Quick Facts
Biography
Marica Barandyai-Rani, born in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, is an actress, and singer of Romani origin.
Biography
Early life
Manoush was born May 1975 in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer as the third child of a mother of Manouche Romani origin and a German-American father. She was raised in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Cologne, Germany and Biel, Switzerland. At the age of 18, Manoush began modelling, but her career stopped short at age 20 after a car accident left scars on her stomach and legs. She immigrated to the United States a couple of years ago.
Movie career
She began to get into film in the summer of 1997. In 2000 was offered the role of the “nymphomaniac" in Jean-Pierre Jeunet´s Amélie, which opened many doors in the film and TV industry for Manoush, as well as establishing her as “the bad girl” in the roles she played. Manoush often gets credit as an action and horror actress or as a professional for roles which can be intense and difficult to play. In 2004 she played fighter Carda in Angel of Death 2, closely followed by films such as Timo Rose’s The Legend of Moonlight Mountain (2005), Marian Dora’s Cannibal (2006), Timo Rose’s Barricade (2007), and Andrey Iskanov’s Philosophy of a Knife (2008). She won Best Supporting Actress in 2011 at the PollyGrind Film Festival in Las Vegas for her role as Olga in The Super.
Music career
She started out as a cyberpunk singer. Besides her acting and writing career, she worked as a singer of the band Cyanide Savior alongside her husband, Chris Vazquez.
Filmography
- 1997 M-Inspiration
- 1998 Engagement
- 1999 Time To Kill (unfinished Belgian movie)
- 1999 Einer geht Noch
- 2000 Amélie
- 2001 Wolf im Schafspelz
- 2002 Champion
- 2002 Crossclub - Project Genesis
- 2003 Hinter Schloss und Riegel
- 2004 Angel of Death
- 2004 Criminal Court: Tempel of Lust
- 2004 Moonlight Mountain
- 2005 Freunde für immer
- 2006 Cannibal
- 2006 Traumjob
- 2006 Barricade
- 2007 Fearmakers
- 2007 Zombie Reanimation
- 2007 The Shrieking
- 2007/13 The Tourist aka 'Ingression
- 2008 Philosophy of a Knife
- 2008 Popular
- 2008 The Turnpike Killer
- 2008 Uncut!
- 2008 Necronos - Tower of Doom
- 2008 Beast
- 2009 Little Big Boy - The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Duncan
- 2009 La petite mort
- 2009 Game Over
- 2009 Unrated
- 2009 Cats
- 2009 Zombie Reanimation
- 2010 15 Till Midnight
- 2010 Avantgarde
- 2010 Non Compos Mentis
- 2010 Little Big Boy
- 2010 Ingression
- 2011 The Super
- 2012 When blackbirds fly
- 2012 Survive
- 2013 Four of a kind
- 2013 Caedes
- 2014 In fear of (USA television series)
- 2014 Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge
- 2014 Sex, Blood and Fairy Tales
- 2014 Carpaneda (documentary)
- 2014 The Curse of Doctor Wolffenstein
- 2014 Gefahr (TV)
- 2015 FENSTER ZUM HOF (TV)
- 2015 THE SIGHT
- 2016 BLOOD ON THE REEL (USA documentary)
- 2016 BITTERSWEET REVENGE
- 2016 GELOSIA
- 2016 AMOR KILLS
Personal life
She married her long-time boyfriend Chris Vasquez in 2006, both live in New York, USA.