Stephanie Carwin started her performing life as a young dancer, making her transition to acting in her theater debut at age 12. Benefiting from a strong theater program at Santa Monica High, she went on to obtain her B.A. in Theater from UCLA. From there, she headed abroad to Paris, where she got some real life experience, a Master's Degree, and performed with several theater companies. After that, while she was living in Venice, Italy, she had the occasion to attend the Venice Film Festival – it reminded her that her first love was still the cinema, and thus she returned to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. Since then, she has appeared in many films, both big budget fare like Stigmata and indie award winners like I Am A Sex Addict (2005 IFP Gotham Award: Best Film Not Playing in A Theater Near You) and Recoil (2001 Best Feature Film at the Woodstock Film Festival). Most recently, she wrote, directed and starred in her own short film, Indiscreet, based on characters she created for the 2004 Street School Artist Collective’s production, Before It's Donne.