Angela Featherstone's remarkable journey began with her emancipation from foster care at the tender age of 17. Within a year, she catapulted to the pinnacle of success as Canada's top model, gracing the cover of Flare magazine in September, which shattered all prior sales records. This groundbreaking achievement led her to expand her horizons, relocating to New York, where she signed with the esteemed NEXT modeling agency.
As a fashion model, Angela Featherstone traversed the globe, but her true calling lay in the realm of acting. She deliberately downplayed her striking features to take on unconventional roles, ultimately emerging as an actress renowned for her exceptional versatility. Her most notable performances include playing Chloe in Friends, The Maid on Seinfeld, and the fiancée who left Adam Sandler's character at the altar in The Wedding Singer. More recently, she appeared in the roles of Maggie on Showtime's Ray Donovan and Jame on HBO's Girls.
Beyond her acting career, Angela Featherstone has made significant contributions to the world of television and publishing. She has created sitcoms for Sony, DreamWorks, and NBC, as well as penned nonfiction pieces for Time, Jane, Flare, The Huffington Post, Dame, and Zoomer. Her essay about childhood trauma, God Said No, was published in the 2014 edition of Gargoyle Magazine and received a Pushcart Prize nomination.
As a dedicated advocate for children in foster care, Angela Featherstone has volunteered with the Children's Action Network, curating their Heart Gallery from 2011 to 2019 and serving on their Winter Wonderland committee in 2014 and 2015. She has also mentored a child in foster care through Kidsave from 2011 to 2020 and lectured at the ICAN Nexus Conference, focusing on the effects of violence within the home on children.
In addition to her advocacy work, Angela Featherstone has explored the realm of photography, curating the exhibition "Fuck Pretty" at the Robert Berman Gallery in 2011, featuring the work of important and emerging female photographers. She has also collaborated with Raymond Pettibon and The Niche Makers on the song "Coattail Glide" and served as an adjunct lecturer at the UCLA Professional Producing Program.
Most recently, Angela Featherstone made her directorial debut with the 7-minute film L'Étranger in 2022. As a director, she brings together her extensive experience in fashion, working with renowned photographers and magazines, as well as her decades in the film industry, refined sense of storytelling as an essayist, passion for philosophy, and love of creating safe spaces for collaboration, to create a movement of aesthetic bliss.
