An attractive blonde actress with an honest, unadorned appeal, Arija Bareikis projects a quietly powerful presence that has led to a burgeoning career on both stage and screen. She racked up theater credits in regional productions before landing a major Broadway role in 1997 as Sunny Freitag, an Aryan-featured Wesleyan student and Southern Jewish socialite who longs to be a WASP, in Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning "The Last Night of Ballyhoo". Bareikis made her film debut in the 1994 short "Celestial Navigation" and followed with the festival-screened independents "Ties to Rachel" (1996) and
Appeared at repertory theaters throughout the USA in plays like "Romeo and Juliet" (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), "The Sweet By'n'By" (Barter Theatre) and "The Visit" (Williamstown Theatre Festival)
Appeared on the daytime dramas "All My Children" (ABC) and "Another World"
1994
Film acting debut in the short "Celestial Navigation"
