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Jonez Cain
Jonez Cain Born (1981) January 5, 1981 Oakland, California, U.S. Kaplan College Occupation Actress Years active 1988-present

Jonez Cain (born January 5, 1981) is an actress, casting director, and producer. As of 2013 Cain is a supporting actress in the web-series The Dirty, a Sean Cunningham series, in which Cain plays Contessa Cain a character created and named after her. She is known for her roles as Vickie In the Shop (2013), Simone in Cover (2012), Sasha in Watch Phoenix Rise, and Constance Thomas in Basketball 3:16. Cain has also been a depiction actress in the Discovery ID television show, Wives with Knives and Discovery’s Cuff Me if You Can. She will cast the film Shadows Beneath the Sun for Ceezar Films early 2014.

Early life [edit source | edit]

Cain was born in 1981, the daughter of an Operating Room Technician and Owner of Banks Enterprise, Works at SF City College. Cain began her love affair with the arts at the tender age of 7 acting and dancing with different groups. School plays. Susan Blair was the first person who made her realize she was a talented actor. Edison Elementary School in San Francisco. Cain has also danced for Hunter's Point Recreation Center, the mayor Disneyland up until high school.

Career[edit source | edit]

Cain made her acting debut in the Matrix. She was recognized by one of casting directors on the street. As an adult this love has blessed her with many new opportunities; Discovery/Discovery ID’s lead role on "Cuff Me If You Can" Season1 No Life of the Party and a host of Independent films "Basketball 3:16", "Watch Phoenix Rise", "Scraperboyz", "Cover", "The Shop" & and a featured role on the new film festival winner of Sundance "Fruitvale” all being released 2013. Jonez recently added event guest host appearances on KOFY’s “The Art of Dreaming” with Host Pharaoh Powell. Her love grew deeper and seeped over into modeling and songwriting which has provided working opportunities with famous photographer Peter Bruce, writing for an artist on independent label HHK with that she became an intern with TraMaí Entertainment, Inc. She was also an understudy with the play "Old Settler" produced by Tico Wells. Battled with Lupus and at 28 yrs., 2009, picked up the acting bug again in the play Sparkle. She began training at the Black Reparatory Theatre. Cain later trained in Television and Film with Charles Ascello. Cain continued working in theatre until an opportunity came to work in film in Basketball 3:16 with Pharoah Filmworks.

Personal life [edit source | edit]

Jonez Cain was born in Hunter's Point in San Francisco's urban area. Spent teenage years in North Oakland and graduated from Oakland Technical High School. She is a wife and mother. She’s a mentor to the youth and gives back. She is also a breast cancer advocate and a Lupus survivor. She gives all credit to God and realizes that she's being used it's all his doings. Jonez is currently working on new feature films” Hopes Identity” and “Selling Dreams” also an R&B Gospel EP and Clothing line both launching Summer 2013.

Other projects [edit source | edit]

Cain dropped a single, Covered in the Blood, in 2012 independently and plans to release a full project in 2014. Cain is a Fit Model for On the Runway a clothing boutique in Oakland, CA. Cain intermittently co-hosts the San Francisco Bay Area television show, the Pharoah Powell Show, on the KOFY TV20 channel. In November 2013 Cain joined the cast of Bay Wives, a web-reality series featuring prominent wives around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Filmography [edit source | edit]

Fruitvale Station Featured & Leads Stand-In Prod. Forest Whitaker/Dir. Ryan Cooglar The Shop (Post Prod) Lead/Receptionist Straightlyne Films Cover (Completed) Lead/Simone Abloom Entertainment/Ceezer Films Selling Dreams Lead Famous Filmworks/Where Media Meets/HITM Watch Phoenix Rise Lead/Sasha HITM Entertainment Contagion Extra Steven Soderbergh I'm In Love With A Church Girl Featured Extra Grant Ellis/Ram Films Basketball 3:16 Supporting/Constance Thomas HITM Moneyball Fan Scraperboyz Supporting/Parole Officer RolCal Productions Doorways Extra Raquel Scott Hairbiz Supporting/Sharonda Keefe Cline Matrix Reloaded Child Of Zion Andy And Larry Wachowski

Television [edit source | edit]

The Doctors Guest Star Studio 29 Paramount Cuff Me If You Can Lead/Tamara Bowden Ted Leonard I Almost Got Away With It Beautiful Girl Indigo Films Ted Leonard Art Of Dreaming (No Suggestions) Guest Star HITM Entertainment ABC Live Live Guest ABC Broadcast

Awards and nominations [edit source | edit]

Oakland Soul category Oakland Indie Awards 2013

References[edit source | edit]

Artiste Card http://artistecard.com/JonezCain

Oakland Indie Awards http://www.oaklandindieawards.com/2013-nominees.html

Village Voice http://www.villagevoice.com/movies/the-shop-4150992/

SF Gate Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Thousands-seek-jobs-as-extras-in-Contagion-2478023.php#ixzz2Pdhlex1L

SF Bayview http://sfbayview.com/2013/watch-phoenix-rise-wit-film-maker-ramasses-head/

Black Pearl Entertainment http://www.black-pearl-entertainment.net/2013/03/movie-night-jonez-cain-stars-in-shop.html

Zennie63blog.com http://www.zennie62blog.com/2013/01/30/fruitvale-oakland-film-about-oscar-grant-wins-sundance-top-prize-28222/

The Art of Dreaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6GosDzT0EI&NR=1&feature=endscreen

The Shop Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8R3bA0iBg&feature=player_embedded

Cover https://www.facebook.com/covermovie

I'm In Love With a Church Girl http://iminlovewithachurchgirl.com/