Acting
Jun 14, 1971
Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada
Tanya Memme
Acting
Biography
Tanya Memme (Tanya Lynn Memme, born June 15, 1971, Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress, television host, and producer who graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City and was crowned Miss World Canada in 1993, going on to compete at the Miss World pageant in South Africa that year. She is best known for hosting the Emmy-nominated home renovation series Sell This House on A&E for nine seasons (2003–2011), as well as Move This House, Sell This House: Extreme, and Smart Home Nation on FYI (2021). Her father, Frank Memme, was a co-founder of Mountainview Homes, a custom home-building company in Ontario. She won a Crystal Reel Award for Best Actress in a Feature Film Under $1 Million for her starring role in Terror Inside (2008). She was married to producer Vahan Yepremyan from 2010 to 2015; they have a daughter, Ava. Her film credits include Jungle 2 Jungle (1997) (Tim Allen, Martin Short), Repetition (2005), Terror Inside (2008) (Corey Feldman, Joe Abby), and Visioneers (2008) (Zach Galifianakis, Judy Greer). On television she has appeared in F/X: The Series (1996), Melrose Place (1998), Robotica (2001), JAG (2002), CSI: Miami (2002), and The Practice (2002).
Feature Films (3)
In the smallest of Florida towns a lone well driller, Joe, works gathering geological samples for a university study. Unknowingly, Joe unearths more than just primordial muck from deep below the swamp. A strange oozing liquid, is absorbed into Joe's skin and slowly transposes his sense of pain and pleasure. Unaware that he is now a victim and carrier of a horrible virus, Joe lingers in town a few extra days to woo the town's pretty diner waitress, Maria. Allen, a weekly town visitor and long time suitor of Maria's, is unaware of Joe's romantic interest. When Allen's frequent visits to see Maria are delayed by work, Allen must make a final decision to quit his job and propose to Maria or break off their relationship. When Allen makes the decision to move to Ochopee and marry Maria he arrives to find the town a changed place. Maria, often hinting at marriage, is no longer interested and somehow a darker... Written by Jozef Lenders
Terror Inside
Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had—a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old Mimi-Siku discovers that the world outside his jungle home is indeed a strange place.
Jungle 2 Jungle
Visioneer George Washington Winsterhammerman lives a comfortable but monotonous life in this slightly futuristic black comedy. When people start exploding from stress and George is showing early symptoms, he's forced to examine his life. Taking a look at his nice job, his sexless marriage and his resistance to life coaching, George reconsiders the philosophy of happiness through mindless activity.
Visioneers
Television & Series (12)
The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
CSI: Miami
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”
The Practice
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.
Melrose Place
Robotica is a robot combat show produced for the American television cable channel TLC, a subsidiary of the Discovery Channel. Three seasons of Robotica were produced. The shows first aired in April 2001, with the final season beginning in late 2002. Show hosts for the first season were Ahmet Zappa, Tanika Ray, and Tanya Memme. For the second and third seasons, Dan Danknick replaced Tanika Ray.
Robotica
Host Debbie Matenopoulos & her expert guests present the best in cooking, crafting, decorating & more.
