Clay Bravo has been a working actress for over a decade. That’s a tough thing to accomplish in Hollywood and she’s doing it with a style and a personal stamp that is her own. If she were a cocktail it would mix like this: 1 shot Jackie Gleason, 1 shot Thelma Ritter, 1 shot Anna Magnani, add a garnish of Lucille ball. Cover with dry ice and shake like hell!!!

She has done some incredible work but I’d have to say that her most famous film moments take place in a Campbell Soup commercial which aired in the late 1990’s.  She played a foster mom to a frightened and apprehensive young foster child being dropped off at a new and unfamiliar home, the tag line of the commercial was “my mommy used to make me this soup too…why don’t I tell you about my mom and you can tell me about yours.”  This was an award winning commercial for Campbell’s, the director and Clay Bravo won an award as well!!  Since then, clay has filmed dozens of national and global commercials and photo shoots including AT&T, Miller Lite, Mazda, Prego Sauces, Principal Financial Group, E-Bay, Zocor, Pizza Hut, Citibank, Washington Mutual, Whirlpool, T-Mobile, Home Depot and a whole slew of others. 

She has also filmed two independent films and has performed her stand up comedy (this is where I get all of my material!!!) At the comedy store, the laugh factory and catch a rising star in and around Los Angeles and Hollywood!  She most recently completed a nine week run at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre in Hollywood of her one woman show titled “Apple Pie with Extra Anchovies” which received rave reviews!!!

This summer Clay will be featured in the upcoming movie “BEWITCHED” which was directed by Nora Ephron and also stars Nicole Kidman, Michael Caine, Will Ferrel and Shirley MacLaine!!  It is really fun to be on the periphery of her world and meet some of the people you see in the movies and on TV!!!  !  I’m proud of how she is learning her art form and excelling at it and the fearless nature she has developed, which leads to all of the other aspects of her life as well.  Acting is really one of the most difficult professions and it takes patience, perseverance and acceptance of ones self.  I’ll stay behind the camera thank you!!!

We just recently moved and the house we live in was once owned by Jean Harlow, so looks like the spirit of Hollywood is calling. If you see me at an art festival and my hair is dyed white-blond, you’ll understand why!!!