Marathon Runner Tanna Frederick will be Participating in San Diego's Rock n' Roll Marathon

Actress Tanna Frederick will be participating in the San Diego Rock ‘n Roll Marathon on May 31, 2015. She took up running in college and says, “It was a sanctuary in my life which has kept me centered.”

Tanna has consistently followed Hal Higdon’s advanced 2 schedule and can be found running near her home in Santa Monica, Venice and the Palisades.

During a marathon in Chicago, she felt overwhelmed when she crossed the finish line. The sense of joy that came from strangers cheering made her feel very accomplished. She thought “Wow, this is more than anyone will ever cheer me at the Oscars.”

She recently ran in the L. A. Marathon, her time was 4:12. Her goal time is sub 4 hours.

Last weekend she ran the Sunset Strip Half Marathon and her time was 1:46:58 / 8:01 avg pace .

She will also be participating in the following upcoming marathons:

2015 Clif Bar Mountain 2 Beach Marathon and Half May 24, 2015

Los Angeles Rock n’ Roll Half Marathon, Los Angeles (full) Oct. 25, 2015

She is running for her non-profit Project Save our Surf which promotes clean oceans and water.

Tanna Frederick recently wrapped production on Henry Jaglom’s romantic mystery “Ovation” starring opposite James Denton. The story, set in the backstage world of theatre where the cast struggles to keep their play afloat while they search for a murder suspect amongst themselves, will hit theatres in October 2015.

Frederick is currently starring in Jaglom’s original play “Train to Zakopané” at the Edgemar Theatre in Santa Monica. The play is based upon true events that occurred in the life of Jaglom’s father as he crossed Poland on a train in 1928. Anti-Semitism was, at that time, rife in much of Europe, especially in Poland. In the play, a successful Russian businessman (Jaglom’s father) meets a young nurse in the Polish army (Tanna) on a train-trip to Warsaw, and he is faced with a life-changing dilemma when he discovers that the nurse he is drawn to and who is enchanted by him is fiercely anti-Semitic.

Next year Frederick will star as a single mother who returns to Iowa (Frederick’s hometown) to deal with her past in “Garner, Iowa”.

Last year she starred in a year long performance of “The Rainmaker” at the Edgemar Theatre. The Los Angeles Times gave it Critics’ Choice and said, “The standout of this terrific cast is Tanna Frederick’s acerbically yearning Lizzie…It’s a transformation not to be missed.”

Frederick’s performance in her first feature with Jaglom, “Hollywood Dreams,” earned her Best Actress at WorldFest Houston, Montana International Film Festival, Fargo Film Festival and the Wild Rose Film Festival. The film took Best Picture honors at the San Luis Obispo Film Festival and to Best Comedy at WorldFest Houston. She was named Method Fest’s “Performer to Watch” and has also received the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival’s “Maverick” Award.

Off-screen, Frederick has proved just as driven and talented. A fitness aficionado who runs daily, Frederick ranked 52nd out of 1,321 women in her division in the LA Marathon. She is a second-degree Tae Kwon Do blackbelt and a passionate surfer. She founded “Project Save Our Surf,” a non-profit that promotes clean oceans and water. She is also founder of the Iowa Film Festival, now in its’ seventh year and was named recipient of the University of Iowa’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012.