Hometown Actress Coming to Pinckneyville Library
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Actress and hometown girl Cindy Maples returns to Pinckneyville to speak at the Public Library on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 1:00 p.m.
Maples has been an actress for as long as she can remember. Her love for acting started with speech competition's in the sixth grade, where she performed "Who's on First" by Abbott & Costello, as well as Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart." She studied Mass Communications and Theatre at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Some of her credits include roles in movies such as 'Widow,' in which she played the lead role of Vivian Potts who is haunted by disturbing dreams of her recently deceased husband. In 'Hell Is Full,' Maples plays Olivia, the sexy wife of a doctor who finds love in the wrong place at the wrong time. And most recently, she played Emily in just-released 'The Creepy Doll.'
Maples can also be seen in the beautiful, short 'Elysian' which was just released and is available to be viewed on YouTube. She is currently in production on 'Wireface' with an expected release of 2011 for the prequel and the movie release in 2012.
Also coming in 2012 is 'The Birthday Massacre' in which Maples plays the role of Mary Clark, a sympathetic mother who takes in her very disturbed nephew.
Maples feels just as comfortable on the stage as she does in front of the camera. She has performed at the Evansville Civic Theatre, Evansville Museum Dinner Theatre and The Stage Company in Carbondale, Ill. Some of her roles on stage include Molly in the 'Smell of the Kill,' Kitty in 'An Opening for Murder,' Roz in 'Moon over Buffalo' and one of her favorites- Nurse Kelly in 'Harvey.'
Maples will host a viewing of her latest project, a short called 'Wireface: In the Beginning' at the library. Attendees will be among some of the first to see this short before it premieres in February at The Derby City Film Festival in Louisville, Ky.