
Ria Pavia
Actor · b. 1967 · Ohio, USA
Ria Pavia is an award-winning director whose debut, Second Team, recently won over a dozen awards on the festival circuit from 2020- 2021. Pavia also works as a dialogue/acting coach, privately coaching dozens of actors to prepare them for set and self-tape auditions. Prior to her coaching work, Pavia worked as a stage director, helming more than 20 plays and musicals. In the theater world, she has collaborated with actors including Jennifer Aniston, Noah Wyle and Mark Ruffalo. Her debut as a director represents a new step into film and television for Pavia, who has worked extensively in the industry. Previously, she worked as a "punch up" writer for feature films and staff writer on Ask Harriet, starring Ed Asner, as well as Pauly, starring Pauly Shore. Pavia's varied experiences as a casting associate included the classic movies Twister, Dead Presidents, and Flirting with Disaster. Though she excelled in her directing roles, Pavia began her career as a commercial actor; her "big break" came via a memorable gymnastics performance in a tampon commercial in the 80s. She went on to recur on hit TV shows ranging from sitcoms like Who's the Boss and The Hughley's to the soap Santa Barbara, before moving behind the camera. Pavia's creative education began in high school as a Theatre Major at Interlochen Arts Academy. She then studied under Sanford Meisner in the West Indies and finished up her education at UCLA, with a focus on theatre, TV and film. Her most rigorous role to date is the title of "Mother" to three spirited spawn: Daughter, Adrianna (20) and twin boys Dominic and Rocco (17). Pavia is based in Los Angeles.
Movies13
Movie6.7DramaHorrorThe Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Candyman
1992 · 1.9K votes
Movie6.5ComedyCrimeFollowing the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Freeway
1996 · 451 votes
Movie5.2ComedyRomanceA Los Angeles radio-station manager's girlfriend shows his teenage daughter how to be sexy.
She's Out of Control
1989 · 123 votes
Movie5.8FantasyComedyBobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place where Dreams are reality. When an accident occurs Coleman finds himself in Bobby's body and can only contact Bobby in his dreams.
Dream a Little Dream
1989 · 149 votes
Movie5.3TV MovieDramaWe follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, they split up and follow different paths. One becomes the surgeon of the everyday woman while the other's career freefalls and has to settle with strippers and actresses. The film covers their history and their inventions, from the sixties until today.
Breast Men
1997 · 69 votes
Movie9.0DramaRomanceThis riveting drama explores the explosive professional and private relationship between comedian Roseanne Barr and her volatile husband, Tom Arnold. Based on a true story.
Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes
1994 · 3 votes
Movie5.0HorrorThrillerA group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture shop for a graduation party. When one of them talks her boyfriend into a game of hide-and-seek, a psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.
Hide and Go Shriek
1988 · 57 votes
Movie5.7DramaA college freshman is date-raped and tries to press charges.
She Cried No
1996 · 28 votes
Movie5.9ComedyFamilyCarol and Neil are are successful in terms of grades, but not very popular at their highschool. When Carol comes to know that two foreign exchange students from France and Italy were redirected to another school, she figures she and Neil could take their places and be in the middle of public interest for one semester.
Student Exchange
1987 · 14 votes
Movie5.3DramaComedyAward winning comedy short that follows the intense world of competitive spitting.
The Great O'Grady
1993 · 4 votes
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Baby Steps depicts the encounter of a single gay school teacher with a midwestern adoption agent.
Baby Steps
1999 · 1 votes
Movie4.0ThrillerComedyOut at Pacific Coast University, five students living in the same apartment building go through personal trials.
Kill Shot
1995 · 6 votes
Movie3.3DramaA lesbian stripper lives with her lover, a novelist with writer's block who cheats on her with another woman.
Skeleton Woman
2000 · 3 votes
Series13
TV8.1ComedyA father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
How I Met Your Mother
2005 · 6K votes
TV7.7ComedyAl Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.
Married... with Children
1987 · 1.3K votes
TV7.8DramaER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
ER
1994 · 966 votes
TV6.9Action & AdventureDramaA much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993 · 516 votes
TV6.6ComedyDramaCaroline Duffy is a successful cartoonist in Manhattan whose eclectic friends are sometimes the subjects of her comic strip.
Caroline in the City
1995 · 35 votes
TV5.2DramaFamilySet to the soundtrack of the 1960s, a Philadelphia family moves toward the cultural upheaval in the years ahead. The Pryors' teen daughter Meg tries to shed her 'good girl' image by hanging with her worldly friend Roxanne and pursuing a dream of being an American Bandstand dancer. Meg's emerging personality, and the changes her mother's going through, don't sit well with Father.
American Dreams
2002 · 14 votes
TV6.8ComedyFamilyThe Hughleys is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 22, 1998 to April 28, 2000 and on the UPN network from September 11, 2000 to May 20, 2002. It starred comedian D. L. Hughley as the main character, Darryl Hughley, and Elise Neal as Yvonne, his hard-working wife, who move their family from the inner city to suburban Los Angeles.
The Hughleys
1998 · 14 votes
TV6.9ComedyThe John Larroquette Show is an American television sitcom .The show was a vehicle for John Larroquette following his run as Dan Fielding on Night Court. The series takes place in a seedy bus terminal in St. Louis, Missouri and originally focused on the somewhat broken people who worked the night shift, and in particular, the lead character's battle with alcoholism.
The John Larroquette Show
1993 · 18 votes
TV6.8ComedyHerman's Head is an American sitcom that aired on the Fox network from September 8, 1991 until April 21, 1994. The series was created by Andy Guerdat and Steve Kreinberg, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions in association with Touchstone Television. William Ragsdale stars as the titular character, Herman Brooks.
Herman's Head
1991 · 20 votes
TV7.2MysterySci-Fi & FantasyThe evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and death about the lives of people who live in Springwood.
Freddy's Nightmares
1988 · 215 votes
TV5.3ComedyWorking is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1997 to 1999. The series was created and executive produced by Michael Davidoff and Bill Rosenthal.
Working
1997 · 4 votes
TV6.5ComedyA single 30-something woman living in New York searches for romance with the help -- or hindrance -- of her three friends.
Can't Hurry Love
1995 · 2 votes
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With a lifelong friend, the newly appointed VP of regional distribution at a corrugated box company enters the world of adulthood and responsibility.
Grown Ups
1999 · 5 votes