Tonya Cornelisse saw her birth on March 5, 1981, in the United States. A Leading Man, Lost Time, Yellow, Liminal, Pelé: Birth of a Legend, The Wolves of Savin Hill, and Yellow are just a few of the movies in which Cornelisse appeared.
Buried Child, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and other plays by Cornelisse are performed on stage. The audiobooks from the Hidden Series were also produced by Cornelisse.
Where did Tonya Cornelisse go to college and high school? Did Tonya Cornelisse go to film school?
At the Tisch School of the Performing Arts at New York University, Cornelisse received a BFA in theatre in addition to a degree in psychology.
After that, Cornelisse secured a co-starring part with Riley Keough, Sienna Miller, Melanie Griffith, and Ray Liotta in Nick Cassavetes’ independent comedy-drama film YELLOW, which later competed at TIFF and SXSW and won the audience prize there.
She is a prolific writer in addition to performing; during quarantine alone, she produced two animated projects and two pilots.