Background
Adrianne Ellis was born in Canada and raised in California.
Adrianne Ellis was born in Canada and raised in California.
She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was president of her Honors Drama Society, and then went on to University of California, Los Angeles, where she distinguished herself in the theater and acted in the first student film directed by then fellow student Francis Ford Coppola.
Ellis began her career in 1960, when she played on the television series Dan Raven. In 1965 she played in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Cheating Chancellor." Others credits includes the television shows Suspicion, The Virginian and Morning Star (1965-1966), where she had one of the main roles, and the movie The New Interns. During the 1960s she lived at the Hollywood Studio Club.
Her roommate was model Gloria Dawn.
Her other stage roles includes as Nora in The Doll"s House, and Desdemona opposite the great William Marshall"s Othello. Adrienne produced a theatrical version of The Servant starring Eric McCormick, and Keir Dullea at the former Bayview Playhouse in Toronto and co-produced, Rugged Gold, a family movie directed by Michael Anderson.
