Denise Bella Vlasis

SAG/ AFTRA/  IMDB

 

• Winner and recipient of  Celebrity Look-alike Award : 1997 Reel Award/ Best Actress 

 

• Winner and recipient of Celebrity Look-alike Award : 2007 Appreciation of Service to the Tribute Industry from Entertainment Network/Bea Fogleman

 

• Winner and recipient of the Celebrity Look-alike Award: IGCITA CLONEY AWARD Best supporting Enhancement of Celebrity Impersonation- Author

 

• Winner and recipient of the Celebrity Look-alike Award: 2000 REEL AWARDS Literary Award

• Performed exclusive Madonna performance (with rave reviews from both) for Christina Aguilera and Seal.

• Most recent corporate appearances include being booked at Events with Brian Setzer and Pat Benetar and actor comedians Jay Leno, David Spade and Dana Carvey. Hired to appear as Madonna for Designer Ralph Lauren (2001) Mr. DELL (Dell computers), Mademoiselle Magazine (1999), Mayor Willie Brown (1990) and Las Vegas show Producer (Splash) Jeff Kutash and performing with Choreographer "Shabba-Do"(1987-92).

 

• In 1986, out of 2000 videos entered for Madonna's "Make My Video" contest on MTV, Denise's video was hand picked by Madonna as a top ten finalist. Denise was honored with first runner up and the only Madonna look-alike to be selected.

 

• In 1990, after meeting Film Director John Boskovitch, Denise was instantly hired to play the part of "Shoshanna" (Starring Sandra Bernhard) in the Feature Film Without You I'm Nothing. She worked with choreographer Carole Armitage to create the perfect Madonna impression for the role.

 

• She has worked for and with Madonna as Madonna.

 

• Denise Bella Prides her Charity work with Children most -View Charities here

 

FILM-USA

Beverly Hills Zombie Squad (1986) Featured/"Madonna"

Fast Sofa (2001 Direct. Salomé Breziner) Featured/"Fake Madonna"

Flags of Our Fathers (2005 Direct. Clint Eastwood) Featured/"Luncheon Singer

Murder Live (1989) Featured/"Mystery Girl"

Neon Empire(1990) Featured/"Madonna Impersonator"

976- EVIL(1987) Cameo/"Movie Star"

Without You I'm Nothing (1990 Direct John Boskovich) Featured/"Shoshanna"

 

T.V COMMERCIALS-USA

Celebrity Phone Lines- Madonna

Suzuki- Rock Star

Stouffer’s Foods- Rapping Madonna (live vocals)

Montgomery Ward- Girl band, drummer

The Fox Network New Season Promo- Drummer

MTV (starring Madonna)- Madonna

 

TELEVISION-USA

A Current Affair- Biography

AM Los Angeles- Model Boy Toy clothing line

Americas Funniest Videos- Featured sketch opening

American Journal- Performance

AMC/American Movie Classic- Hollywood Feuds & Rivals- Interview

Bay Watch Nights -Impersonator

Casino-(Artie Johnson) Made for video-Madonna

Chelsea Handler Show- Show opening/Dinner for 5

Days of Our Lives-Madonna

Dream On-Performance

Entertainment Tonight- 2 shows/Interview/Performance

Extra- Comedy skit/Madonna tour

Family Feud –10 shows- Celebrity look-alike show

Fox & Friends- Book Promo

Good Morning America - MTV-True Blue Video Finalist

Hard Copy- 4 shows/Comedy re-enactments

Jenny Jones -2 shows- Performance

Live with Regis and Kathie Lee- Model Dick Tracy clothing line 

Mike and Matty- Interview

Maury Povich- Interview

Not Necessarily the News- Madonna stand-in

Philly After Midnight- Book promo

The Gossip Show/Julie Brown- Madonna’s baby sitter

The Carol Burnett Show- Performance

The Carol & Marilyn Show- Interview

The Ronald Reagen Jr. Show- Interview/ Performance

To Tell the Truth- Made You Look book promotion

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno- 5 shows Comedy re-enactment

USA High (Episode/Baby Boom)- Madonna

Up All Night with Rhonda -Madonna

Vicky Lawrence -2 shows- Modeling, Performance/Interview

Who Knows the Band - MTV Story Teller double for Madonna

Special Appearances on: 

E!, MTV, Vh1, HBO, MuchMusic, BTV

European documentaries: Numerous- List upon request

 

INTERNATIONAL FILM

BBC Television- UK (numerous)

Control: Latin America

El Sabado Hugante- South America

I Television- Iran TV

ITV- UK

Happy Anniversary Greece- TV commercial -Greece

La Vida Dolce- Documentary-Italy

Nippon Television- Variety Show-Japan (numerous performances)

Princess Princess -Music Video-Japan

 

TOURS

Chile, Guam Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Marseilles, New Mexico, Philippines, Singapore & USA

 

STAND-IN

Live: Estee Lauder’s Evita make up line - Costumed in Madonna's wardrobe

Television: Not Necessarily the News - Body double

UK Television: Ronald Reagen Jr. Show - Model Madonna's famous tasseled bustier

Madonna 2001: Drowned World Tour- Make-up and costume stand-in

 

MUSIC AND CORPORATE VIDEOS

Roy Orbison- In Dreams/Back up vocalist

Stray Cats -Men without Shame/Swing dancer

Rick James- Glow/Beautiful girl

The Boys- Crazy/Madonna

Julie Brown -Girl Fight Tonight/Madonna

The Chipmunks/(Disney)- Macerena/Madonna

A great idea for Corporate Video Casting:

Denise has been cast and featured as an actress portraying "Madonna" in Corporate Videos for: Pepsi-Cola, Amgen, Pacific Bell, Motorola, Subway Inc., Ray Ban, Hawaiian Punch, Miller 2000, and many more.

 

SOUND-ALIKE VOICE

Television: Hard Copy- Madonna voice over re-enactment

Radio: Power 106 Radio- Madonna voice-over (numerous)

Radio: Pirate Radio- Movie Promo 

Denise has been featured on numerous live radio shows throughout USA as author of MADE YOU LOOK and YOU'VE GOT THE LOOK

 

PRINT, ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

Allure

DS - Paris 

Jam - India

Musician

Marie Claire

Premier

Hollywood Greek Reporter

Marie Claire

Glam/Greece

People/Greece

LA Reader

Star

Star-Tiger Beat

Scoop - Italy

The Globe

The Examiner

Ole - Paris

Pop's - Italy

Woman’s World

Woman's Own

Visto - Italy

Daily Variety

Phillip Morris - magazine-Madonna

Tiffany Toys - exercise catalogue -Madonna

Latin Percussion Music - catalogue-model

Germany- feature article as Madonna with German actor Udo Kier

 

PREMIERS/FILM & VIDEO RELEASES

Truth or Dare Live performance and radio interview (Texas)

Who’s that Girl? Live appearance for film release on video (LA)

Who’s that Girl? Live performance Film screening (LA)

Evita (on video) -Live appearance for film release

Moulin Rouge (Hollywood, CA)- Live Billboard Can-can dancer

Pulp Fiction- Buena Vista- as Uma Thurman

 

BOOKS THAT FEATURE BELLA

A Day In The Life of Hollywood- Featured

Who's Not Who-Featured

2002 MTV Video Awards Program-Dewey Nicks photographer

Confidential (Cover of Book and several spreads)

Encyclopedia Madonnica- Featured

Made You Look- Author

You've Got The Look-Author

 

TV AND MEDIA CONTESTS

Television: Putting on the Hits - The only "Madonna" in the show's history to win 1st 

Television: The Three-Three-O Show - 1st place look-alike contest

Television: The New Gong Show -1st place Madonna dance performance

Magazine: Tiger Beat magazine’s "I Wanna Look Like Madonna"- 1st place

 

When making your decision for your future entertainment needs, or when casting a double or voice-over, make sure you book the best!

Since 1985 Denise's show has been the featured entertainment for hundreds of special events for Fortune 500 Companies. Entertaining (up to) fifteen Corporate Events a month,

Denise Bella's performance as Madonna continues to be the reason for "The year's best and most memorable event" and CEO executives, agents and casting directors continue to rely on Denise as their number one choice.

She understands the kind of professionalism it takes to make your event a hit.