After I posted the item last week about Emily Longstreth, I had a reader send me in another actress who has gone missing. Charlotte Ayanna has to be one of my favorite rags to riches stories. You can read her entire history on her IMDB page, but basically from the time she was one she was in foster homes and separated from her siblings who were sent to different foster homes. Her mother lost custody of all the children because of mental problems.
At the age of 17, while still in foster care, her foster mother bet her $150 that she was too chicken to try out for Miss Vermont Teen USA. Charlotte won and then won Miss Teen USA in 1993 wearing a $37 dress and was reunited with her siblings.
In Hollywood she starred alongside Adrien Brody in Love The Hard Way and played Ethan Hawke's wife in Training Day. Her last appearance was in 2007 in the movie, The Insatiable, and she has not been heard from since.
I think we should put Dateline on this and get to the bottom of it.
ReplyDeleteaww...that's a great rags-to-riches story. here's to hoping she's ok.
ReplyDeletei hope that she is okay too. maybe she needs time out for herself?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.myspace.com/charlotteayanna
ReplyDeletehere is, what looks like, her myspace page.
I remember that she was adopted in her late teens(17 or 18?). Her platform with Miss USA was foster care.
ReplyDeleteShe was so haunting in "Love The Hard Way". She is also very beautiful and I can not understand why she has not been making any movies. I hope she is ok.
ReplyDeleteI think she's the nanny for Brangelina. Angelina wanted to adopt her when she heard about the foster child situation, but when she heard Charlotte was all grown up, decided to hire her as a nanny instead. That's why you never see her because Brangelina's nannies are invisible.
ReplyDeleteHee hee.
Wouldn't that be something, though?
Last login was January 31st. She is around somewhere doing probably other things.
ReplyDeleteAnyone ever determine what happened to the other girl?
I think I remember her story. Didn't she have a falling out/split with her foster mother after she won Miss Teen?
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ReplyDeleteIt would certainly explain why Brad was giving backrubs to the nanny.
I don't think that myspace is hers. It looks like a fan page -- too much stuff in the third person.
ReplyDeleteShe was amazing in "Love the Hard Way" .. here is hoping she is just off being married and having a baby or something happy and normal as opposed to strung out in skid row. : /
ReplyDeleteThese "Whatever Happened To...?" posts kind of creep me out--women sometimes NEED to drop off the face of the earth, know what I mean?
ReplyDeletewasn't she is the movie where a bunch of famous actress play strippers? iguana blue or something
ReplyDeleteCharlotte is now married with me and she wants to have a normal life.That's why she hasn't been in the movie lately. But we're making a movie of our own lol.
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