Ramona Pringle is a Canadian actress, journalist, television host and media producer whose work explores identity and emotional experience through the convergence of the roles of performer, director, player and voyeur.
Ramona was born into a rock n' roll art family, the daughter of multidisciplinary artists Michaele Jordana and Douglas Pringle. Pioneers of Canadian synthesizer music and new wave punk rock before Ramona was born, her parents shared the stage with the Ramones and other trailblazers at New York's infamous CBGS's.

...It's natural then that many people ask Ramona if she was named after The Ramones. In fact her name means "the protector" in Spanish, so as to the REAL origin of her name...

By the time Ramona was 14, she was following in the family footsteps, singing in the band "UnderRage" with a few other kids from school.

The band appeared on TVO's "Off The Hook", and the local television station recorded the single "Snow Queen". Based on her experience in the studio, Ramona decided that she wanted to start acting professionally. She won the first audition she was sent out on and soon she was hired to shoot several more commercials.

People in the business quickly began to recognize her talent and unique face, and she began gaining work in film and television, but acting wasn't all that Ramona was up to.

An incognito nerd, Ramona was an Honor roll student at a high school for the arts, and when she wasn't on set, she could be found in the library, the darkroom, or the computer lab.

Schooled in the digital arts, Ramona was captivated by the power of new technology to unite all of her creative interests, and her fate as an interdisciplinary artist was sealed.

Ramona's spunky attitude and unforgettable face first grabbed our attention with a one-two punch, as Mindy, the mischievous prom queen of Greenfield High in the Disney favorite "Model Behavior," and as the mythic Heidi character in an international Ricola campaign, which also developed a cult following and saturated airways.

Meanwhile, Ramona was developing her own voice as an artist. Her graduating project caused an unforgettable stir in the school halls, as she poignantly captured the angst, boredom, and longing of adolescence, in a digital series of film stills entitled "Detention," casting herself in the fictional series, the first of many multi-media projects in which she would use herself as an "avatar" to explore various worlds and experiences.
Ramona began working with acting coach David Rotenberg, and furthering her education at York University in Toronto, where she graduated Cum Laude with a BFA Honors degree in Film and Video.

This is where she learned to be as comfortable behind the camera as she is in front of it... And to be as fluid in the editing suite as in script writing.

Ramona's short film "Good Morning Angel Face" which she wrote, directed and starred in, won a spot in the Showcase launch of the Diva network, and was broadcast nationally on television and online.

After winning a coveted internship at Bunim Murray in L.A working alongside the pioneers of reality television, Ramona returned to Toronto for her final year of school, eager to explore new ways of creating compelling and evocative work, and integrated elements of reality production into classical dramatic filmmaking, with "Cliffside Junction" which had several successful screenings, including at the NY Film and Video Awards.
Upon graduating, Ramona was recruited as a host for CBC's national daily series, "The X", reporting on music, film and popculture.

Simultaneously, she landed roles in the Angelica Houston-directed telefeature "Riding the Bus with my Sister" and in Ron Howard's "Cinderella Man."

Ramona continued to hone her skills as an interdisciplinary artist, integrating acting, newmedia, and video in her projects.

As part of the Peak Media Collective, Ramona helped conceptualize the content for The Media Tree, and edited the 96-screen, synchronized, three storey video installation for Casino Niagara, utilizing her creative skills in digital arts to develop a technique of layering and frame animation using multiple video files, to create an exquisite ambient experience.

Yes, Ramona is a geek. Just ask anyone who has ever heard her rant about the power of human imagination, the Kuleshov effect and the suspension of disbelief, or her enthusiastic curiosity about the impact of interactivity on the future of storytelling.

As someone who proudly sneaks science fiction film theory into any conversation, it's only fitting that the growing world of video gaming has come to fascinate her.

Ramona spent 2007 working as a Teaching Assistant in two classes on game theory, design and development, at a University in Canada. Here she was inspired to continue her exploration of identity: Questioning "what is 'real' human interaction and emotional experience in virtual environments."

...At the same time as she was discussing genres from MMORPG's to shoot em ups, she landed a role opposite Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti in the New Line feature "Shoot 'Em Up."

Ramona says "I was drawn to the role after seeing the incredible, intricate story boards, that the director had created. For someone as visual as myself, having his vision translated onto the page like that, made filming this project a really unique experience. My role as an actress is to transfer that vision to the screen, and bring another depth of life and spirit to the role. I believe that sometimes more can be said without words, and in this case, those storyboards are a testament to that."

This fall, as "Shoot Em Up" is set for it's theatrical release, Ramona is planning to begin her Masters. Asked what inspires her in the work that she does, she quotes Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

"As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it."