Adria Tennor

Biography

Adria began her career as an actress. The grand daughter of Sam Tennor, a song plugger for Irving Berlin, Tennor made her film debut playing a twelve-year old boy in Hal Hartey’s Amateur which premiered in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. She works regularly in television and film, and is most known for her recurring role on AMC’s Mad Men as Betty Draper’s frank-talking friend Joyce Darling, as well as John Goodman’s dutiful if not impish secretary in Michel Hazanavicius’s Academy Award winning film, The Artist. She made her writing debut with StripSearch, her one-woman show based on her studies in pole dancing with Sheila Kelley at her SFactor Studio which played to rave reviews in Los Angeles for over a year and a half. In 2013, Tennor made her foray into producing assisting Doug Blake (The Sessions) on Smothered, a film by John Schneider, where she met Cracked Co-Producer & First AD, David Dwiggins who helped guide her through her directorial debut. Her feature project, Never Been Born, has been selected as one of ten finalists in the Nantucket Film Festival's Tony Cox Screenplay Contest and is in Pre-Production, starring Dale Dickey, Thomas Sadoski and Annika Marks.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Friends (1994) — Katherine
2. Bad Moms (2016) — Conservative Mom
3. Criminal Minds (2005) — Diane Goehring
4. You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) — Kids' Salon Owner
5. The Artist (2011) — Zimmer's Assistant
6. NCIS (2003) — Angela Dresser
7. S.W.A.T. (2017) — Jackie
8. Mad Men (2007) — Joyce Darling
9. Monk (2002) — Donna DiMarco
10. The First Wives Club (1996) — Young Annie
11. Scandal (2012) — Brenda Swan
12. Zoo (2015) — Ginny
13. Boy Meets World (1993) — Teri
14. Step by Step (1991) — Candi
15. Private Practice (2007) — Dr. Berman
16. The D Train (2015) — Classmate - Wendy
17. The Mindy Project (2012) — Gate Agent
18. Touched by an Angel (1994) — Ruby Rice
19. Faking It (2014) — Doris
20. Crossing Jordan (2001) — Denice
21. Greek (2007) — Professor Clarissa Hawn
22. Resurrected (2023) — One Life Activist #2
23. Amateur (1994) — Kid reading 'The Odyssey'
24. For the People (2018) — Susan Womack
25. Harry's Law (2011) — Vivian
26. Gary Unmarried (2008) — Waitress
27. Mulaney (2014) — Flight Attendant
28. Headhunter (2005)
29. Smothered (2016) — Mom
30. I'm Losing You (1998) — Assistant Director
31. A Snowy Day in Oakland (2023) — Olivia
32. You (2009) — Hostile Witness
33. One Moment (2021) — Caroline Minogue
34. Newly Single (2017) — Waitress
35. Psychos & Socios (2020) — Leslie
36. Friday Night (2016) — Claire
37. Judy's Got a Gun (2007) — Donna Kenzo
38. Boys Don't Cry (1995)
39. Homewrecker (2025) — Jen
40. Incident on Marmont Avenue (2012) — Daphne

Directed

1. Pie (2018) — Director