Jeanette Maus

Jeanette Maus was an American actor and voice performer who also worked as a producer, writer and director. She grew up in Lake Stevens, Washington, studied at Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts and graduated in 2003, then taught acting in Los Angeles at the John Rosenfeld Studios and mentored other performers. Her first screen role came in Frayed (2007), and in 2008 she wrote My Effortless Brilliance, which Lynn Shelton directed and which was shown at the Maryland Film Festival the following year. Her credits ranged from independent work to the thriller Dismissed (2017) and the crime drama Charm City Kings (2020), and in 2018 she wrote and produced the short Secret Island Adventure: Ripple One while also directing and producing Je Suis Ici. She appeared posthumously in My Fiona (2021), written and directed by Kelly Walker, and that year she voiced Cassandra Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village, a part that won her wide recognition.