Marathoner Tanna Frederick will be Participating in Ojai's 2015 Clif Bar Mountain 2 Beach Marathon

Actress Tanna Frederick will be participating in the 2015 Clif Bar Mountain 2 Beach Marathon on May 24, 2015 which starts in Ojai and ends in Ventura River Valley. She took up running in college and says, “It was a sanctuary in my life which has kept me centered.”

Frederick 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. She recently ran in 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: San Diego Rock n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego on May 31, 2015 and Los Angeles Rock n’ Roll Half Marathon in Los Angeles on Oct. 25, 2015. Frederick is running for her non-profit Project Save our Surf which promotes clean oceans and water.

Tanna Frederick can be seen this fall in Henry Jaglom’s romantic mystery “Ovation” starring opposite James Denton. The story is 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. In August, she begins production on “Offside,” a comedy where Frederick stars as a relationship therapist who turns her Women’s Life Satisfaction therapy group into an amateur soccer team in order to win back her runaway husband. She’ll co-produce the film.

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.