Mariana Klaveno
Mariana Klaveno
Mariana Klavenois an American actress, best known for her television roles as Lorena Ballin HBO series True Blood, as the psychopath Abby in the Lifetime movie While the Children Sleep, and as movie actress Peri Westmore in Lifetime comedy-drama Devious Maids. In 2014, Klaveno starred as detective Janice Lawrence in the CBS crime drama series, Stalker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth25 October 1979
CityEndicott, WA
CountryUnited States of America
I think the trick to playing villains is that you can't play them as if they know that they're villains, otherwise it becomes some sort of mustache-twirling caricature!
I love people who are inches away from completely falling apart. I think that's a fun, electric character to take on.
I'd love to do more TV, but I'd love to get into more feature films. I'd also love to go back to the stage when the time and opportunity is right. I haven't gotten to do a lot of that here in L.A., but my favorite thing to do is live theatre. I'd love to actually have a career where you can kind of move in and out of all of those mediums.
It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way.
There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.
Part of what makes me love acting so much is, I love the mystery of the universe and the human experience, and storytelling is a great way to perform that, and that is always inspiring to me.
A lot of people's lives are built around a healthy lifestyle. I take really good care with what I eat, and exercise obviously has become part of your lifestyle, going to the gym, meeting with your trainer, going to yoga and all those things. As an actor, that's part of your job; it's part of our responsibility to take care of ourselves, in a way.
I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college.
Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.