Debrianna Mansini
Born: 1959-02-09 in U.S.A.
Known For: Acting
Biography
Debrianna Mansini (born Deborah Ann Mansini, 9 February 1959 in the USA) – American actress, writer, and activist of Italian descent, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Trained at Circle in the Square in New York before moving to Santa Fe, where she was a company member of Santa Fe Performing Arts Company for ten years. She is married to filmmaker David Forlano, with whom she has produced award-winning documentary shorts. Her most notable film roles include Ann in Crazy Heart (2009, opposite Jeff Bridges), Paula in The Burning Plain (2008, opposite Charlize Theron), a Flight Attendant in Bordertown (2007, opposite Jennifer Lopez), the Vernon Diner Waitress in Hell or High Water (2016), a Woman in Trailer in Rattlesnake (2019), and Professor Brody in Maggie Moore(s) (2023). On television she is best known for Fran (the diner waitress) in Breaking Bad (2012) and Better Call Saul (2015–2018, 4 episodes), Sandy McGreevy in Messiah (2020), Clarice in The Lying Game (2011), Pam Gray in Longmire (2012), and Dorothy in Manhattan (2014). She is also the creator and star of the one-woman stage show The Meatball Chronicles and co-wrote the web series CYPHERS.
Filmography
2025
- She Rides Shotgun as School Counselor (uncredited)
2023
- Maggie Moore(s) as Professor Brody
2020
- Interrogation as Captain Alexandra Friedman
- Messiah as Sandy McGreevy
2019
- Rattlesnake as Woman in Trailer
2016
- The Girlfriend Experience as Court Clerk
- Hell or High Water as Vernon Diner Waitress
2015
- Better Call Saul as Fran
2014
- Manhattan as Dorothy
- Boys of Abu Ghraib as Carol Farmer
- Drunktown's Finest as Phoebe Smiles
- Persecuted as Agent Rivera
2012
- Longmire as Pam Gray
2011
- The Lying Game as Clarice Boyle
- Surreal Estate as Ms. Pearl
2009
- Crazy Heart as Ann
- The War Boys as Jen
2008
- Breaking Bad as Fran
- In Plain Sight as Betty Thundercloud
- The Burning Plain as Paula
2007
- The Flock as Harriet's Mother
- Bordertown as Flight Attendant
2005
- Wildfire as Anna Rodriguez