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Yeniffer Behrens to Guest Star on GREY'S ANATOMY

By: Oct. 31, 2018
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Yeniffer Behrens to Guest Star on GREY'S ANATOMY  Image

Award-winning Venezuelan Actress-Director-Producer, Founder and Co-Owner of True Form Films, Yeniffer Behrens will be guest-starring in the highly acclaimed prime-time Television series Grey's Anatomy.

Now on its 15th season, Grey's Anatomy, from creator Shonda Rhimes, is an award winning medical drama series which focuses on a group of young doctors at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, who began their careers at the facility as interns. One of the young doctors and the show's namesake, Meredith Grey, is the daughter of a famous surgeon. Grey struggles to maintain relationships with her colleagues, particularly the hospital's one-time chief of surgery, Richard Webber, due to a pre-existing relationship between them - Webber and Meredith's mother had a personal relationship when Meredith was young. The series first episode aired March 27, 2005

Behrens 's guest starring appearance as character Laura Medina will be part of the episode "Flowers Grow Out of My Grave".

Award-winning Venezuelan Actress, Producer, Writer & Director Yeniffer Behrens grew up being fully bilingual. She trained in dance and modeling, pursued acting and participated in beauty pageants, winning Miss Teen '89. She received a scholarship from Miami-Dade two-year college, where she trained in acting in addition to 3 years of private coaching/training. Yeniffer is a SAG-AFTRA actress who has acted in English and Spanish commercials, films, national and international primetime and daytime shows, and has produced independent films in Venezuela and Mexico, as well as in the United States.

Her film credits include: El Contratista, The Specialist (opposite Sylvester Stallone), Seven Pounds (opposite Will Smith and Rosario Dawson), Angel Blue, A Day Without a Mexican, American Flyer, Por tu Culpa, and two faith-based films The Pastor directed by Paco Aguilar and Hector Echavarría and in The Law of Moises written and directed by Crystal Barnes. Her short films include: Mi Amor, Borderlines, Him and Her, It Can Only Be Used Once, and The Mind Conjurers.

The short film Mi Amor, winner of the 2018 Audience Choice Award at the Panamanian International Film Festival in Los Angeles and Audience Choice Award at the 2018 Highland Park Film Festival marked her directorial debut.

Series credits include Grey's Anatomy, American Horror Story, Nip/Tuck, In Plain Sight, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Desperate Housewives, Sons of Anarchy, East Los High, Boston Legal, Jag, The Agency, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and What Happened to Rachel Madnow. She had a recurring role in the Venezuelan show El País de las Mujeres, and the American soap opera General Hospital.

Her production credits include award-winning web series Encounters, award-winning feature After School, and From Now On directed by legendary actress Ivonne Coll; Mi Amor, Him and Her, The Power of One, SinVergüenzas, Between the Lines, Fighting Chance, Create Option C: My Fighting Chance with Cancer, The Real Faces of Dialysis, The Shifting, Homebound, and Unknowns.

Yeniffer is also Founder, CEO and Co-owner of True Form Films, Inc. with husband Mauricio Mendoza and business partner DeWayne Cox. True Form Films creates American-Latino stories that educate and deliver a message. They seek to deliver unapologetic, courageous and powerful storytelling, rich stories of family, survival and triumph, and that show the strength of the human spirit.

Yeniffer's charitable work includes fund raising and collaboration with the Susan G. Komen Foundation fighting against breast cancer. She served on the 2017 executive board of the BIBO Foundation celebrating and supporting women from all walks of life, and received the Reflection BIBO Award for Outstanding Media Innovator. She fund-raises and collaborates with El Faro orphanage in Tijuana, and is an advocate for dual language education, creating the Multicultural Harmony Gala Event in 2008-09 benefiting this cause.



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