Chantel Riley Biography
Chantel Riley is a Canadian-Jamaican actor. She is famously known for Race (2016), Assassin’s Creed: Origins (2017) and Wynonna Earp (2016).
Riley made her stage debut in 2011 playing the character of Nala in a German production of The Lion King in Hamburg. The following year she played the same character on Broadway.
A move into film followed and she made her debut in the Jesse Owens biopic Race. Her most notable television works include the role of Kate in Wynonna Earp and the leading role of Trudy Clarke in Frankie Drake Mysteries.
In 2018 she joined the cast of the upcoming series Pearson. Moreover, she has also voice acted in the Assassins Creed games. She voices Layla Hassan in Assassins Creed Origins and Assassins Creed Odyssey.
Chantel Riley Age | How Old Is Chantel Riley? | Chantel Riley Birth Sign
Chantel Riley was on June 27, 1986, in Toronto, Canada. Her birth sign is Cancer and as of 2019, she is 33 years old.
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Chantel Riley Net Worth
The famous actress has accumulated a huge fortune from her acting career. She has made appearances in various movies and television shows. All those have helped in raising her net worth. Her current net worth is estimated to be between $ 100,000 and $ 800,000.
Chantel Riley Parents | Chantel Riley Siblings
Riley was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. We do not have information about her parent’s names. However, she respects her father, who sacrificed a lot for the sake of the family and adored her mother for being supportive in the journey of her life.
Chantel spends pleasant and memorable family-time with her parents and siblings. She is the youngest child of three in the family, and both are her older brothers.
Chantel Riley Husband | Chantel Boyfriend
Surprisingly, the beautiful actress has not been caught in dating rumors with anyone. She might have had a boyfriend or perhaps has one secretly. Chantel Riley is not married yet, but she does address her future husband in some of her Twitter posts.
Well, who knows? But everyone must know that celebrities’ lives can be very much in the spotlight and low-profiled simultaneously. And many live that life while leaving the public to make various assumptions.
Chantel Riley Song | Chantel Riley Fresh
Besides being an actress, Chantel Riley is a musician. She sings songs of R&B/soul genre. One of her songs had lyrics that went “fresh, boom-bap imma touch it”.
Chantel Riley Movies And TV Shows | Chantel Riley Assassin’s Creed | Chantel Riley Wynonna Earp
- 2019 Pearson
- 2018 Assassin’s Creed
- 2018 Wynonna Earp
- 2017-2018 Frankie Drake Mysteries
- 2016 Under Their Little Red Riding Hoods
- 2016 Race
- 2015 A Teacher’s Nightmare
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Chantel Riley Interview
Q: You’re busy, how do you do it all?
Chantel Riley: Well, by the grace of God honestly. [Jumped] from Wynonna Earp to Frankie Drake Mysteries to filming Pearson, which brought us into this year so it’s been nonstop going, but it’s also been nonstop blessings. I’m looking at it more like a blessing rather than, ‘Oh God, I’m just so over it.
Chantel Riley: There are artists out there that aren’t working right now and so it is difficult. So to be in my journey — where I am — I’m grateful for every single second of it. I feel like I don’t deserve to say, ‘Oh, God, I’m just so busy and how do I do this. No, I’m grateful for every single second. Keep coming, keep coming, thank you, Lord.
Q: So one’s in Chicago, two are in Canada, so that makes it not so bad …
Chantel Riley: Well, Pearson, we shot out here in LA and then we did the external stuff in Chicago. ‘Frankie’ we shoot in Toronto so I get to be home in the summertime. In the summertime because I do not want to be there in the winter. Then for Wynonna Earp, we shot in Calgary so it was cold.
Q: What drew you to ‘Frankie Drake?’
Chantel Riley: The story, you don’t really see anything like that on TV, especially the period that it’s in, the 1920s. There’s a bunch of mystery shows out there but I feel like ours stands out because we have two female leads, actually, four female leads and women that are working together solving crimes, kicking a..,
Chantel Riley: just fearless women who have these genuine bonds on and off the screen. Also to be a Black woman in a show like this, you don’t see that ever. To be a part of that is a huge opportunity to tell another story that wasn’t being told.
Q: The show is set in the 1920s, how does a woman of color fit into a detective agency during this time?
Chantel Riley: Our story is not historically correct. We have some fantasy as well. But of course we have the aspects of history as well, some race does come in there as well. We can’t fully do a show without having some mention of race in that time period and so that’s why the show has a great balance of both; touching a little bit but not fully going into it because we all know what it really was.
Q: What do you particularly like about your ‘Frankie’ character?
Chantel Riley: I love Trudy’s fearlessness. I often take pointers on her because there are some creepy places that she ends up and things that she does, I’m like, ‘Girl, I would never … ’ So I feel I have been able to take some of that one in my life, just being a little less scared of things. Whereas Trudy is just ready to do it. She loves her job and the excitement of it all.
Q: Do you or did you read mysteries?
Chantel Riley: I used to read Baby-Sitters Club and Nancy Drew (mysteries). I watch a lot of what my friends call “crime porn” on Netflix, which is like Making of a Murderer and that kind of stuff. So I’m really into that; solving cases that have gone unsolved. I start one episode and I’m like ‘Wait a minute! What happened next?’
Q: That’s the ‘Nerd’ thing, yeah, yeah?
Chantel Riley: Yeah! It’s there. I’m not afraid to admit it (laughs).
Q: Tell us about your other show, the Suit’s spinoff, Pearson.
Chantel Riley: We started shooting the backdoor pilot from Suit’s seventh season. It was kind of their introduction to Jessica Pearson’s (Torres)’s new life. I play Angela Cooke who is Jessica’s cousin. [Jessica] decides to come back to Chicago because she feels she needs time to give back to the city she left when she was young and I kind of welcome her with not-so-open arms.
Q: That will make your part more interesting.
Chantel Riley: Right! I think so too! And the contrast where you see Jessica Pearson, this confident, you-can’t-tell-her-nothing-she’s-always-got-an-answer against Angela Cook, who is a challenge to her and tries to shut down everything that she tries to offer.
Q: Were you a Suits follower before?
Chantel Riley: I wasn’t but obviously, when I was offered the situation, I said, ‘let me get in on this.’ My best friend was like, ‘I want to watch,’ and so she binge-watches as well.
Q: You were in Assassin’s Creed and worked invoice capture, what did you find challenging about that?
Chantel Riley: Yeah, doing Assassin’s Creed was my first time doing motion capture and voice-over stuff so I had to get used to doing like, seven different takes of a line trying to emote in different ways and then watching it back and seeing which one they chose.
Q: Yeah, talking to a voice capture actor and he had that same response.
Chantel Riley: Yeah, it’s like, ‘Do I move like that? Why do I look so weird?’ Maybe I should straighten my posture a little bit more. It’s really cool though. I would love to do some more of that stuff for sure.
Q: In real life, what do you do for fun?
Chantel Riley: ’m a gym rat. I love working out. I call it my superhero training because that’s like the goal, to one day play a Marvel superhero. Omigod, I would love to. I’ve watched X-Man and read the comics so I’ve always fascinated by that, especially with Marvel, that whole universe. Even on my phone lock screen is the Marvel logo. So I am visualizing it. It’s going to happen one day.
Q: For people who want to do what you do, any advice?
Chantel Riley: Dream, pray, believe and receive.
SOURCE: blackgirlnerds.com