Asta Paredes

Asta Paredes is an actress, born in 1987, best known for playing Chrissy, the lead in Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 (2013), a film that traveled to the Cannes Film Festival and was picked for the Museum of Modern Art's Contenders series that year. She trained in the acting program run by the University of Minnesota and the Guthrie Theater, then continued her studies in London with the Globe Theater and the London International School for Performing Arts. Her stage credits include Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost, in which she played the Princess of France, Katerina in Slavs!, and the part of Ursa Minor, which she originated in Tiny Disasters at the Guthrie's Dowling Studio. She later settled in New York City, studied improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade, made comedy shorts with Dave Herman, and in 2014 staged Danny and the Deep Blue Sea with Clay von Carlowitz after raising funds for it.