Marilyn comes from a Puerto Rican family background born in New York to Jeronimo and Luisa Ghigliotti and and raised in NY, Long Island and New Jersey with two of her siblings, Evelyn and Leonardo, of course there’s a lot of spunk and attitude. This Jersey New Yorican had to learn to survive many moves and many changes in surrounding cultures.
Marilyn got started late when it comes to acting, while going through life changes and decided to at least start to study acting at the Actors Training Institute in Red Bank New Jersey with John Eyd, a member of the Actors Studio in New York, where he brought those same techniques to New Jersey.
After studying for about 2 years, Marilyn then felt confident enough to start auditioning in the community theater circuit in Southern New Jersey, appearing in many classic plays. Being a middle child and after appearing in her first production and standing on that stage where people were actually listening to her words instead of being ignored as most middle children feel, she was hooked. During one of these many plays, is also where she met Brian before the two auditioned and landed their parts in Kevin Smith’s Clerks.
Since moving to LA, Marilyn has worked as a freelance hair and makeup artist as well as keeping busy working both in front and behind the camera with hair and makeup, producing, and anywhere help was needed.
As of 2018, Marilyn will be adding Director and filmmaker to her resume.
