Juliette Fairley Biography

Actress Juliette Fairley was discovered by Spike Lee in 2007 when she was hired to play a guest star role in Mayor of New York (M.O.N.Y), a tv pilot commissioned by NBC.

Prior to booking her breakthrough role, Juliette Fairley hosted Cha Ching Money Makers, a tv show that aired on the Discovery Channel. The French born actress lives in New York City and travels around the country performing her one-woman show The Mulatto Series. A candidate for a Beverly Hills Hollywood NAACP Theatre Award nomination in 2010, Miss Fairley won the African American Playwright's Exchange Award for Best Actress in 2008. Never one to rest on her laurels, Juliette has acted in more than 20 film and tv projects that have been screened at various festivals including the Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival, Atlanta's Urban Media Makers Film Festival, the Poconos International Film Festival, the NYU Film Festival and the Hollywood Black Film Festival. Miss Fairley plays the therapist in the new series Hey Diddle Diddle on satellite television.

Juliette Fairley studied comedy, improv and dramatic acting with legendary acting teachers Susan Batson, Wynn Handman and at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.

Born in France to an African American father and French Caucasian mother, the Columbia University graduate has been featured in Backstage, the California Crusader, the New York Beacon, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Variety, LA Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News as well as CNN Headline News and many other publications.

Fluent in French, Juliette Fairley is also the author of Cash in the City: Affording Martinis, Manolos and Manicures on a Working Girl's Salary (John Wiley & Sons).

Juliette Fairley Topics

• The Mulatto Series
  A one woman show discussing mixed marriages and bi-racial identity. Part one of the Mulatto Series looks at the poignant love story of an Afro American G.I. and his French Caucasian bride during World War II. Juxtaposing the Jim Crow South with the Nazi regime in France, Juliette Fairley portrays more than 6 characters that impact her interracial parents who are still married today. Part two is about a bi-racial woman who lived through the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. She travels through the Jim Crow South to New York and finally to Paris, France where she meets a wealthy French painter. The drama lies in whether she decides to marry him or not. The one woman show is a candidate for a Beverly Hills Hollywood NAACP Theatre Award in 2010, won the African American Playwright's Exchange for Best Actress in 2008 and opened to rave reviews in Southern California. Here's what the California press had to say: "...a much neglected subject."-San Jose Mercury News "Talented."- Downtown Long Beach Gazette "...an assuredly intriguing legacy." –LA Weekly "...a forceful look at interracial marriage." –California Crusader
• 40 is the New 30
  
• Stop Dreaming; Start Prospering
  
• Real Estate
  
• Investing for Women
  
• Entrepreneurship
  
• How to Navigate in the New Spiritual Economy
  
• It’s Never Too Late to Live Your Dreams
  
• Overcoming Underearning