Adria Tennor

Acting

Adria Tennor

Born 1970-06-10 · Royal Oak, Michigan, USA

Adria began her career as an actress. The grand daughter of Sam Tennor, a song plugger for Irving Berlin, Tennor made her film debut playing a twelve-year old boy in Hal Hartey’s Amateur which premiered in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. She works regularly in television and film, and is most known for her recurring role on AMC’s Mad Men as Betty Draper’s frank-talking friend Joyce Darling, as well as John Goodman’s dutiful if not impish secretary in Michel Hazanavicius’s Academy Award winning film, The Artist. She made her writing debut with StripSearch, her one-woman show based on her studies in pole dancing with Sheila Kelley at her SFactor Studio which played to rave reviews in Los Angeles for over a year and a half. In 2013, Tennor made her foray into producing assisting Doug Blake (The Sessions) on Smothered, a film by John Schneider, where she met Cracked Co-Producer & First AD, David Dwiggins who helped guide her through her directorial debut. Her feature project, Never Been Born, has been selected as one of ten finalists in the Nantucket Film Festival's Tony Cox Screenplay Contest and is in Pre-Production, starring Dale Dickey, Thomas Sadoski and Annika Marks.

Acting credits

You Don't Mess with the Zohan poster
5.7

An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

2008

Bad Moms poster
6.5

When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.

Bad Moms

2016

The Artist poster
7.4

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

The Artist

2011

Amateur poster
6.2

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

Amateur

1994

The First Wives Club poster
6.7

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!

The First Wives Club

1996

The D Train poster
4.9

With his 20th reunion looming, Dan can’t shake his high school insecurities. In a misguided mission to prove he’s changed, Dan rekindles a friendship with the popular guy from his class and is left scrambling to protect more than just his reputation when a wild night takes an unexpected turn.

The D Train

2015

One Moment poster
6.1

Middle-age siblings struggle to manage their lives while caring for their recently widowed aging father.

One Moment

2021

Resurrected poster
6.3

In a dystopian future, the Vatican knows how to resurrect people. A priest discovers a conspiracy behind the resurrections and their possible link to a series of murders.

Resurrected

2023

I'm Losing You poster
4.9

Based on Bruce Wagner's best selling novel, "I'm Losing You" is the gripping tale of a wealthy Los Angeles family and their journey from profound loss to love, hope and redemption. On the verge of his 60th birthday, patriarch and TV producer Perry Krohn is diagnosed with inoperable cancer and is told he has only months left to live. He delays telling his thirtysomething children, has-been actor Bertie and adopted daughter Rachel.

I'm Losing You

1998

Friday Night poster
7.0

While visiting her daughter who is studying abroad in France, Claire is thrown into the midst of a city-wide attack. In a place where she doesn't speak the language or know her way around, she's forced to navigate this French metropolis in the dark of night in a desperate search to find her daughter and ensure her safety.

Friday Night

2016

A Snowy Day in Oakland poster
6.8

A Snowy Day in Oakland - A magical urban tale about a beautiful psychologist from San Francisco who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She moves on with her life by opening her own private practice in a vacant, street-front office space in the middle of a small, commercial block located across the bay in Oakland, turning the predominately African-American and psychologically ignored neighborhood on its emotional ear.

A Snowy Day in Oakland

2023

Newly Single poster
3.0

On the heels of booking a life-changing motion picture, a film director drives away his girlfriend and aggressively re-enters the LA dating scene.

Newly Single

2017

Smothered poster
3.6

Five horror icons ditch an unprofitable autograph signing convention to earn some extra cash haunting an RV park, but find themselves being haunted instead.

Smothered

2016

Homewrecker poster
5.0

Megan is devastated when her mom can no longer afford to buy her a house, due to her stepdad's financial troubles. Megan hatches a plan to split them up by using deepfake technology to frame her stepdad for cheating.

Homewrecker

2025

You poster
6.9

You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for both the father and his daughter, You is filled with the magic of life and love and family.

You

2009

Judy's Got a Gun poster
1.0

No synopsis available yet.

Judy's Got a Gun

2007

Psychos & Socios poster
3.0

After his sister's death, a clairvoyant man confronts three of his unhinged, former classmates, to find the truth behind her death.

Psychos & Socios

2020

Ladies' Man: A Made Movie poster
5.8

After a lifetime stuck in the "friend zone", an awkward college freshman enlists the help of his old babysitter, now a campus sorority queen, to teach him how to become the ultimate ladies' man.

Ladies' Man: A Made Movie

2013

Headhunter poster
5.0

Ambitious young go-getter Ben Caruso signs on with sexy corporate headhunter Sarah Tierney. Sarah gets Ben a new job with great pay working the graveyard shift. However, Ben soon discovers that Sarah is a witch and his coworkers are the tormented souls of Sarah's previous conquests. If Ben doesn't find a missing head in a few days, he's in danger of losing his own.

Headhunter

2005

Incident on Marmont Avenue poster
NR

On November 12, 2011 the police were called to an incident at 1701 Marmont Avenue. This film is the story of what happened that night.

Incident on Marmont Avenue

2012

Boys Don't Cry poster
9.0

The original short film that inspired the 1999 version of Boys Don't Cry.

Boys Don't Cry

1995

Pie poster
NR

Carol invites Annette over for homemade pie and after much prodding divulges her special secret and scandalous ingredient.

Pie

2018

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