Grace won a Big
Easy Entertainment Award for Best Supporting
Actress in a Play (Dalt Wonk's Rio Seco
)!! She has also been nominated for a Marquee
Award
and a Storer Boone Award, both
for Best Actress in a Comedy!
Stand-Up
Grace just launched her stand-up comedy DVD
Full of Grace! With stand-up and interview
segments. To purchase a copy click STORE! Available now
on itunes!
Grace has
been performing all over the country Oregon,
Nevada, Utah, Idaho, New York, Illinois,
Florida, California and
Louisiana.
Films
Grace is on two Feature Films: she's the "check out lady" at CostCo in the film
Carts showing at the San Diego Film Festival.
She also plays
a tough-as-nails Detective in The Parallel, currently showing at local LA theatres
and the trailers air on MTV and IFC.
TV Shows
Grace appeared on a new Dr Drew pilot! This
is the second time that she works with the fab
doc! She also appeared on a celebrity's reality
show (can't tell you who...) and as a scientist
on the new Animal Planet show Virus
Hunters.
Grace had her own TV show Laff It Off
With Graceon
Time Warner Cable. It aired on six TV stations in
Los Angeles, in Chicago, New York, New
Orleans, Reno, WI and MN for 3 consecutive
years. 100 episodes, baby!.
Commercials
Grace is modeling for OLE HENDRICKSEN'S skin care
product line on HSN. His products are amazing!!
Internet & Cellphones
Grace is writing & producing mobisodes and webisodes. She partnered
up with her fabulous mentor and friend Emmy Award Winner Anne Beatts (SNL,
Square Pegs). They co-executive produced Dr Lupe's
Love Picante . Anne & Grace created
the show and the cast is amazing! You can view the whole
series on Grace's channel
www.youtube.com/gracecomedian
Radio
Grace was a guest on Playboy, Sirius
and National Lampoon Radio shows.
Grace had her own Internet radio
show Laff it off with Grace on
www.xradio.biz/variety for a whole
year.
Training
M.A. Art History
/ Thesis on Theater & Film, University of Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
MBA /
Emphasis on Finance, Loyola University, New Orleans,
LA.
About Grace Fraga:
The saucy Argentina native, rumored to be a distant relative of
Eva Peron, alit in New Orleans sixteen years ago, taking the
city by storm. Thank goodness it wasn’t hurricane season! While
there Grace honed her South American sidesplitting humor doing
stand-up comedy and appearing in live theatre productions. Her
titillating tamale timing garnered her a Best Actress in a
Comedy nomination from the Marquee and Storer Boone Awards;
winning a Big Easy Entertainment Award for Best Supporting
Actress, in Dalt Wonk’s comedy “Rio Seco,” playing a Latina
spitfire. Typecasting, do you think?
Not one to rest on her laurels, the blonde bombshell and
margarita soccer momma decided to take the plunge and imbedded
herself in Beverly Hills. However, soon after her foray into
this foreign territory she discovered that she was just…“A
Spanish Valley girl, with Neiman Marcus taste, living on a
K-Mart budget!” Never feint of heart, the incorrigible Fraga,
took the bull by the horns, deciding to become…“A true American
girl…Hair by Clairol, boobs by Victoria’s Secret and bootie by
McDonald’s.”
As a child growing up in Buenos Aires, the daughter of a civil
engineer and internationally renowned concert pianist,
Elisabeth
Fiocca (yes, pronunciation wise you can go there), the ever
inquisitive over achiever earned three college degrees: a BA in
Art History Education, an MA in Art History with an emphasis in
Theatre and Film Analysis and an MBA in Finance, which of course
led her to her career in the entertainment field
because…“There’s no business like show business.” Still close to
her mother, some of Fraga’s routines are based around her
mother’s annual visits and her ability to drive Grace to rack
and ruin… “Am I Crazy? I moved 9,000 miles away and now she has
a computer. I didn’t buy a computer, I bought 9,000 miles of
umbilical chord!”
Grace’s current expansion plans, fueled by a diet by Jake, in
her lifelong quest to lose J-Lo’s behind are hosting a weekly
internet radio show “Laff It Off With Grace” and an upcoming
cable version on Adelphia. “Did you know,” she comments, “that
if you spend one full hour of sustained belly-laughing you can
burn as many as 500 calories?” Ever wonder how many calories
she’s burning off in her Body by Jake class? Ever wonder what
her mother’s thinking as she tunes in to her daughter’s show at
www.xradio.biz? Thank goodness
the TV version won’t run in her native country.
So, after 9,000 miles and sixteen years in the making, this
effervescent, clever comedienne is about to put her feminine
jocularity to work, joining ranks with her masculine
counterparts,
George Lopez,
Paul Rodriguez and
John Leguizamo.
By consistently performing at mainstream clubs around the
country, and at
the Laugh Factory and
Comedy Store
on the Sunset Strip, Grace Fraga likes to quip…“ Hey, at least
I’m not turning tricks on Sunset Boulevard, yet. Ole!”
