
Acting
Born June 10, 1970 · Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Adria began her career as an actress. The grand daughter of Sam Tennor, a song plugger for Irving Berlin, Tennor made her film debut playing a twelve-year old boy in Hal Hartey’s Amateur which premiered in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes. She works regularly in television and film, and is most known for her recurring role on AMC’s Mad Men as Betty Draper’s frank-talking friend Joyce Darling, as well as John Goodman’s dutiful if not impish secretary in Michel Hazanavicius’s Academy Award winning film, The Artist. She made her writing debut with StripSearch, her one-woman show based on her studies in pole dancing with Sheila Kelley at her SFactor Studio which played to rave reviews in Los Angeles for over a year and a half. In 2013, Tennor made her foray into producing assisting Doug Blake (The Sessions) on Smothered, a film by John Schneider, where she met Cracked Co-Producer & First AD, David Dwiggins who helped guide her through her directorial debut. Her feature project, Never Been Born, has been selected as one of ten finalists in the Nantucket Film Festival's Tony Cox Screenplay Contest and is in Pre-Production, starring Dale Dickey, Thomas Sadoski and Annika Marks.

Homewrecker
2025

Resurrected
2023

A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023

One Moment
2021

Psychos & Socios
2020

Pie
2018

Newly Single
2017

Bad Moms
2016

Friday Night
2016

Smothered
2016

The D Train
2015

Incident on Marmont Avenue
2012

The Artist
2011

You
2009

You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008
Judy's Got a Gun
2007

Headhunter
2005

I'm Losing You
1998

The First Wives Club
1996

Boys Don't Cry
1995

Amateur
1994