Maren McGuire

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Maren McGuire is an actress from California who has acted in films such as I Am Virgin , [1] Blood Creek Woodsman. [2] She has also acted in the comedy Little Blue Pill , playing the Bar Wench [3] and the television series Community . [4] She is also a narrator, having narrated up to 26 audio books. [5]

<i>I Am Virgin</i> 2010 film

I Am Virgin released by Cheezy Flicks Entertainment is a campy B-movie about vampires, sex and a virgin. Starring Adam Davis, co-written by David Wester, produced and co-written by Sean Skelding, with a cameo by Ron Jeremy.

Little Blue Pill is an American comedy film that starred Aaron Kuban, Adam Carr, Rosie Tisch, Gerold Wunstel, Trevor Coppola, Jonathan Ahdout, Ashley Whittaker and Chacko Vadaketh.

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Background

She was born in Marin County, California. [6] She grew up on a goat farm in Kings Valley, Oregon. Her father was a roadie for the rock group Jefferson Starship and her mother was a seamstress. [7]

Marin County, California County in California, United States

Marin County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 252,409. Its county seat is San Rafael. Marin County is included in the San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

Kings Valley, Oregon human settlement in Benton County, Oregon, United States of America

Kings Valley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Benton County, Oregon, United States. It is located on the Luckiamute River and Oregon Route 223. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 65.

Jefferson Starship American rock band

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California that formed after the breakup of the group Jefferson Airplane in 1972. Between 1974 and 1984, they released ten gold or platinum selling studio albums, and had nine top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The band went through several major changes in personnel and genres through the years while retaining the same Jefferson Starship name. The band name was retired in 1985, but it was picked up again in the early 1990s by a revival of the group led by Paul Kantner, which has continued following his death in 2016.

Film work

She played a vampire in the 2010 film I Am Virgin which was about a virus infecting the earth and turning people into sex driven vampires. [8] [9] The following year she appeared in another film of the horror genre called Stripperland which was about a group of people banding together to survive in a post-apocalyptic land over run by zombies. She played one of the two uninfected women. [10] [11] [12] Two years later she was in another horror film, Blood Creek Woodsman. [13]

Some of the other films she has appeared in are How the Fire Fell, a haunting tale about an Oregon family and their slipping into madness. [14] [15] and playing the role of Monica in the Scott Ballard directed Welcoming Departure. [16] [17] In 2013, she acted in City Baby playing the role of Tatiana. [18]

Filmography

Feature films

Only for You is a 2008 romance film directed by Donna Persico set in early 1990s. The film stars Shea Curry and Michael Buie. The film is produced by Michael D. Jones and Donna Persico. The production company of the film is Silver Heart Productions.

Television

Writer

Stage

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