Jody Lee Olhava
- Actress
- Director
- Art Department
Jody Lee Olhava has enjoyed a thirty-year career in theater, television
and film. Her highlights include a recurring role on the soap opera
Santa Barbara (1984), numerous
pilots, and an outstanding supporting actress award from the Arizona
Arts Commission. For twenty years, she has shared her talents with the
SAG Conservatory working as a volunteer on-camera acting coach. This
profession is eclipsed with that of a substitute elementary school
teacher. At last,
Mamochka: A Russian Folktale (2004)
marks her directorial debut and won the Best Educational Award at the
2004 Berkeley International Film Festival. She and her husband,
Mario Polanco also produces the "Gone With
the Film Festival" each January with The
Mary Pickford Foundation.
