Mary Chieffo

About Mary Chieffo

Mary Chieffo is known internationally as the Klingon Commander turned Chancellor L'Rell on the award-winning Paramount+ series Star Trek: Discovery, most recently returning as her iconic character for the highly popular Star Trek Online.When she wasn't covered in prosthetics and speaking Klingon, Mary produced, wrote, and starred as Iago in Operation Othello - a feminist, gender, and color-conscious Virtual Reality adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello alongside Viola Davis and Julius Tennon's JuVee Productions in the spring of 2018 (Official Cannes XR and Raindance XR Selection).Chieffo received her BFA from Juilliard in 2015, flourishing in her passion for classic text and reveling in the opportunity to take on strong female and male roles in Shakespeare canon, including King Lear, Queen Elizabeth, and the title role in Erica Schmidt's all-female Macbeth. For her exceptional work in the four-year program, Juilliard presented Mary with the prestigious Elizabeth Smith Voice and Speech Prize and the Saint-Denis Prize for "Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Drama."After graduation, she reprised her role in Schmidt's Macbeth for Seattle Repertory Theatre's The Other Season and explored the role of Iago for the first time in Harlem Shakespeare Festival's all-female Othello. She also participated in workshops of Lover, Beloved: An Evening With Carson McCullers - a one-woman show written by Grammy Award-winning Suzanne Vega and Tony- and Grammy Award-winning Duncan Sheik. She performed the piece at The Sherry Theatre in Los Angeles and The Alley Theatre in Houston, TX.In 2019, Chieffo returned to the LA stage starring in the Bespoke Plays workshopped reading of Analogue by esteemed television writer Christine Boylan (The Punisher, Cloak & Dagger) as well as the XR stage for Peter Flaherty's Empire at Sea, an Augmented Reality project produced by Intel (Tribeca Film Festival Official Selection). She was also featured as a special guest star in Ripley Improv's GLAM and the most recent season of The Improvised Generation at the long-form genre-based Impro Studio in Los Feliz, where she went on to become a member of their rigorous Conservatory program.In the spring of 2020, Mary developed and directed Closed Circuit, a new play premiering at the NYC Frigid Festival (WINNER Best Original Script). In the fall, Chieffo produced, hosted and guest-starred in Ripley Improv's Heartbeats - "a fully improvised medical dramedy" - streaming live on Twitch for eight weeks in a row. After a second run of Heartbeats at the beginning of 2021, Chieffo appeared as Dr. Elizabeth Diamond, PhD in Ripley's new monster-hunting genre SLAY, directed by Aliza Pearl.Mary stretched her directing muscles again in March of 2021, shaping Ryan McCurdy's musical one-man show Whiterock Cliff entirely remotely. Featuring 8 instruments and 3 cameras in one studio space, the piece had a successful run Off-Broadway via the Five OHM streaming platform.Chieffo was featured in Impro Theatre School Conservatory's Rom Com Improvised during May of 2021.The statuesque 6-foot tall beauty was born into this business as the daughter of successful character actors Beth Grant ("The Mindy Project") and Michael Chieffo ("Battle of the Sexes"). She made her acting debut at three years old in the Sandra Bullock directed short film "Making Sandwiches" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.In high school, Mary gave up her career as an all-star soccer goalie to focus on acting and modern ...

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Mary Chieffo Talks Klingons At 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premiere

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