Marika Mashburn (she/hers) is an 
Actor, Casting Director and Producer, based in Chicago.

She was raised in a trailer home in the middle of a cornfield in Oklahoma and trained at Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
 

Marika is a world traveler, having visited all 50 of these United States, all 7 continents and 32 countries (so far), including a year-long stint driving ice road trucks and fronting the continent’s most famous alt-country band, 
Roll Cage Mary, at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. 

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Marika lives in a 100 year old historic Chicago bungalow in West Rogers Park with her husband, actor-producer 
Dennis William Grimes.

She is a daughter of an immigrant and is represented by Big Mouth Talent Inc.

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