Elissa Dowling
Known For: Acting
Biography
The desire to perform came early for Elissa Dowling, by age 8 she was dancing in the NYC Ballet Company's "The Nutcracker". At age 11 she was invited to tour with an improv troop where she gained valuable experience in the art of ad lib. By 13 she had already starred in stage productions including "Little Shop of Horrors" and had her television debut as the notorious lips singing the opening theme song from "Rocky Horror Picture Show". The transition from stage to screen has worked well for Elissa whose expansive acting range has already landed her unique and diverse movie roles such as a transvestite bartender, an attorney, a serial killer, even a gothic dominatrix from New York. Her skills as a character actress have afforded her film performances so intense that she is almost completely unrecognizable. Several of the films she has starred in have been lined up with Lions Gate distribution and she has also achieved a recognized body of work within the independent movie circuit.
Filmography
2026
- Special Op: Rent-a-Cop as Mother
2025
- Ouija: A New Beginning as Molly Price
2024
- The Devil’s Trap
- Conjuring the Cult as Michelle Bryson
- Barbie & Kendra Crash Joe Bob's Drive-In Jamboree! as (voice)
- American Trash as Linda
- An American Masquerade as Indiana Union
- Portraits as Lauren
2023
- Bloodthirst as Elena Thompson
- Kill Dolly Kill as Nurse Graves
- 16 Bits as Alice
2022
- The Most Dangerous Game as Mary
- Night of the Tommyknockers as Mary
- Baby Oopsie 2: Murder Dolls as Ula
- Amber Road as Emma
- Terror Toons 4 as Twin
- The Last Slay Ride as Victoria
- The Sierra Nevada Murders as Jenna Anders
- Clown Motel 2
- The Electric Man as Mrs. Manson
2021
- Axeman at Cutter's Creek as Stacy
2020
- Noirland as Penelope
- Barbie & Kendra Storm Area 51 as Chef Staci (voice)
- Clown Fear as Court Jester
- Children of Camp Blood
2019
- Girl on the Third Floor as Sadie
- It Wants Blood! as Mrs. Vanderpool
- Automation as Jenny
- 3 Bears Christmas as Madame Rosa
- Rootwood as Jessica
- Camp Blood Kills as (archive footage)
2018
- The Body as Party Coke Girl (uncredited)
- Death House as Doctor Rowena
- Limelight as Starla
- Hell's Kitty as Jaimie Screech Curtis
- Ghost of Camp Blood as Woman in Flashback
- Lake of Shadows as Ellen Colby
2017
- The Black Room as Terry
- Party Bus To Hell as Cult Member Sect
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Maude
- Spreading Darkness as Misty Kroeben
- Bonejangles as Rowena
- Dracula in a Women's Prison as Perez
- The Last Revenant as Tiffany
- Fetish Factory as Bible Thumper
- Land Shark as Candy
2016
- Don't Kill It as Sexy Demon
- It Watches as Victim
- Beach Massacre at Kill Devil Hills as Samantha
2015
- Tales of Halloween as Velma
- We Are Still Here as Eloise Dagmar
- Whispers
- Werewolves in Heat as Zooey
- Exquisite Corpse as Katie
2014
- Starry Eyes as Taters Girl 3
- Disciples as Rhiannon
- Shhhh as Lesbian Vampire #2
2013
- Cheap Thrills as Tweaker
- Axeman at Cutter's Creek as Stacy
- Telephone World as Rachel Plasky
2012
- Adventures Into the Woods: A Sexy Musical as Wicked Witch
- Deadly Presence as Jennifer
- Bloody Bloody Bible Camp as Betty
- A Night of Nightmares as Ginger
- I Heart Monster Movies as Self
- Waiting for Dracula
- Aaron's House as Jenna
- The Locals as Lynn Sue
2011
- Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven as Ultra Vixen
- Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Skin City as Paula
- The Theatre Bizarre as Subs
- Abolition as Mia
- Psychosomatika as Persephone
- Peeping Blog as Jane Doe
- The Corporate Cutthroat Massacre as New Girl
- Luther’s Magic Weed as Vanessa
- Raymond Did It as Paige
2010
- His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th as Scream Queen
- Orgy of the Damned as Veronica
- Dahmer vs. Gacy as Jezebel
- Welcome to my Darkside: Women in Horror as Self
- Ludlow as Maddy
- The Book of Zombie as Henrietta
2009
- Dread as Tamsin Kendall
- Nightstalker as Heather
- Samurai Priest Vampire Hunter as Goldstreeter
- Crustacean as Thumper Stain
- Absolute Evil as Lillie McCane
- Thirsty as Legs
- In a Spiral State as Honey
- She Alien as Tamara
2008
- Death Racers as Daisy
- The Legend of Bloody Mary as Mary Winters
- Diary of a Serial Killer as Kat
- O.C. Babes and the Slasher of Zombietown as Madison
- Son Of Sam as Brenda Klein
- Aliens Gone Wild as Alien
2007
- Mummy Maniac as Jennifer
- Borderline Cult as Melanie
- Transmorphers as Dr. Taddish
- The Tomb as Girlfriend
- Cold Blood Canyon as Stephanie Halstead
2006
- The Raven as Victim
- Dracula's Curse as Pure Blood
- Black Dahlia as Kate