THE ACTOR

As an actor, Cayman has had her hands in numerous projects including the recent Academy nominated film The Social Network. She has been acting since the age of 11 when she started attending summer acting camps. Her love of acting never stopped through junior high and high school where she was a part of musical theater. Cayman continues to hone her acting skills by training in cold reading, scene study and voice over classes. "A trained actor is a working actor," she says.

Cayman Grant was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. She graduated from the University of New Brunswick in May 2001 where she studied marketing and political science. She is an award winning writer/director/produce/actor who has worked in various capacities in both the film and television industries in Atlantic Canada, Nashville, TN, and Los Angeles, CA. She currently resides part-time between Saint John, N.B. and Los Angeles, CA. She is represented by the Gersh Agency, Los Angeles and Mademoiselle Talent Agency, Los Angeles.


THE WRITER / DIRECTOR

Cayman moved to Los Angeles about five years ago to pursue her acting and filmmaking career. Since then, she has capitalized on every moment: writing, producing, directing, and starring in her first film Leap of Fate, which debuted in 2006 at recognized film festivals across North America. Since then, she has completed three more projects. Soup Ladle, which was completed in July 2007, met tremendous success as it has been short listed as “Best Short Film” at several film festivals and has won the title as “Best Film from Away” from the Silver Wave Film Festival in New Brunswick, Canada. Her most recent project His Good Will has garnered tremendous success. It has and continues to play at prestigious film festivals worldwide including Festival de Cannes, LA Shorts Fest and the Chicago International Film Festival where she was awarded the "Best Film by an Emerging Director." His Good Will has also recently been qualified and submitted for 2009 Academy® Award consideration under the “Live Action Short Film” category. She recently has been awarded "Best Producer" at the West Hollywood Film Festival 2008 as well as the winner of "The Gold Kahuna Award" from the Honolulu International Film Festival 2009 and “Most Inspirational Film Award” from the Reel 2 Reel International Film Festival in Vancouver, BC Canada.  His Good Will has also picked up the "Best Cinematography  Award" at the 5th Annual NYC Downtown Short Film Festival 2009 and the "Best Film Overall - Honorable Mention" at  the NYC Downtown Short Film Festival 2009.

As a director, Cayman has had her hand in a number of other projects. She is currently writing her first full-length feature film Return to Sender In the meanwhile, Cayman is working on a number of short films, including Commitment and Tap Dancer which are in pre-production and will be ready for the film festival circuit in Spring 2011.



THE PERSON

Cayman’s road to LA has been a very meaningful meander.  Her early life was spent near a rocky beach in the fishing village of St. Martin’s, New Brunswick, Canada. Being the only girl among four kids, she grew up tough, strong willed, and a little bit of a tomboy.

After her family moved into the city of Saint John - a gritty, ambitious, medium-sized metropolitan area with a lot of heart – Cayman was in her element.  With high school came opportunities to expose Cayman to her love of acting, where she played a number of leading roles in classic musical productions. She didn’t follow her friends to college, but instead, chose to travel the world. Her acting career was temporarily put aside but not for too long.

Having temporarily satisfied her curiosities of world cultures and people, Cayman settled back in Saint John for her university career in business and political science. As in every other aspect of her young life, she demonstrated her unstoppable will to succeed. She became the university’s first female student union president, instituted the sports team’s first campus mascot “Seamore”, worked on the institution’s most successful fundraising event, won numerous leadership recognitions and culminated her university years by being chosen Class Valedictorian.

After a stint as marketing director for Canada’s renowned East Coast Music Awards, she headed to Nashville, where she began her pursuit as an actor and film director.