Charla Bocchicchio is a busy, seasoned actress with over 25 years of experience both onstage and on camera. She is no stranger to the indie film scene as she loves to collaborate on projects she feels passionately about. She has appeared in numerous films, tv shows and commercials. Some highlights include: co star roles on ABC's Blood and Oil, HBO's Mosaic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, Kevin Costner’s new series for Paramount called, Yellowstone, and BYU TV's Granite Flats. Some of Charla's favorite projects have involved improvisation, which she adores. She trained at UCB in LA and has enjoyed her work on successful viral internet ads with Click Funnels, Cricket Wireless and PooPourri. Most recently you can see Charla in their hilarious "Control the Shituation" viral campaign. She is currently working on a series regular role for a new web series in development, and she looks forward to whatever new adventures come next.
In addition to her acting work, Charla is also a highly sought after acting coach. She has been teaching and coaching actors for over 25 years and enjoyed a few wonderful years as the lead youth teacher for award-winning, Keep It Real Acting School in North Hollywood. Several of her students go back and forth between UT and CA, consistently auditioning for major Hollywood projects, including Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and other Network TV shows. Her teaching and acting style focuses on listening and reacting honestly in each moment. Being fully present and open to whatever the scene and scene partner brings out in you. She works with students to bring their true selves to each scene, allowing them to live truthfully in an imaginary circumstance.
Charla is mindfully grateful for her amazing life and wildly blessed! She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, John.
Stalker
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The Quality of Love
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Film
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Actress After Malia's father mysteriously dies, she must confront her past and learn to live with the decisions that led to her becoming an exotic dancer.
Not Cinderella's Type
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Film
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Actress Indy Zimmerman's life is far from perfect. With a step mom who seems to make it her goal in life to make indy's life horrible, step sister's who want nothing to do with her, and a boy who ruined her life suddenly wanting to be a part of it, life is already more than difficult. throw high school, relationships and tragity in the mix and things couldn't be worse. When the most popular boy at school, Bryant Bailey, kills her cat, Indy wants nothing to to with him, but he seems set on being a part of her life, and after all attempts of getting rid of him fail, she decides to give him a chance. He might not be her type but Indy quickly learns first impressions can be wrong Written by Ruthann Foster
Mosaic
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Television
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Actress Mosaic is a mystery thriller that takes place in Park City, Utah. Originally released as an interactive app, Mosaic allows the viewer to experience different portions of the story from the perspective of different characters in a non-linear fashion, providing a complex and unique narrative form. The story itself involves a murder mystery, coverups, conspiracies, high-end art, real estate, and the entangled interests of the wealthy Park City elite. Written by blakekhodges
Yellowstone
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Television
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Snatchers
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Television
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In Emma's Footsteps
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Film
(Drama and History)
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Three Billboards One-Shot TMA 285
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Film
(Short and Drama)
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Ruling of the Heart
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Bake Sale
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Film
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Dead Film Society
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Film
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Actress Dead Film Society, is, at its heart, a story about your 20's. Each character represents a different period of that particularly cruel decade of life: Adam is the earnest, slow period; Jake is the jaded middle chunk; and Allison is the final bitter stretch. The show combines trials and tribulations of artistic adulthood with an imbued sense of cinematic rebellion. at its core, the show is about exchanges of ideas, experiences, and compassion. It's about the journey of figuring out where an individual stands as an artist, friend, and human being.
High Lonesome
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Film
(Short and Drama)
Actress Rich is looking for the moments that make life sing, but he may be lost in all of the moments passing him by.
Tomorrow's Shores
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Film
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Actress The world of the future is withering away, but when a mother and daughter discover one of the last fish left in the ocean, there may be a glimmer of hope.
Town Business
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Film
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In the Vault
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Television
(Drama)
Actress One month into college, a freshman dies. Was it Murder? Or Suicide?
Dear Coward on the Moon
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Film
(Drama, Fantasy and Mystery)
Actress A woman is forced to confront her past when her nine-year-old sister runs away after discovering a family secret. Written by Shaky Balloon Productions
Suburban Bliss
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Film
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Actress A woman has to break up with her husband and bake cookies for a swap all so that she can escape Suburbia with her new found Love.
Glass Cages
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Film
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Actress Tricia Lemmon has been house-bound with paralyzing agoraphobia since her husband left her two years ago. When he informs her that he is moving out of state, she must choose between her obsessions and her children---and prove her sanity before it's too late.
The Witching Season
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Television
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Actress Fueled by nostalgia, this anthology of short horror films tells original tales of terror set during the Halloween season.
The Legacy
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Film
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Actress A terminally ill, abused boy chronicles his life on an online message board.
The Mother Wound
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Film
(Short and Drama)
Actress Caught in the middle of the ongoing tension between her sister and Mother, Kat struggles to keep the peace and cope with her own mother wound.
Hanneli and Anne
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Film
(Short, Biography and Drama)
Actress In the summer of 1942, Anne and her family were forced into hiding and Hanneli was told that the Frank family had fled to Switzerland, and the best friends were abruptly parted. In June, 1943, Hanneli and her surviving family were sent to a camp in Westerbork, northeastern Holland, where they were prisoners until they were transported to Bergen Belsen, Alballalager, a 'privileged camp' in February, 1944. In November of 1944, thousands of new inmates arrived at Bergen-Belsen. Alballalager was divided down the middle by barbed wire covered with straw to keep the camp separated. The penalty for talking to prisoners on the other side of the barbed wire was death. In February, 1945, Hanneli finds out that her dear friend, Anne, is on the other side of the fence, and not in Switzerland, as she previously thought. When darkness falls, she approaches the high fence, and by a miracle, she is able to make contact with Anne. Even though they cannot see each other because of the straw, they meet ...
WROL
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Television
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GUS
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The Cate Morland Chronicles
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Television
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Actress This modern retelling of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey follows Cate Morland, a recent journalism graduate who is obsessed with fan culture, particularly of the short-lived cult series The Mysteries of Udolpho. Her new job at an LA entertainment magazine puts her in contact with many different people in the pop culture sphere, but none more exciting than Henry Tilney, the former star of The Mysteries of Udolpho himself...
Is That a Real Gun?
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Film
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Actress What begins as a typical evening for Zane, a manager of a small restaurant & part-time community theater actor, spirals into craziness in this film noir, comedy of errors.
The Rally-LA
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Film
(Drama)
Actress Antonio Sarka (Kenneth Copeland), the traditional patriarch of a powerful crime family, had suddenly decided to give up his control of the family business and return to the old country for a while. He also wants his brother, Santiago (Eric Roberts), to give it up, leave that place with him and its memories to start a new life, but Santiago has no intention of giving up his birthright...
Solar
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Film
(Short and Drama)
Actress A father and son struggle to remain sane for their last days together on a doomed planet.
The Seven Sins of Memory
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Film
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Actress When Rebecca's father is murdered following a dinner party, she calls upon her aunt Ridley, a criminal investigator, to find the killer. Ridley's over zealous intern sees this case as the perfect platform for her thesis on the seven sins of memory. But all memories are fallible-even those of the investigators. Written by anonymous
Incipient: The Immaculate Invention
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Film
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Actress In the year 2215, from an ocean that is uninhabitable and glutted with noxious waste, Sabine (Avery Pizzuto) emerges mysteriously with no memory of who she is or where she came from. She wanders the earth after dusk, avoiding human contact. One night, she is befriended by a young loner, Sewel (Chris Garcia), in a small town playground. The two outcasts bond as they discover her past, thwart bullies, and confront their personal demons. Written by Purdum, Belinda
Phoenix Inc.
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Television
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Take a Chance
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Film
(Action, Drama, Romance and Sport)
Actress Even in Japan, the ancient lifestyle of Uchi Deshi training is all but forgotten. However, a teenager from Tokyo discovers that it's alive and well in the American Deep South.
Blood & Oil
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Television
(Crime, Drama and Romance)
Actress The present day oil boom in North Dakota is tempting the young and ambitious to try their luck in the black gold business. Such are Billy and Cody LeFever, a young married couple that's just arrive in a North Dakotan town famous for its rich oil fields. They don't know anyone there, but Billy is ambitious and always has an idea on how to start some small business, while modest Cody makes friends easily and just wants to make a home for themselves there, even if they have to compromise and do something much more common and less glamorous and profitable than partaking in the oil business. While Cody goes to find them a place to live and a job for herself, Billy spends all the money they have, most of which came from their friends back home who pitched in to help them build a tiny starting capital, to buy a modestly lucrative plot of land owned by old and bitter Clifton Lundegren. The deal is made after some tough negotiating, but then notorious local oil baron Hap Briggs offers Billy a ...
Afterlife
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Television
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Actress After most of the worlds population is wiped out the survivors try to rebuild their lives.
Beyond the Veil: Alberta's Story
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Film
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Granite Flats
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Television
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Actress When a mysterious object falls from the sky and an Army base explodes, three young amateur sleuths try to unveil the secrets of the small town.
Winchester Palace
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Film
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Actress After Brian's cougar girlfriend breaks-up with him on his birthday, his housemates at Winchester Palace try to cheer him up the best ways they know how.
Blackout
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Film
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Actress Taylor, a 27 year old alcoholic musician, is faced with the choice of continuing her life on a self destructive path or taking a step towards recovery.
Perfect Cowboy
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Actress A community-based, alternative family film about two gay fathers of a straight country western singer, all living in a rural community and playing music together. Jimmy Poole gets out of prison and kicks his stepson Mark out of the family's band. Written by Ken Roht
Skanks in a One Horse Town Live!
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Actress A live recording of the stage musical, "Skanks in a One Horse Town", about three skanks from Studio 54 who - thanks to Steve Rubell's magical disco ball - travel back in time to the Old West where they must stop the local railroad baron from bringing the steam engine through the sleepy town of Deep Hole. Along for the ride are rocker Meat Loaf, country singer Conway Twitty and noted bigot, Anita Bryant. Written by Billy Ray Brewton
Blue Highway
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Film
(Comedy)
Actress A couple goes on a cross-country road trip from North Carolina to Los Angeles. Along the way they visit filming locations for some of their favorite movies while they fall in and out of love.
Sadie Clove
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Film
(Drama, Horror, Mystery and Thriller)
Actress After experiencing a series of unexplained seizures, Sadie Clove attends several sessions with therapist Dr. Rainer to find the underlying cause of her new found medical condition. As time progresses and Sadie's condition begins to worsen, Dr. Rainer becomes concerned by Sadie's inability to remember portions of her childhood, especially one summer spent at an aunt's house who was known to practice the dark arts. When confronted with the issue, Sadie's parents are reluctant to tell Dr. Rainer the events of that summer and how it relates to Sadie, but once they visit the aunt's house, the Clove family's demons are brought to the surface and manifest in an unexpected, and bloody, way. Written by Anonymous
Lost in Reality
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Film
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Actress Seduced by the lure of reality TV fame, Angelo becomes entangled between two opposing worlds. This twenty something struggles to maintain his own identity in a celebrity crazed environment that, for the most part, perceives him as The Animal, a character conceived and manipulated by studio heavyweights to line their own pockets . Life at the Zoo House, despite its glamorous trappings and undeniable perks, is inhabited with drama and friends of questionable motives. Can Angelo survive being LOST IN REALITY? Written by Anonymous
New Arrivals
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Interview 918
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Film
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Actress A reclusive woman is interviewed for a family tree project and events take a surprising and shocking turn.
University of Utah
(1987-1994)