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Danielle Bisutti

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Danielle Bisutti
Born
Danielle Nicole Bisutti

(1976-10-01) October 1, 1976 (age 48)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materCalifornia State University, Fullerton (BA)
Occupation(s)Actress, singer-songwriter, writer, producer
Years active1997–present
RelativesCristina Ferrare (aunt)

Danielle Nicole Bisutti (born October 1, 1976)[1] is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Amanda Cantwell on the Nickelodeon television series True Jackson, VP and the Norse goddess Freya in the 2018 video game, God of War, for which she received a British Academy Games Award for Performer nomination, and its 2022 sequel, God of War Ragnarök, for which she was nominated for the British Academy Games Award for Performer in a Supporting Role.[2]

Early life

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Bisutti was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Diana (née Ferrare) and Richard Bisutti. Her father was a set decorator in both film and television for 20 years. Her maternal aunt is model Cristina Ferrare. Bisutti is of Italian descent.[3] Bisutti attended California State University, Fullerton, where she received a BA in Acting and Musical Theatre.

Acting career

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While attending university, Bisutti was nominated several times for Best Actress in the Irene Ryan Competition and took the runner-up position at The Lincoln Center Theatre in New York City. Michael Butler noticed Bisutti in the role of Sheila in a California production of Hair and brought the cast to Chicago to perform at the Democratic National Convention along with a five-week run at The New Athenaeum Theatre. Bisutti's other theatre credits include Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Maggie in Boy's Life, Yelena in Uncle Vanya, Victoria/Jane in Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8.30, Fastrada in Pippin, and Ophelia in Hamlet.

Bisutti has performed in television over the years, recurring on Last Man Standing, Parks & Recreation, CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Raising the Bar and The O.C., while also appearing on NCIS, Criminal Minds, Castle, Hot in Cleveland, 90210, Private Practice, Body of Proof, Bones, Cold Case, Two and a Half Men and Boston Legal. She may best known for her starring role as Amanda Cantwell opposite Keke Palmer on the Nickelodeon series True Jackson, VP from 2008 to 2011.

Some of her film credits include Venice Underground, The Neighbor, and No Greater Love. Bisutti co-produced the webseries Hollywood Girl and recurred on the series as Pasha Maneer. She had a leading role in Harland Williams's post-apocalyptic sci-fi webseries The Australian, which was released in late November 2013.[4]

In 2018, Bisutti provided the voice and motion capture for the Witch of the Woods, who is later revealed to be the goddess Freya, in God of War.[5] She received praise for her work and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Performance in a Video Game at the 15th British Academy Games Awards[6] but lost to her co-star Jeremy Davies.[7]

In 2022, Bisutti provided the voice of Elsa from the 2013 Disney animated feature film Frozen while Idina Menzel was unavailable in Disney Dreamlight Valley.

Singing career

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Songs originally written by Bisutti, such as "Venice Underground", "April Moon", and "In the Presence of", have been used in independent feature films. At the 2003 Los Angeles Music Awards,[8][9] she won the award for "Best Female Singer-Songwriter". Also at this ceremony, her song "Glimmer" was nominated for "AAA Album of the Year," and her song "In Passing" received the Unanimous Choice Recipient Award for "Independent AC Single of the Year". In September 2004, Bisutti performed at the Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival, where "In Passing" was selected for the TVIFF's "Top Musical Artist Compilation CD" and Music Connection Magazine featured Bisutti in its 2004 "Hot 100 Unsigned Artists" list.[10]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2001 Automatic Morgan Black
Survivor: Los Angeles the Ultimate Parody Taylor Short film
2004 Tropix Corrine Findlay
Seeing Iris Iris Jones Short film
2005 Venice Underground Wexler's Secretary
Downsizing Beatrix Schnabel Short film
2007 The Neighbor Floria Riamondi
2008 Three Minutes in Heaven Joy Short film
Get Smart Airline Passenger
The Caretaker Jessica Short film
2010 No Greater Love Heather Stroud
2013 Curse of Chucky Barb Pierce
Insidious: Chapter 2 Michelle Crane
2014 Back in the Day Annette Taylor
2018 The Feminine Mystaque Betty Hopescotch
Insidious: The Last Key Michelle Crane
2019 Hipster Sweatshop Diane Short film
Greenlight Mrs. Adams
2021 Little May Elizabeth Ackerman Short film
2023 The Blue Rose Norma Steele

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2000 Strip Mall Dani Episode: "Pilot"
2001 Dharma & Greg Joy Episode: "Dharma Does Dallas"
2003 Miss Match Missy Episode: "Miss Communication"
Platonically Incorrect Waitress TV film
Andy Richter Controls the Universe Jane Episodes: "Final Fantasy", "Duh Dog"
Less than Perfect Sales Lady Episode: "High Maintenance"
Charlie Lawrence Denise Episode: "If It's Not One Thing It's Your Mother"
Charmed The Lady of the Lake Episode: "Sword and the City"
2004 Boston Legal Roberta Sloane Episode: "Truth Be Told"
2004–05 The O.C. Joan Recurring role (5 episodes)
2006 Twenty Good Years Courtney Episode: "John's Old Lady"
Courting Alex Veronica Episode: "The Fix-Up"
Two and a Half Men Vicki Episode: "Corey's Been Dead for an Hour"
2007 Shark Francis Chambers Episode: "Blind Trust"
Cold Case Mrs. Valentine (1953) Episode: "Devil Music"
2007–08 Without a Trace Terri Long Episodes: "The Beginning", "4G", "Deja Vu"
2008 Wizards of Waverly Place Mona Lisa Episode: "Art Museum Piece"
Raising the Bar Emma Troutman Episode: "Shop Till You Drop"
2008–11 True Jackson, VP Amanda Cantwell Series regular; 56 episodes
2009 Raising the Bar Emma Troutman Episodes: "Hair Apparent", "Trout Fishing"
2010 ACME Saturday Night Guest Host Season 2: Episode: 26
Bones Marlowe Becker Episode: "The Mastodon in the Room"
2011 Hollywood Girl Pascha Maneer Episodes: "Code Red Carpet", "Limp of Shame"
Body of Proof Vicki Hemington Episode: "Love Thy Neighbor"
Private Practice Lynn Episode: "Deal with It"
CSI: Miami Gabrielle Wade Episode: "Dead Ringer"
2011–12 Parks and Recreation Prof. Linda Lonegan 2 episodes:
"Smallest Park"
"Lucky"
2012 90210 Connie Episode: "No Good Deed"
Hot in Cleveland Verena Episode: "I'm with the Band"
Last Man Standing Michelle Episodes: "Odd Couple Out", "Adrenaline"
CSI: Miami Gabrielle Wade Episodes: "Rest in Pieces", "Law & Disorder"
Castle Claire Panchard Episode: "The Limey"
Leverage Wendy Baran Episode: "The Gimme a K Street Job"
Criminal Minds Debra Acklin Episode: "Through the Looking Glass"
NCIS SSSA Ashley Winter Episode: "You Better Watch Out"
2013 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Theresa Shea Episode: "Dead Air"
Grey's Anatomy Liz Langer Episode: "Hard Bargain"
Anger Management Kristy Episode: "Charlie Dates a Teacher"
2014 Beauty and the Beast April Harris Episode: Ever After
Matador Meredith Wright Episode: Riot Til I Die & Mala Sangre
Happyland Margot Chandler Episode: Leave of Abscene & Your Happyland Family
2015 I Didn't Do It Mrs. Clegg Guest role
NCIS: Los Angeles Atty. Sarah Taylor Episode: "Blame It On Rio"
The Newsreader Wendy Garson-Gray Episode: The Creepish Man Alive; Bomb Sniffing Dogs
Rizzoli & Isles Linda Wallace Episode: Family Matters
Faking It Clement University Counselor Episode: Future Tense
2016 Dr. Ken Denise Episode: "Ken at the Concert"
Still Single Sage Callaghan TV film
2017 Mom Dana Episode: Fancy Crackers and Giant Women
2018 Nanny Killer Ms. Grey TV film
For the people Dana Gallagher Episode: This Is What I Wanted To Say
2019–21 Dwight in Shining Armor Witch Hexela Series Regular
2021 Mother F*cker! Bizzy Episode: "Boom Boom"

Podcast series

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List of voice performances in podcast
Year Title Role(s) Notes
2024 The South Jersey Horror Podcast Danielle S4. Episode: 44

Video games

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Year Title Role Notes
2018 God of War The Witch of the Woods / Freya / Frigg Nominated - BAFTA Award for Performer
2019 The Lego Movie 2 Videogame Wonder Woman
2020 Madden NFL 21 Claudia Grimstone
Madden NFL 21: Face of the Franchise: Rise to Fame
2022 God of War Ragnarök The Witch of the Woods / Freya / Frigg Nominated - BAFTA Award for Performer in a Supporting Role
2022 Disney Dreamlight Valley Elsa [11]
2023 Redfall Vampire
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Tulli Mu
God of War Ragnarök: Valhalla The Witch of the Woods / Freya / Frigg
Disney Speedstorm Elsa [12]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Nominated Work Result Ref.
2002 Daytime Emmy Awards Best Host Street Music Los Angeles Won [13]
2003 LA Music Awards Film Track Score In the Presence of Won [13]
Best Female Singer-Songwriter Venice Underground & April Moon Won [13]
AAA Album of the Year Glimmer Nominated [13]
Unanimous Choice Recipient Awards In Passing Won [13]
Independent AC Single of the Year April Moon Won [13]
2019 15th British Academy Games Awards Best Performer God of War Nominated [14]
Fade In Awards Short Script Competition Little May Won
2023 19th British Academy Games Awards Performer in a Supporting Role God of War Ragnarök Nominated [15]

References

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  1. ^ "Veromi.net - People Summary". www.veromi.net. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  2. ^ "British Academy Games Awards - Red Carpet Arrivals". Zimbio.com. February 2, 2020.
  3. ^ "♫ Danielle Bisutti: The B-Sides - Danielle Bisutti. Listen @cdbaby". Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Danielle Bisutti". Los Angeles Music Awards. May 22, 2023.
  5. ^ "God of War's Danielle Bisutti Found Motivation Through Game of Thrones". ComicBook.com. March 24, 2020.
  6. ^ "BAFTA Game Awards 2019 nominees announced". Shack News. February 6, 2020.
  7. ^ "God of War, Red Dead Redemption and indie titles lead 2019 Bafta nominations". BBC. February 7, 2020.
  8. ^ "Los Angeles Music Awards at MySpace.com". Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Los Angeles Music Awards History". Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Danielle Bisutti - Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos". Myspace. 28 April 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Danielle Bisutti (visul voices guide)". behindthevoiceactors.com. Retrieved September 28, 2022. Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  12. ^ Bisutti, Danielle [@daniellebisutti] (December 2, 2023). "Sometimes I have the tremendous honor of voicing Elsa" (Tweet). Retrieved February 25, 2024 – via Twitter.
  13. ^ a b c d e f "In Conversation With Danielle Bisutti". Numéro Netherlands Magazine. September 1, 2023.
  14. ^ Fogel, Stefanie (March 14, 2019). "'God of War,' 'Red Dead 2' Lead BAFTA Game Awards Nominations". Variety. Archived from the original on March 14, 2019. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
  15. ^ "2023 BAFTA Games Awards: The Winners". www.bafta.org. March 2, 2023. Archived from the original on April 2, 2023. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
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