Jillian Armenante
(Donna Kozlowski-Pant)

Jillian Armenante's feature film credits include Moonlight Mile, Girl, Interrupted, Frankie and Johnny Are Married, Delivered, The Wright Brothers, Trust Me, Seven Mysteries of Life, Dogfight and Nowhere Man.

Armenante also has an extensive theater background. She played Melony in The Cider House Rules at the Atlantic Theater in New York City, the Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. For this role, she received a Garland Award and a Theatreworld Award for Debut on the New York Stage. For Circle X Theatre in Los Angeles, she cowrote, produced and directed Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog, which received both the 2002 Theatre LA Ovation Award and the L.A. Weekly Award for World Premiere of a Musical. She also cowrote, produced and directed In Flagrante Gothicto at Circle X in 2000. The show received Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle Awards for Writing, Directing and Production as well as the Ted Schmitt Award for Most Outstanding Debut of a New Play. The production also won the L.A. Weekly Award for Playwriting and Comedy Ensemble and Garland Awards for Production, Direction, Writing, Ensemble and Lead Actress Alice Dodd. As associate artistic director for Circle X's second season, Armenante directed and produced the world premiere Great Men of Science, Nos., 21 & 22. The show received a Theatre LA Ovation Award for Best Production in a Small Theatre and the LA Weekly Award for Best Production.

Her television credits include guest appearances in The West Wing, Cracker, Medicine Ball and Northern Exposure.

Armenante was born in Paterson, N.J., and lives in Los Angeles. Her birthday is July 5.