965) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, and advocate for children in foster care. She was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. Within a year of emancipating herself from foster care at age 17, Featherstone became Canada's top model when her September Flare magazine cover broke all previous records for sales. She quickly expanded upon her success and left for New York, where she signed with the illustrious Click models and later would be one of the first models signed to Next. She would travel the world in the 80s as a top fashion model. For acting, she downplayed her striking features to play unlikely roles, emerging as a versatile actress. She is best known for playing the Maid on Seinfeld, Chloe in Friends, and Robbie's fiancée Linda in The Wedding Singer. Most recently, she played the role of Maggie on Showtime's Ray Donovan and Jame on HBO's Girls. Featherstone has created sitcoms for Sony, DreamWorks, and NBC television and has written nonfiction for Time, Jane, Flare, Huffington Post, Dame, and Zoomer. Her essay about childhood trauma, "God Said No", was published in the 2014 edition of Gargoyle magazine and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In 2021, she published the essay "Forgiveness" in Dame magazine. An alumnus of UCLA Extension Writer's Program "Personal Essay & Memoir," she is completing her memoir. In 2022, Featherstone began directing with her debut seven-minute film, L'Étranger. As a director, she combines into a movement of aesthetic bliss her years of experience in fashion as a model, working with important photographers and magazines (such as Italian, French, and American Vogue; Mademoiselle; Seventeen; Sassy; Harper's Bazaar Italia; Grazia; Harpers & Queens; Albert Watson; Bruce Weber; & Irving Penn), her love of cinema and decades in the film industry, a refined sense of story as an oft published essayist, her passion for philosophy, and a love of creating safe spaces for collaboration. Featherstone, a committed advocate for children in foster care, volunteered with the Children's Action Network, curating their Heart Gallery from 2011 to 2019, and served on their Winter Wonderland committee in 2014 and 2015. She also mentored a child in foster care through Kidsave from 2011 to 2020. She has described suffering physical, emotional, and sexual abuse when she herself was a foster child. In 2021, she founded the nonprofit healing school for youth aging out of foster care, Fosteringcare.org. Through this trauma-healing intensive and healing-trade program, she and the founding board members hope to impact the brutal statistics for this extraordinarily vulnerable demographic. In 2014, she lectured at the ICAN Nexus Conference on Violence Within the Home and its Effects on Children. She continues to lecture and write about healing PTSD, child abuse, human trafficking, and intimacy. Her 2015 essay on child sex trafficking for DAME was picked up by Salon.com and MSN and was read by over seven million viewers. Since 2009, she has studied moral and spiritual psychology with Rabbi Mordecai Finley, Ph.D. She served as a consultant on Cracked Up, a Netflix documentary about the effects and healing of trauma

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Filmography

2025

The Devil Inside Her
The Devil Inside Her
as Veronica (archive footage)
Movie - Released: 1/1/2025

2023

Carnage Collection: Forbidden Freaks
Carnage Collection: Forbidden Freaks
as Veronica (archive footage)
Movie - Released: 4/8/2023
Troublée
Troublée
Movie - Released: 1/29/2023

2016

My Dead Boyfriend
My Dead Boyfriend
as Norma
Movie - Released: 11/3/2016

2015

Medieval Times: The Making of Army of Darkness
Medieval Times: The Making of Army of Darkness
as Self
Movie - Released: 10/27/2015

2010

Beneath the Dark
Beneath the Dark
as Sandy
Movie - Released: 11/5/2010

2008

What Doesn't Kill You
What Doesn't Kill You
as Katie
Movie - Released: 12/12/2008
The Mentalist
The Mentalist
as Rocket
TV - Released: 9/23/2008

2007

Exes & Ohs
Exes & Ohs
as Kris
TV - Released: 10/8/2007

2006

Caved In: Prehistoric Terror
Caved In: Prehistoric Terror
as Samantha Palmer
Movie - Released: 1/7/2006
Mother
Mother
as Carolyn
Movie - Released: 1/1/2006

2004

Tomb of Terror
Tomb of Terror
as Veronica
Movie - Released: 4/1/2004

2003

Reeseville
Reeseville
as Judith Meyers
Movie - Released: 3/7/2003

2002

Federal Protection
Federal Protection
as Leigh Kirkindall
Movie - Released: 3/15/2002
One Way Out
One Way Out
as Gwen Buckley
Movie - Released: 2/1/2002
Pressure
Pressure
as Amber
Movie - Released: 2/20/2002
The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone
as Kate Graham
TV - Released: 9/18/2002

2001

Soul Survivors
Soul Survivors
as Raven
Movie - Released: 9/6/2001
The Guardian
The Guardian
TV - Released: 9/25/2001

2000

Takedown
Takedown
as Julia
Movie - Released: 3/15/2000
The Guilty
The Guilty
as Tanya Duncan
Movie - Released: 6/1/2000
Ivansxtc
Ivansxtc
as Amanda Hill
Movie - Released: 9/12/2000
Skipped Parts
Skipped Parts
as Delores
Movie - Released: 6/6/2000

1999

200 Cigarettes
200 Cigarettes
as Caitlyn
Movie - Released: 2/26/1999
Jack & Jill
Jack & Jill
TV - Released: 9/26/1999
Providence
Providence
as Andi Paulsen
TV - Released: 1/8/1999

1998

The Wedding Singer
The Wedding Singer
as Linda
Movie - Released: 2/13/1998
Zero Effect
Zero Effect
as Jess
Movie - Released: 1/30/1998

1997

Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
as Jackie Fein
Movie - Released: 2/2/1997
Con Air
Con Air
as Ginny
Movie - Released: 6/5/1997
Cracker
Cracker
as Detective Hannah Tyler
TV - Released: 9/18/1997

1996

Illtown
Illtown
as Lilly
Movie - Released: 7/9/1996
The Pompatus of Love
The Pompatus of Love
as Times Square Kisser
Movie - Released: 7/26/1996

1995

Family of Cops
Family of Cops
as Jackie Fein
Movie - Released: 11/26/1995

1994

Dark Angel: The Ascent
Dark Angel: The Ascent
as Veronica
Movie - Released: 8/31/1994
Friends
Friends
as Chloe
TV - Released: 9/22/1994
New York Undercover
New York Undercover
as Angela Mancini
TV - Released: 9/8/1994

1992

Army of Darkness
Army of Darkness
as Girl in S-Mart (uncredited)
Movie - Released: 10/31/1992

1990

Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure
as Carla
TV - Released: 7/12/1990

1989

Seinfeld
Seinfeld
as Cindy
TV - Released: 7/5/1989
The Kids in the Hall
The Kids in the Hall
as Strip Club On-Looker
TV - Released: 10/24/1989

1988

Frantic
Frantic
as Extra (uncredited)
Movie - Released: 2/19/1988