Dawna Lee Heising
Actor, Producer and Director
Dawna Lee Heising has acted in over 220 feature films, including Param Gill’s Bad President, starring Eddie Griffin, and Alien Storm, starring Tom Arnold.
She has won over 490 film festival awards, and is trained in Tang Soo Do martial arts, ballet, and pole dancing. She is a former Miss Los Angeles Chinatown, Ms. US World, Ms. World, Ms. Universe, Miss San Francisco Universe, Miss Orange County Universe, Miss California Hemisphere and Mrs. California United States, among many other titles.
She was the Queen of the 2021 Kaiju Film Festival, the 2019 Hollywood Silver Screen Film Festival Queen, and the 2018 WIND International Film Festival Queen.
She has a B.S. Degree in Business Management and MBA from Pepperdine University. Dawna is the VP of Aki Aleong’s Mustard Seed Media Group. Her uncle is legendary director of photography Tak Fujimoto (Silence of the Lambs, Sixth Sense) and her cousins George Daugherty and David Wong won a Primetime Emmy Award for Peter and the Wolf on Broadway.
- 50 Best Actress Awards for Craig Railsback’s Down and Out in Vampire Hills;
- 45 Best Actress Awards for Craig Railsback’s Dark Classics Monologue from Lady Macbeth;
- 26 Best Actress Awards for Sandy Slaven’s The Rose Wagon;
- 30 Best Actress Awards for 2022 Demo Reel and 2023 Comedy Demo Reel;
- 15 Best Actress Awards for Rod Smith’s The Legacy;
- 12 Best Actress Awards for Dustin Ferguson’s Cobra Strike Force;
- 6 Best Actress Awards for Walter Hochbrueckner’s The Paradise Motel;
- 40 Best Music Video Awards for Nathan Castiel’s Black City Nights;
- Elite Martial Arts Spirit Award at the 2023 Golden Gate Martial Arts Hall of Honors;
- Actress/Model/Action Star of the Year at the 2022 Official USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame Awards;
- Best Actress for role of Barbie in Dustin Ferguson’s Nemesis 5 at the 2018 LANFA Film Festival;
- Best Actress for Jared Masters’ Teacher’s Day at the 2014 Shockfest Film Festival;
- Best Supporting Actress for Gregory Blair’s Garden Party Massacre at the Lucky Strike Film Festival 2019;
- 8 Best Ensemble Awards for Gregory Blair’s Garden Party Massacre;
- Best Television Host for Eye on Entertainment at the 2017 WIND International Film Festival;
- Outstanding Television Host for Eye on Entertainment at the 2013 EOTM Awards;
- Actress of the Year at the 2018 Official USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame Awards.
Known For
Film
Alien Storm
Cursed Waters
The Witches of the Sands
American Trash
Live Laugh Die
WordLotto
The Nightgown
Cocaine Cougar
Cobra Strike Force
Big Freakin Snake
In3dragon
Down and Out in Vampire Hills
The Legacy
The Rose Wagon
The Boss Man
Roller Junkies
The Paradise Motel
Quartz Vein
The Horrific Evil Monsters
Apex Predators
Bad President
Bubba's Dead: The Final Massacre
A Pyrrhic Victory
Social Distance
Canaan Land
Tales From The Campire 3
Black Mamba
Moon of the Blood Beast
RoboWoman
Los Angeles Lifers
Meathook Massacre 4
House of Pain
Amityville Clownhouse
Book of Choices
Nemesis 5: The New Model
The Job Interview
Absolute Vow
Garden Party Massacre
Vape Warz
Meathook Massacre II
White Slaves of K-Town
Rickmans Cobs
Beach Massacre at Kill Devil Hills
Ballet of Blood
Samurai Cop 2 Deadly Vengeance
Natural Born Filmmakers
Paranormal Extremes: Text Messages from the Dead
Club Lingerie
Deadly Punkettes
After School Massacre
Special Agent Kids
Slink
Deadly Revisions
Boner
Bullets & Stilletos
Another Superhero Movie
Music
Katy Perry - Woman's World
Jung kook ft. Latto - Seven
Tai Verdes - Let's Go To Hell
Always You - Black City Nights
Rolan Bolan - Children of the Revolution
Carly Rae Jepsen - Your Type
Travie McCoy ft. Sia - Golden
Bastille vs. Grades - Torn Apart
Electric Guest - This Head I Hold
Interviews
Social Media and External Content
