Yunuen Pardo
Honored By Imagen Awards Nomination in “Best Web Series: Comedy”
Hollywood, CA —Mexican born and raised, Chicago adopted, Yunuen Pardo is a young actress and now producer who is relishing the reality that her first producing project caught the attention of the Imagen Foundation.
She’s flying into Los Angeles just in time to walk the Red Carpet of the 30th Annual Imagen Awards on Friday, August 21, 2015 at the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Under Covers (Arrow & Key Productions), a comedy web series she co-produced has been nominated in the “Best Web Series: Comedy” category along with some very impressive competitors: Los Cowboys (Corral360) and Oh Noah! (Thirteen/WNET New York Public Media).
Yunuen is nominated along with her co-producer partner Carlo Lorenzo Garcia (FOX TV’s Empire, NBC’s Chicago PD), who is also the show’s creator and writer. Now with this Imagen Awards nomination, they are off to a great start.
“Carlo and I decided early on that we would only create projects that will open doors for us,” Pardo said. “Our first project, Cowl Girl, which featured me in the starring role, is currently in post production.”
Under Covers is about two mediocre detectives who bumble around Chicago solving crimes of the heart, all while trying to find their own piece of the pie. “It is very funny, and we’re humbled by the Imagen Foundation’s nomination. They totally get the quirkiness of this crime comedy.”
As an actor, Yunuen, is a classically trained actor having graduated from Columbia College with a BA in Theater and Performing Arts Management. She’s been a part of the Conservatory at the Steppenwolf Theater and was part of the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.
Her theater accomplishments are as impressive as her producing work. She’s earned credits at the Steppenwolf Theater, The Goodman Theater, at the Victory Gardens and at Aquijon Theater. Recently, Ms. Pardo produced and stars in Cowl Girl, a TV pilot about an agoraphobic fan girl. This summer she filmed an action film, Belzebuth, in Mexico, directed by Emilio Portes. Here she costars with Tobin Bell, Tate Ellington and Joaquín Cosío. She also just finished working on Call Center, a Chicago indie. Pardo is starring in the TV pilot Ouroboros, a suspense/horror in Mexico, and in pre-production in the feature film Las Alas Rotas del Cuervo with Ofelia Medina, Gustavo Sánchez Parra and Silverio Palacios.
Yunuen Pardo as Penelope at Steppenwolf Theater, El Nogalar
Yunuen’s work in Chicago and Mexico seem to be endless and now she’s heading to Hollywood where she is determined to break new barriers as a busy working Latina actress. “Chicago is where my acting career was born nine years ago when I first arrived. And, now it is such an honor to also be a working actress in my native Mexico,” affirmed Pardo.
Yunuen Pardo, chosen as one of the Hottest New Faces of Chicago Theater” — Chris Jones/Chicago Tribune
And, Yunuen (pronounced June), is a smart, talented and beautiful woman with a Mexican Purépecha name that means the “moon. ” She arrives to the Imagen Awards empowered with her experience and training ready to make inroads in Hollywood.
“I’ve come close before,” she added. “In 2010, I wrote, produced and starred in the short film Another Life, directed by Aric Jackson, we received a second place People’s Choice Award.”
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