Saturn Awards 2003

Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Cynthia Lea Clark began her acting career with the Repertory Theatre of New Orleans, under Miss June Havoc. As former a Miss Chicago (Miss USA), she continued school, graduating from Northwestern University (multiple degreed), attended nursing school, and became a Firefighter Paramedic. After working as an actress in Chicago, she moved to Los Angeles where she worked on many television shows, such as DAYS OF OUR LIVES and STAT, while continuing her education with a Masters in Psychology and then a Doctorate of Psychology. While working on STAT, she was stalked which led her to work in Forensic Psychopathology. She has over 70 interviews with serial killers, mass murderers, etc. She founded CrimeInMind with former FBI agent and author Rae Monet. Today she mixes Forensics with writing and acting.

Screen Actors Guild’s Activities

SAG Conservatory Hollywood -- 20 years

Cynthia Lea Clark, Donald P. Bellisario, Debra Pratt, James Darren

Salute to the Western (Celebrity Evening at the AFI)

Produce Actors Evenings -- 7 years

Produce Summer Seminars -- 11 years

Produce Special Artists Evenings -- 15 years

Testify Privacy Act SB262 1999

Casting Committee -- 5 years

Trial Board -- 2 years

Special Events -- CD ROM Seminar

Board of Directors

AFTRA Activities

Convention Delegate -- 18 years

Nominating Committee -- 2 years

Woman’s Committee

Special Events -- 2 years

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

Producer Performer’s REP Group Paramount -- 2 years

Producer Performer’s REP Group Universal -- 1 year

Activities Committee -- 3 years

CO-Chair Rancho Los Amigos Committee -- 2 years

Membership Committee -- 3 years

Awards Committee -- 4 years

Executive Peer Group Committee -- 6 years

New Building Committee

Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy and Horror

Saturn Awards -- 4 years

CO-design cover 2003

Community Services

Special Olympics -- 10 years

Board of Directors Olive Crest Children’s Foundation -- 1 year

St. Charles Sponsor Chair -- 1 year

Drama Club Director -- St. Charles

Red Cross Disaster Management

Education and Careers:

BS Northwestern University (Comm./Psych.)

Summa Cum Laude

Masters Newport University (Psych.)

Doctorate Newport University (Psych.)

Northwestern University Nursing School

St. Francis Paramedic School

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Forensic Psychopathologist/Expert Witness

Published Author

Editor Near North News, Chicago

Elected to many Who’s Who

Actress

Writer

ACTING:

Stat, regular Danny Arnold ABC

Days of Our Lives, 6 years, NBC

Science of Sex, BBC

A Current Affair Docudrama FOX

and many more

Miscellaneous

Former Miss Chicago (Miss Illinois, USA)

Member Theater Communications Group

R-EMT-P National registration

WRITING

Member Mystery Writers of America

Member Romance Writer’s of America

Member Kiss of Death Chapter RWA

Q & A Chair, Ask an Expert, 2005, 2006, 2007

Vice President KOD, 2006, 2007

Member Sisters in Crime

Member Short Mystery Fiction Society

Member International Women’s Writers Guild

Member International Thriller Writers, Inc.

Staff writer ITW Newsletter

FMAM Review Contributor and Coordinator

Wrote/Directed/Produced I AM WE ARE 2001

HISTORY IN A YEAR 2002

PSYCHOLOGY

Member American College of Forensic Examiners International

Certified in Homeland Security Level 4

Member of the DOE Network

R-EMT-P National registration