Debrianna Mansini

Acting

Debrianna Mansini

Born
(age 67)
Birthplace
U.S.A.
Credits
23 titles

Biography

Debrianna Mansini (born Deborah Ann Mansini, 9 February 1959 in the USA) – American actress, writer, and activist of Italian descent, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Trained at Circle in the Square in New York before moving to Santa Fe, where she was a company member of Santa Fe Performing Arts Company for ten years. She is married to filmmaker David Forlano, with whom she has produced award-winning documentary shorts. Her most notable film roles include Ann in Crazy Heart (2009, opposite Jeff Bridges), Paula in The Burning Plain (2008, opposite Charlize Theron), a Flight Attendant in Bordertown (2007, opposite Jennifer Lopez), the Vernon Diner Waitress in Hell or High Water (2016), a Woman in Trailer in Rattlesnake (2019), and Professor Brody in Maggie Moore(s) (2023). On television she is best known for Fran (the diner waitress) in Breaking Bad (2012) and Better Call Saul (2015–2018, 4 episodes), Sandy McGreevy in Messiah (2020), Clarice in The Lying Game (2011), Pam Gray in Longmire (2012), and Dorothy in Manhattan (2014). She is also the creator and star of the one-woman stage show The Meatball Chronicles and co-wrote the web series CYPHERS.

Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 23

YearTitleRole
2025 She Rides Shotgun Film School Counselor (uncredited)
2023 Maggie Moore(s) Film Professor Brody
2020 Interrogation TV Captain Alexandra Friedman (2 ep)
2020 Messiah TV Sandy McGreevy (1 ep)
2019 Rattlesnake Film Woman in Trailer
2016 Hell or High Water Film Vernon Diner Waitress
2016 The Girlfriend Experience TV Court Clerk (1 ep)
2015 Better Call Saul TV Fran (4 ep)
2014 Manhattan TV Dorothy (1 ep)
2014 Persecuted Film Agent Rivera
2014 Boys of Abu Ghraib Film Carol Farmer
2014 Drunktown's Finest Film Phoebe Smiles
2012 Longmire TV Pam Gray (1 ep)
2011 Surreal Estate Film Ms. Pearl
2011 The Lying Game TV Clarice Boyle (1 ep)
2009 Crazy Heart Film Ann
2009 The War Boys Film Jen
2008 The Burning Plain Film Paula
2008 In Plain Sight TV Betty Thundercloud, Trish Cusato (1 ep)
2008 Breaking Bad TV Fran (1 ep)
2007 The Flock Film Harriet's Mother
2007 Bordertown Film Flight Attendant
2005 Wildfire TV Anna Rodriguez (1 ep)
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