Debrianna Mansini

Known for

Acting

Born

February 9, 1959

Birthplace

U.S.A.

Debrianna Mansini (born Deborah Ann Mansini, 9 February 1959 in the USA) – American actress, writer, and activist of Italian descent, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Trained at Circle in the Square in New York before moving to Santa Fe, where she was a company member of Santa Fe Performing Arts Company for ten years. She is married to filmmaker David Forlano, with whom she has produced award-winning documentary shorts. Her most notable film roles include Ann in Crazy Heart (2009, opposite Jeff Bridges), Paula in The Burning Plain (2008, opposite Charlize Theron), a Flight Attendant in Bordertown (2007, opposite Jennifer Lopez), the Vernon Diner Waitress in Hell or High Water (2016), a Woman in Trailer in Rattlesnake (2019), and Professor Brody in Maggie Moore(s) (2023). On television she is best known for Fran (the diner waitress) in Breaking Bad (2012) and Better Call Saul (2015–2018, 4 episodes), Sandy McGreevy in Messiah (2020), Clarice in The Lying Game (2011), Pam Gray in Longmire (2012), and Dorothy in Manhattan (2014). She is also the creator and star of the one-woman stage show The Meatball Chronicles and co-wrote the web series CYPHERS.