Angela Featherstone

Angela Featherstone (born 3 April 1965) is a Canadian actress, writer, director, and advocate for children in foster care.

Career

Modeling Within a year of emancipating herself from foster care at age 17, Featherstone became Canada's top model when her September Flare magazine cover broke all previous records for sales. She quickly expanded upon her success and left for New York, where she signed with the illustrious Click models and later would be one of the first models signed to Next. She would travel the world in the 80s as a top fashion model.

Acting Featherstone is best known for playing the titular maid on the Seinfeld episode called The Maid, Chloe in Friends, and Robbie's fiancée Linda in The Wedding Singer. Most recently, she played the role of Maggie on Showtime's Ray Donovan and Jame on HBO's Girls.

Writing Featherstone has created sitcoms for Sony, DreamWorks, and NBC television and has written nonfiction for Time, Jane, Flare, Huffington Post, Dame, and Zoomer. Her essay about childhood trauma, "God Said No", was published in the 2014 edition of Gargoyle magazine and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In 2021, she published the essay "Forgiveness" in Dame magazine.

An alumnus of UCLA Extension Writer's Program "Personal Essay & Memoir," she is completing her memoir.

Directing In 2022, Featherstone began directing with her debut seven-minute film, L'Étranger. As a director, she uses her years of experience in fashion as a model, working with important photographers and magazines (such as Italian, French, and American Vogue; Mademoiselle; Seventeen; Sassy; Harper's Bazaar Italia; Grazia; Harpers & Queens; Albert Watson; Bruce Weber; & Irving Penn), her love of cinema and decades in the film industry, a refined sense of story as an oft published essayist, her passion for philosophy, and a love of creating safe spaces for collaboration.

Curating In 2011, she curated Fuck Pretty, a critically acclaimed photography exhibit at the Robert Berman Gallery - featuring emerging female photographers.

Music She recorded the song "Coattail Glide" with Raymond Pettibon and the band The Niche Makers in 2011.

Producing In 2014, she was an adjunct lecturer at the UCLA Professional Producing Program. In 2022, she produced L'Étranger.

Advocacy Featherstone, a committed advocate for children in foster care, volunteered with the Children's Action Network, curating their Heart Gallery from 2011 to 2019, and served on their Winter Wonderland committee in 2014 and 2015. She also mentored a child in foster care through Kidsave from 2011 to 2020. She has described suffering physical, emotional, and sexual abuse when she herself was a foster child.

In 2014, she lectured at the ICAN Nexus Conference on Violence Within the Home and its Effects on Children. She continues to lecture and write about healing PTSD, child abuse, human trafficking, and intimacy. Her 2015 essay on child sex trafficking for DAME was picked up by Salon.com and MSN and was read by over seven million viewers. Since 2009, she has studied moral and spiritual psychology with Rabbi Mordecai Finley, Ph.D. She served as a consultant on Cracked Up, a Netflix documentary about the effects and healing of trauma.

In 2021, she founded Fostering Care, a nonprofit healing school for youth aging out of foster care.

Filmography

Movies Year Title Role Notes 1988 Frantic Extra Uncredited 1992 Army of Darkness Girl in S Mart Uncredited 1994 Dark Angel: The Ascent Veronica Direct-to-video 1995 The Pompatus of Love Times Square Kisser 1996 Illtown Lilly 1997 Con Air Ginny 1998 Zero Effect Jess 1998 The Wedding Singer Linda 1999 200 Cigarettes Caitlyn 1999 Rituals and Resolutions Mirabell Short 2000 Takedown Julia 2000 The Guilty Tanya Duncan 2000 Skipped Parts Delores 2000 Ivans Xtc Amanda Hill 2001 Soul Survivors Raven 2002 Pressure Amber 2002 One Way Out Gwen Buckley 2003 Reeseville Judith Meyers 2006 Mother Carolyn Short 2006 Love Hollywood Style Cathy Sherman 2008 What Doesn't Kill You Katie 2009 The Soloist Commuter #1 Uncredited 2010 Beneath the Dark Sandy 2016 My Dead Boyfriend Norma

Television Year Title Role Notes 1991 The Kids in the Hall Strip Club On-looker 1 Episode, "Episode #3.1'" 1993 Northern Exposure Carla 1 Episode, "Jaws of Life" 1994 New York Undercover Angela Mancini 1 Episode, "Garbage" 1995 The Wright Verdicts Michelle Farnon 1 Episode, "Sins of the Father" 1995 Family of Cops Jackie Fein TV movie 1997 Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops 2 Jackie Fein TV movie 1997 Friends Chloe 2 episodes 1997–1999 Cracker Det. Hannah Tyler 14 episodes 1998 Seinfeld Cindy 1 Episode, "The Maid" 2000 Jack & Jill Lucy 3 episodes 2000 Providence Andi Paulsen 9 episodes 2002 Federal Protection Leigh Kirkindall TV movie 2003 Dragnet Amy Halsted 1 Episode, "Let's Make a Deal" 2003 The Twilight Zone Kate Graham 1 Episode, "Burned" 2003–2004 The Guardian Suzanne Pell 10 episodes 2006 Caved In: Prehistoric Terror Samantha Palmer TV movie 2006–2009 Exes & Ohs Kris 14 episodes 2010 Huge Teal 2 episodes 2011 The Mentalist Rocket 1 Episode, "Like a Readheaded Stepchild" 2013 Girls Jame 1 Episode, "Bad Friend" 2016 Ray Donovan Mental Patient 1 Episode, "The Texan"