Angela Trimbur
Angela Denise Trimbur (born July 19, 1981) is an American actress, writer, dancer and choreographer who has also been on reality TV. She grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She was homeschooled early, finished Neshaminy High School in 1999, and was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness but no longer practices.
In Los Angeles, she plays for the Pistol Shrimps basketball team with Aubrey Plaza. She started the LA City Municipal Dance Squad in 2014, led dance workshops, and hosted community events like Slightly Guided Dance Party at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Time magazine highlighted her in 2018 for building a community for women. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2018 and later ran online support groups.
Her TV career began on MTV’s Road Rules: X-Treme, and she later appeared on Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Sexes 2. She trained in acting at Playhouse West and improv at UCB LA, and has guest roles on The Good Place, Drunk History, Workaholics, Californication, Anger Management, Hand of God and CSI: Cyber. She appeared in Reno 911! Season 6 in the opening credits. Her film work includes Halloween II (2009), Freak Dance (2010) and The Final Girls (2015). She has performed a one-woman show about growing up homeschooled and Jehovah’s Witness life at UCB LA, and acted in The Future (2011) and The Kings of Summer (2013). In 2012 she played Cleopatra in Epic Rap Battles of History. Comedy Central bought an untitled series in 2015 about a misfit all-female basketball team; as of 2018 there was no update. A 2016 documentary, The Pistol Shrimps, covers her real-life basketball group.
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