Eleanore Pienta
Acting
Biography
Eleanore Pienta is an American screen and stage actress, comedienne, dancer and filmmaker. Weaving in and out of the independent low-budget US film circuit, Pienta has carved out a niche for herself by portraying uncompromising and complex characters, her presence on screen is at once alluring albeit menacing.
Known For
Damsel
Eight-year-old Cal desperately craves attention from her childish father, and is prone to running away. John is a lonely widower whose life is filled with fear. When they meet one weekend in the shining woods of New England, their lives change forever.
The French Italian
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play starring their nemesis.
Broad City
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
Hair Wolf
The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
A Maine Movie
A group of mismatched friends spend a weekend together in Maine.
Important Police Shit
A group of police cadets are mercilessly hazed as they suffer through the worst day of their training, their hell day.
A Different Man
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.
Kendra and Beth
A dark comedy about the only female employee in the warehouse of a sausage company who forms an unlikely bond with a stranger that throws both their lives into disarray, leaving them forever changed.
I Turn to Jello
A metropolitan nightmare unfurls as a nervous cellist (Eleanore Pienta) cracks under pressure at an audition—and again, and again, and ... (courtesy of Film Society of Lincoln Center).
Soft & Quiet
Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.
Filmography
as Kerry
as Claudia
as Sadie
as Stylish Lady
as Marjorie
as Kendra
as Eleanore
as Forchet
as Self
as Molly
as Ada
as Nora
as Ellie
as Darcy
as Tonya
as Susan
as Jessica
as Jello
as Lupe
as Rosie
as Isabel
as Meg
as Madeline
as Dancer 1
as Anthropologie customer
as Mona
as Megan