Adria Tennor
Born: 1970-06-10 in Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Adria began her career as an actress. The grand daughter of Sam Tennor, a song plugger for Irving Berlin, Tennor made her film debut playing a twelve-year old boy in Hal Hartey’s Amateur which premiered in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. She works regularly in television and film, and is most known for her recurring role on AMC’s Mad Men as Betty Draper’s frank-talking friend Joyce Darling, as well as John Goodman’s dutiful if not impish secretary in Michel Hazanavicius’s Academy Award winning film, The Artist. She made her writing debut with StripSearch, her one-woman show based on her studies in pole dancing with Sheila Kelley at her SFactor Studio which played to rave reviews in Los Angeles for over a year and a half. In 2013, Tennor made her foray into producing assisting Doug Blake (The Sessions) on Smothered, a film by John Schneider, where she met Cracked Co-Producer & First AD, David Dwiggins who helped guide her through her directorial debut. Her feature project, Never Been Born, has been selected as one of ten finalists in the Nantucket Film Festival's Tony Cox Screenplay Contest and is in Pre-Production, starring Dale Dickey, Thomas Sadoski and Annika Marks.
Filmography
2025
- Homewrecker as Jen
2023
- Resurrected as One Life Activist #2
- A Snowy Day in Oakland as Olivia
2021
- One Moment as Caroline Minogue
2020
- Psychos & Socios as Leslie
- Cabane à sang as Self
2018
- For The People as Susan Womack
- All We Are ... (First Assistant Director)
- Pie as Carol
2017
- S.W.A.T. as Jackie
- Newly Single as Waitress
2016
- Smothered as Mom
- Bad Moms as Conservative Mom
- Friday Night as Claire
2015
- Zoo as Ginny
- The D Train as Classmate - Wendy
2012
- Scandal as Brenda Swan
- The Mindy Project as Gate Agent
- Incident on Marmont Avenue as Daphne
2011
- Harry's Law as Vivian
- The Artist as Zimmer's Assistant
2009
- You as Hostile Witness
2008
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan as Kids' Salon Owner
- Gary Unmarried as Waitress
2007
- Mad Men as Joyce Darling
- Private Practice as Dr. Berman
- Greek as Professor Clarissa Hawn
- Judy's Got a Gun as Donna Kenzo
2005
- Criminal Minds as Diane Goehring
- Headhunter
2003
- NCIS as Angela Dresser
2002
- Monk as Donna DiMarco
2001
- Crossing Jordan as Denice
1998
- I'm Losing You as Assistant Director
1996
- The First Wives Club as Young Annie
1995
1994
- Friends as Katherine
- Touched by an Angel as Ruby Rice
- Amateur as Kid reading 'The Odyssey'
1993
- Boy Meets World as Teri
1991
- Step by Step as Candi