GUEST BIO
Bella Zoe Martinez
Actress/Writer
Once More, Like Rain Man
Bella is an actress known for Glory & Injustice, The Vanished (2020), and The Infiltrators (2019). Bella began discovered acting as a form of therapy to cope with severe bullying in middle school related to her autism. From there Bella trained with Gary Spatz and others at the Playground LA Young Actor's Conservatory.
She was inspired to expand to writing when she noticed how characters with autism are often portrayed in film and television. Of this, she says: "All autistic characters were the same
stereotype with no real depth to them as a person. There was never an understanding of how we think or see the world, or went beneath the surface in a character sense. I want to change
that.”
A jack-of-all-trades, Bella is also a recording artist - she wrote and performed the original song Distant Goodbyes in the film. She also designs merch with her brother and sister under the Artsy Toon Co. banner