Actress Dawna Lee Heising has acted in over 60 feature films, alongside legendary actors such as Eddie Griffin, Tommy Wiseau, Aki Aleong, Danny Trejo, Eric Roberts, Nicolas Turturro, Lorenzo Lamas, Olivia Hussey, Coolio, Mel Novak, Robert Amico, Justin Shenkarow, Manu Intiraymi and many others. She is also the Vice President of Aki Aleong’s Mustard Seed Media Group. Dawna has been awarded by many international film festivals, including Best Shakespearean Actress for “Dark Classics” at the 2019 LANFA Film Festival; Best Actress for her role as Barbie in Dustin Ferguson’s “Nemesis 5: The New Model” at the 2018 LANFA Film Festival; “Actress of the Year” at the 2018 USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame Awards, and Best Supporting Actress for Gregory Blair’s “Garden Party Massacre” at the 2018 Lucky Strike Film Festival.
Dawna is trained in Tang Soo Do martial arts, kickboxing, ballet and pole dancing. She is an accomplished beauty queen, and is a former Miss Los Angeles Chinatown, Ms. World, Ms. Universe, Miss San Francisco Universe, Miss Orange County Universe, Miss California Hemisphere and Mrs. California United States, among many other titles. She was thrilled to be the Queen of the 2019 Hollywood Silver Screen Film Festival. She has a B.S. Degree in Business Management and MBA from Pepperdine University, and her uncle is legendary director Tak Fujimoto. Her cousins David Wong and George Daugherty won a Primetime Emmy Award for their televised Broadway production “Peter and the Wolf”. Dawna is also the executive producer and host of an award-winning television interview show called “Eye on Entertainment”.
Dawna played Skye in John Reign’s heartwarming war drama “Finding Purpose”. She reprised the role of Skye in Reign’s big budget sequel “Finding Purpose: The Road to Redemption”, and legendary actor Aki Aleong portrays her father. “Finding Purpose: The Road to Redemption” is slated to be released to theaters nationwide in 2020. Dawna also performed the challenging Lady Macbeth Scene 5, Act I monologue in Brian Barsuglia’s documentary “A Bard for the Ages: Shakespeare’s Timeless Effect”. Dawna worked on action/martial arts star JJ Stomp’s “IN3DRAGON”, alongside her mentor Aki Aleong.
Dawna recently worked with the great Eddie Griffin, alongside Robert Amico and Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Justin Shenkarow, in Param Gill’s “Bad President”. The big budget film is slated to be released to theaters nationwide just before the 2020 Election. Dawna will also play Pam in “Pizza Shop Madness” this summer. The comedy will be directed by Robert Amico, and Dawna is thrilled to working with Robert, Justin Shenkarow and Manu Intiraymi again!
She is cast as villain Haden Webb in Kevin C. Kellum’s nationally broadcast “Vice Squad Los Angeles” television series from Ascendent Studios. Academy award-winner Chris Tashima is a part of the “Vice Squad” franchise on the production end so the series is sure to be outstanding. Dawna has been cast in the pivotal role of the mysterious Lavender in a’Ali De Sousa’s movie and miniseries “The Bench”, alongside noted character actor Jeff Doucette.
