Chane't Johnson

Born A'Drewana Chane't Johnson in Dallas, Texas,[2] Johnson received a BFA in Theatre Arts from Southern Methodist University.[4] She went on to earn an MFA in acting from the University of California, San Diego.[2]

Johnson started out as a stage actress. She was a trained Shakespearean actress[4] and performed in more than fourteen productions of Shakespeare's plays during multiple seasons of the Dallas Shakespeare Festival.[5] In 2001, she was chosen for the role of Lena in the play Boesman and Lena, written and directed by South African playwright Athol Fugard.[2][6]

As a television actress, Chane't had recurring guest-starring roles on shows such as Life, Day Break, LAX, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, Brothers, and Big Love.[4]

She executive produced and starred in the web series, Nurses Who Kill...[3] Her weekly web series Trailerate premiered in November 2009.[4]

As an acting coach, she trained actors such as Denzel Whitaker (The Great Debaters, Training Day) and Nicole Travolta (The Secret Life of the American Teenager).[7]

Johnson died from a heart attack in 2010.[3][6][8]

Before her death, Johnson had increasingly been cast in feature films, playing opposite Rosanna Arquette, Tom Arnold, Ian Somerhalder and Bijou Phillips[9][10][11] and was slated to produce and direct two feature horror/fantasy films, The Dark Sisters and Anomaly.[12] She was the director of two short films, Texas Toast and Pony Man, which are set to play on the film festival circuit in 2011.[3][4] Her short film First screened at the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival.[4]

• Chane't Johnson at IMDb
• Chane't Johnson Website
• Nurses Who Kill Web series
• TRAILERRATE Web series