Bever-leigh Banfield

Bever-leigh Banfield, M.F.A. is a writer, actress, voice-over artist, producer, host and speaker with a masters degree from the Yale University School of Drama and a B.A. from Stanford University. She has penned numerous magazine articles and celebrity interviews, the most notable of which, published in Essence magazine, won the American Diabetes Association National Media Award for journalism. You Can Change The World: Be A Change Wizard and Get It Like You Like It is her debut nonfiction book.

As an actress, Bever-leigh has performed in many TV dramas and sitcoms, movies, national commercials, and Broadway theatre. She is perhaps best known for portraying the life of author Alex Haley’s grandmother in ROOTS: The Next Generations, T.C. The Plumber’s Helper in Good Times, Grace in Savannah, Edie in Open All Night, a vampire in Cliffhangers, and Lily in Burke’s Law. She has voiced tons of television and radio ads, cartoons, animated films, ABC network announcements, and narrations of planetarium space shows.