Adria Tennor

Biography

Adria began her career as an actress. The grand daughter of Sam Tennor, a song plugger for Irving Berlin, Tennor made her film debut playing a twelve-year old boy in Hal Hartey’s Amateur which premiered in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. She works regularly in television and film, and is most known for her recurring role on AMC’s Mad Men as Betty Draper’s frank-talking friend Joyce Darling, as well as John Goodman’s dutiful if not impish secretary in Michel Hazanavicius’s Academy Award winning film, The Artist. She made her writing debut with StripSearch, her one-woman show based on her studies in pole dancing with Sheila Kelley at her SFactor Studio which played to rave reviews in Los Angeles for over a year and a half. In 2013, Tennor made her foray into producing assisting Doug Blake (The Sessions) on Smothered, a film by John Schneider, where she met Cracked Co-Producer & First AD, David Dwiggins who helped guide her through her directorial debut. Her feature project, Never Been Born, has been selected as one of ten finalists in the Nantucket Film Festival's Tony Cox Screenplay Contest and is in Pre-Production, starring Dale Dickey, Thomas Sadoski and Annika Marks.

Most Known For

NCIS

as Angela Dresser

Criminal Minds

as Diane Goehring

Friends

as Katherine

S.W.A.T.

as Jackie

Monk

as Donna DiMarco

Mad Men

as Joyce Darling

Scandal

as Brenda Swan

Crossing Jordan

as Denice

Private Practice

as Dr. Berman

The Mindy Project

as Gate Agent

Touched by an Angel

as Ruby Rice

Boy Meets World

as Teri

Step by Step

as Candi

Zoo

as Ginny

Greek

as Professor Clarissa Hawn

Harry's Law

as Vivian

Faking It

as Doris

For the People

as Susan Womack

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

as Kids' Salon Owner

Bad Moms

as Conservative Mom