Bella Dontine

Bella Dontine is an actress, producer, and writer originally from Wilmington, Delaware. Bella began performing in parades and dance at two years of age. She would put on shows for her family when she was 3 years old. When she was 6 years old she joined a church choir and began performing in school theatre performances. At age 9, she earned the lead role of Mary Magdalene in a school Christmas Production of Mary & Joseph. Bella and her two friends formed a singing group when she was 9 years old call CMC. They would put on shows for the neighborhood and charge a dime for people to attend the shows. When Bella and her mother were leaving the movie theatre one day, after seeing Never Been Kissed, Bella couldn't stop talking about Drew Barrymore's acting and that's when her mother realized Bella was looking at it from an acting perspective with no formal training, that Spring Bella's mother put her in every acting workshop and sent her on every audition she could find. By age 11 she was performing in theatre shows around Delaware and Pennsylvania. When she didn't have an acting job she would work behind the scenes of a show doing lighting or crew work. Bella began competitive dancing at age 15, in which she paid for her dance lessons, singing lessons, guitar, and piano lessons with the money she made from working. She performed at Walt Disney World and Planet Hollywood (NYC) by the age of 17. Bella has performed all over most of the east coast. Bella decided to continue her studies and graduated from Wilmington University with a degree in Digital Film Making. She continued working on short films during her studies. Most recently she was Assistant Director and played a 1940's Nurse in a film called Delaware Shore which received critical acclaim in the festival circuit and in its limited release in LA, NYC, and Delaware. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Administrator