Chianna is a biracial Lakota Sioux woman born and raised in South Dakota. Growing up, Chianna was drawn to auditions and the idea of acting on her favorite TV shows and movies. She began writing scripts and casting her friends in family in movies that she shot on a handycam and edited in iMovie. Going into high school, she auditioned for every show, got cast in many and eventually got to play one of her favorite characters in stage play history-- Abigail Williams from The Crucible by Arthur Miller.After graduating, Chianna attended the university for a year and got re-introduced to film and film acting and later had the opportunity to co-star in an indie feature film Remission. She went on to pursue her dreams of acting and filmmaking in Los Angeles. It wasn't long after she made the move that she started writing scripts again, going on to write, produced and star in a short film By Any Other Name. Since then, she's written multiple feature films and has been acting in incredibly diverse projects with many unique, on the rise storytellers.