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Cassandra Falana Freeman is an American actress of film, stage, and tv. She is best known for her acting as Denzel Washington's girlfriend in the Spike Lee blockbuster Inside Man. She is a native of West Palm Beach Fl.

Early Life
Though born in West Palm Beach, Florida Cassandra was raised in Jacksonville, Florida where she attended Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. There is where Ms. Freeman first discovered her love of acting. She had to audition to be a student at the school, she was so eager to attend so she auditioned for two departments Band and Acting. In the band department she auditioned on the xylophone and in the acting department she performed a monologue from A Raisin In the Sun. She was granted access into both departments but decided to try acting for a year, and then remained there in that discipline for the next 4 years. After graduation she went to Florida State University and received her BFA in acting and then went directly to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and received a MFA from their graduate acting program.

Career
Freeman's first professional role was in Spike Lee's Inside Man as Sylvia, Denzel Washington's girlfriend. Though she originally auditioned for one of the background cop characters, the casting director had her improv a scene as the girlfriend, and that audition caught the eye of Spike Lee. Cassandra Freeman since then has appeared on stage at the Guthrie Theatre starring in Lyn Nottage's play Intimate Apparel, off broadway in the hit production of Seven Guitars directed by Lakawana Blues writer/creator Rueben Santiago Hudson, the classic Vagina Monologues starring next to Jane Fonda and Rosie Perez among others, and appeared on soaps such as Guiding Light and All My Children, and had the opportunity to appear in Chris Rock's dramady I Think I love My Wife. Cassandra will next appear in a movie directed by Alrick Brown call Kinyarwanda, she will be portraying a character loosely based on Madame Rose Kabuye a former lieutenant Colonel in the Rwandan Army. Freeman says "it's more of a movie about love and forgiveness set during the genocide".