Bree Elise

No dream is too big or far fetched for this Los Angeles native, Bree Elise, born Brianna Elyce De'Canillas. Her family surname dates back to the early 1900s when her family migrated from Spain to the the Philippines and then finally settled to her hometown of Los Angeles, CA in 1918. They then dropped the "De'" from "De'Canillas" to give it more of an Americanized feel. You can say her family lineage is relatively new to the United States. Once Brianna was born, she took her family name change a step further and changed it from Brianna Elyce Canillas to Bree Elise to give it a more simpler ring for branding purposes and a twist of Hollywood's star quality. By the age of 5 everyone was calling her "Bree". During preschool Bree gave a speech in front of her school's auditorium declaring her desire to become a nurse, little did she know a few months later she would forget the premature dream of becoming a nurse and would be found performing in numerous ballet recitals, holiday parades and training to become a professional figure skater. This began Bree's journey as a performance artist. Soon she reached a peak where many people were suggesting she become home-schooled and begin training for the Junior Olympics. Although she spent the majority of her time baton twirling, ice skating and training in dance studios she still had a passion for school and education. She decided to spend less time in the arts and focus her studies in school to becoming a meteorologist or archaeologist. By time Bree entered high-school she still was engaged in her performance arts on the weekends and enrolled in drama class as an elective during the week. One of her classmates then asked if she wanted to audition for a paid gig on an MTV Show. Bree could not refuse the offer! This role she landed and then began a domino effect for her on-camera entertainment career, landing gig after gig as a dancer, actor and spoken word artist. Bree saw this as a great avenue for capitalization and making money while having fun. Since then she has worked for companies such as "Coca Cola", "Ecko Red", "21st Century FOX", "CW", "Warner Brothers", "Jimmy Choo", "BET", "Helmut Lang", "Phillip Lim", "Tri Destined Studios", "Oprah", "TiSA Vision", "James Perse"; and has worked with celebrities such as Kerry Washington, Naya Rivera, Ashton Kutcher, Eddie Murphy, Aubrey "Drake" Graham, Tika Sumpter and many more to say the least. Being pulled on the battle of her more economical dreams to becoming a meteorologist, archaeologist and later a historian; and then on the flip-side being centrally located in the heart of Hollywood and somehow accumulating friends who all also worked within in the entertainment business, she consistently, easily and more conveniently found herself working in front of or behind the cameras of a movie, editorial and/or TV production. Since then she has landed the attention of many agents, producers, writers, and directors who all encourage she stick to her natural path of working in the entertainment business. She honed her crafts and took their feedback to heart by sharpening her natural talents to detailing the technicalities with the masters of her skills. Starting first with fashion at "Fashion Institute NYC", second with the improv greats at "The Groundlings" in Hollywood, third, the highly sought after acting coach of Brad Pitt, Vil Kilmer, Salma Hayek, Tori Spelling, and Diana Ross (to name a few) "Howard Fine" at "The Howard Fine Conservatory", fourth with the well know casting director workshops by Craig Campobasso and last but not least she also studied alongside the undefeated dance talents Darrin Henson, Gene Anthony Ray and Wade Robson (to name a few) at the Edge Performing Arts Center and the Millennium Dance Complex in Hollywood. Also to mention, she attended the Archer School for Girls in Brentwood, CA alongside many high ranking celebrity's children, graduated high-school with a 4.0, attended Santa Monica College with the intents on transferring to the Harvard School of Divinity, completed cosmetology school, contributes her time annually to a charity called "HOPE Worldwide", and last but not least completed two externships working as an assistant recording engineer and Publicist to Celine Dione (under the senior Publicist Jacqui Chazen) and many other well known musical acts.