Welcome to Deanne Bray's Website!

Welcome to my website! You will appreciate what I have to offer on my website with news, links of other wonderful websites you can visit, and some photos in the gallery.

 This is WHO I am...
I am a Teacher, Mother, working actress, and Wife.

I love teaching because it leads me to learn new things every day. It's rewarding to be able to guide individuals to higher level of thinking by being creative in analyzing and evaluating a situation or concept. Often they end up teaching me with their way of looking at things!

Being a mom is a blessing. My daughter, Kyra, is now a toddler and so much fun to watch. Children's first teachers are their parents. However, many teach their parents to look at the simplest things with a new perspective. For instance, when Kyra was a baby, she was taught to sign milk the way everybody signs milk(squeezing a cow's teat) but whenever Kyra wanted milk, she'd pound with her right hand (with a hand shape of a 5) on her right side of her chest indicating that she wanted breast milk. She was 9 months old at the time. (I breast fed her until she was 20 months old.) I never taught her that gesture. I analyzed that she was signing the concept correctly in her own way. That's where her milk came from! She doesn't drink milk from a cow yet so she didn't bother signing that way even though I signed it many times. She insisted her way, pounding her chest. Eventually,she started signing milk like milking a cow when she started drinking cow's milk at 14 months.

A wife...  Often people say that marriage isn't easy. Being married for almost a decade, I would say I'd agree. It isn't a piece of cake but sharing your life with someone you love is worth every moment. If two people can look for ways to improve themselves with similar values in life, cherish their lives together and yet still be independent as individuals with understanding, love, patience and respect, that's the way to do it.   I keep in mind of a quote I once read, "There is no way to be a perfect wife but there are many ways to be a good one."  My husband, Troy, is such a gentleman and a wonderful father.  I often think about how much I enjoy sharing my life with him.

Acting... I have been born into the entertainment industry with Dad being a lighting director and business agent for the motion pictures. I grew up riding paramount studio's bicycle around the studio lots peeking in to watch actors and crew work. Dad took me on long road trips to locations and I'd watch dad work and actors stay pretty. I used to watch movies that have not been released yet. I was pretty much ahead of the game! I missed quite a bit of what was being said since I don't hear everything but I sure have SEEN a lot.

Acting has been an interest of mine growing up. I have had the wonderful opportunity to star in my own TV series, Sue Thomas: Fbeye. Guest starred in a few dozens TV shows, and have done films as well as stage plays in theatre. The more characters I meet,the more better I understand people in real life that have similar traits in the characters I play. Some feel that acting is therapeutic but I don't look at it that way. I jump in, explore the character and bring the character to life the best possible way as I can. It's not therapy to me but it's art and it's work.