Dawna Lee Heising

Dawna Lee Heising has acted in over 250 feature films and has won over 780 film festival awards. She is the VP of Aki Aleong's Mustard Seed Media Group and earned a B.S. Degree in Business Management and MBA from Pepperdine University. Her uncle is legendary DP Tak Fujimoto ("Silence of the Lambs," "Sixth Sense"), and her cousins David Wong and George Daugherty received a Primetime Emmy Award for their televised Broadway production of "Peter and the Wolf on Broadway".

Dawna has won over 460 Best Actress awards for feature films and television. She won the Living Legend Award at the 2024 Universe Multicultural Film Festival, received the Elite Martial Arts Spirit Award at the 2023 Golden Gate Hall of Honors Martial Arts Awards, and won "Actress & Action Star of the Year" at the 2021 USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame Awards. She was inducted into the WorldFilmGeek Hall of Fame for 2023, alongside Diane Franklin and Mark Patton. She won "Media Star of the Year" at the 2024 Golden Gate Martial Arts Hall of Honors Awards.

Dawna was honored to work with the great Eddie Griffin in Param Gill's "Bad President", which premiered at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, and with legendary star Tom Arnold in Adam Werth's "Alien Storm" from Mahal Empire Productions. She plays Lisa in "PTSD: A Soldier's Revenge," which stars Daniel Baldwin, Tom Sizemore, and Robert LaSardo, and Ms. Fairchild in Diana Carter's "Recipes for Love", starring Daniel Baldwin and Nicholas Turturro.

Dawna is trained in Tang Soo Do martial arts. She is a former Miss Los Angeles Chinatown, Ms. US World, Ms. World, Ms. Universe, Miss San Francisco Universe, Miss Orange County Universe, Miss Orange County America, Miss California Hemisphere and Mrs. California United States, among many other titles. She was honored to be the Queen of the 2019 Hollywood Silver Screen Film Festival, the 2018 WIND International Film Festival Queen and the 2021 Kaiju International Film Festival Queen. Dawna studies acting with Matthew Arkin and Karole Foreman, and her martial arts KwanJangNim is Grand Master Rick St. Clair. She is a long-time member of SAG-AFTRA.