Erica Juliet

Erica Juliet is an international actress, writer and model. She was born in the city of Los Angeles with French, Irish, English, and Swedish, Filipino and Spanish ancestry. Erica dreamed of being a doctor as she excelled in school with gifted classes and was very athletic growing up. She started studying martial arts at age five and started to study dance at age 11. In high school she was on the cheer squad, dance team, and track team. Erica became the youngest MAC professional make-up artist at age seventeen and was interviewed by Teen Vogue for having a career in fashion at a young age. She opened the MAC Malibu store and became part of the training and product development team for the company. Fiercely independent, Erica home schooled her senior year in high school as she pursued her passion in "make-up as art" and began to passionately own up to her artist abilities. She supported herself through studying acting in college theatre arts and studied with some of the greatest acting teachers in LA studios from Ivana Chubbuck, Richard Lawson, and Eric Morris. Her first professional modeling job was for Dime Piece Designs and they brought her back to model for their second season which brought attention to her modeling career. She was photographed by world renown photographer Estevan Oriol and her photos with him landed her into modeling agencies and she started to audition and booked many print campaigns, commercials and music videos such as VH1, Apple, Axe, LG, Old Spice, Hot Topic, MTV, Famous Stars and Straps, Dickies Australia, Spike TV, Olympus, Robin Thicke's "Magic" video and Diddy and Donnie "Take You There" etc. She worked with Far East Movement acting in a promotional video shoot for their album and was then personally asked to be the lead actress in their award winning music video 'Like A G6." It was then that Erica become known as "The Girl in The Red Dress" and the video became video of the year. She continued modeling as she gained success and loved that she could play a part and use her acting abilities in her photo shoots depending on what she would shoot for. When Erica got to work with her favorite celebrities that inspired her make-up style such as Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, and Marisa Miller she really felt the inspiration and urge to focus on her entertainment career and move forward from being the girl working so many hours behind the scenes. She flew to Bali to meet agencies overseas and fell in love with her experiences there as she immersed herself in the island lifestyle and culture and quickly became a local supermodel shooting for all of their top designers such as Rip Curl, Indah Clothing, Reef, Dinda Rella, Uluwatu Lace, Religion Clothing, 69Slam, Billibong, Kuta Lines, Surftime, Miss Transworld Surf, and after shooting a fashion spread out for MAXIM magazine the editor loved her photos so much they gave her the cover. She also got the cover of the premier issue of Dream Weddings Bali Style, Freestyle Magazine, DSPORT, Pasmag, and most recently Super Street. Erica moved back to LA to focus on her acting and got her first role in Vin Diesel's "The Ropes " where she played "Juliet" a poet who was unsure of her talent and got a job as a bartender in a New York nightclub. She began to study filmmaking at the Richard Lawson Studios in Studio City where she discovered the writer in herself. She also co-stars in Snoop Dogg's web series "GGN news" as the weather girl "Stormy Fronts" and was requested to make a cameo in the video "Young, Wild and Free." She acted in her first independent film "Mike Case in The Big Kiss Off" as a lead - "Penny, the Femme Fatale." The film went on to win several awards in film festivals including the Hollywood and Vine festival Grand Jury prize. In 2014, Erica wrote and co-produced the short film "Last Call," directed and produced by Angela Robinson Witherspoon, it was a project created by Forgotten Pig Productions, a collective within the Richard Lawson Studios. Many Hollywood TV shows featured her such as "Gang Related," "Bones," "NCIS LA," "90210," "Legit," "Parks and Recreation," "Baby Daddy," "Real Husbands of Hollywood," and "The Comeback." While still modeling and living between Bali, LA and Manila, Erica wrote "Maganda" (Tagolog for Beautiful) and she starred in the web series "Disillusioned" as "Katie" opposite comedian magician Matt Marcy. She had two simultaneous features in August 2015 FHM magazine Philippines and FHM Indonesia. She starred in Rommel Andaya's short film "What You Don't Say" alongside Carlin James and Dante Basco as Erin, which screened at the 2017 Los Angeles Asian Asian Pacific Film Festival. Then, as a writer on the FilAm Creative team, she helped create the short film "The Ones That Get Away," directed by Charles Gray. She played the role of Ava opposite Albert Kong and the short made it into the 2017 International Los Angeles Philippines Film Festival and was nominated by FilAm Creative for Best Short Film, Best Director, and Best Actor. She then wrote, produced and acted in the short film comedy "Baby On The Way" which was just premiered at the Regency Valley Theatre in Los Angeles and hopes to make a good run on the film festival circuit. Trivia : Erica is an Irish descendant from the Hatfield family from the infamous American Hatfields and McCoys feud.