Tru Collins

Trudy "Tru" Collins is an American actress and indie-pop singer. She is known for her role of Julie on MTV's original high school comedy, Awkward.[1]

Tru Collins
Collins sings with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Born
Trudy Collins

Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationActress, singer

Early life and education

Tru was born in Richmond, Virginia to five-time Emmy Award winning television journalist Reid Collins and choreographer Lindy Fisher.[2] She attended Manhattan's Professional Performing Arts School at 15[3] while studying classical piano and training with Elaine Kudo of American Ballet Theatre. Collins began college with a songwriting scholarship from Universal and studied at New York University and The New School in New York City.

Career

In 2014, she guest starred on Showtime's period drama Masters of Sex opposite Michael Sheen[4] and had a supporting role in Spring Awakening, an indie film set in the late 1800s.[5] Tru has recurred as mean girl Julie on MTV's Awkward seasons 2-5.

As a singer, she performed with Grammy-winning soul singer Latrice Varrett, opening for Aretha Franklin at the Nokia Theatre Times Square in 2009.[6] In 2010, she joined Atlantic Records' multi-platinum progressive rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra[7] as a vocalist,[8] touring arenas across North America and promoting the band performing acoustic guitar/vocal solos live on numerous rock radio stations.[9] That year, TSO reached #12 on the Billboard charts for American Arena Tours, beating Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. The tour grossed $47,395,108 and sold out 51 arenas.[10]

Collins has co-written songs with Rostrum Records artist Vali and Three 6 Mafia's Juicy J, and her work has been featured on various recordings and television soundtracks. In 2012, Collins performed with DJ Ravi Drums, Kitara player Craig Dobbin, and rapper Wes Period at the Air Canada Centre Arena in Toronto. In 2015, Collins joined Steven Seagal's blues band, Thunderbox, for a European tour[11] and performed with ten-time Grammy Award winner[12] George Benson at the Cognac Blues Passion Festival in Cognac, France.

Her debut solo EP, Story of A Gypsy Child, from producer Jonny on the Rocks of Brooklyn bands Shinobi Ninja and Rocky Business, is set for 2015 release. Her music video for the first single, "Party Dress", was released via YouTube in February 2015.

Tru Collins and Jodi Katz.
gollark: Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Wordart, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
gollark: I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Wordart, is in fact, GNU/Wordart, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Wordart. Wordart is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
gollark: It's actually GNU/Wordart, not Wordart.
gollark: The bot seems rather judgemental though, I must say.
gollark: 1.00000000003 miles

References
  1. "Awkward. (TV Series 2011–2016) - IMDb". Retrieved Mar 25, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
  2. "Tru Collins". IMDb. Retrieved Mar 25, 2020.
  3. Professional Performing Arts School
  4. "Masters of Sex (TV Series 2013–2016) - IMDb". Retrieved Mar 25, 2020 – via www.imdb.com.
  5. http://springawakeningmovie.com/?page_id=8
  6. http://www.laughfiendtv.com/cast.htm
  7. "Trans-Siberian Orchestra Explains This Year's Trip to 'The Christmas Attic'". Billboard. Oct 16, 2014. Retrieved Mar 25, 2020.
  8. "Trans-Siberian Orchestra". trans-siberian.com. Retrieved Mar 25, 2020.
  9. kzok.cbslocal.com/tag/tru-collins/feed/
  10. "Top 25 Tours of 2010". Billboard. Dec 8, 2010. Retrieved Mar 25, 2020.
  11. Virtue, Graeme (Jul 18, 2014). "Steven Seagal and his Blues Band review – playful rather than dazzling". Retrieved Mar 25, 2020 – via www.theguardian.com.
  12. Benson, George. "Official Website of George Benson". Retrieved Mar 25, 2020.

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