Angelique Monet
Angelique Monét is an American multi-media talent and former Ms. Black South Carolina USA. Monét is the owner and CEO of Greta Joanne Entertainment [film and television production company] as well as the owner and CEO of AM Releasings (a theatrical distribution company). Both companies are based in New York City. Monét graduated from St. Augustine's College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mass Communications and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Angelique Monét is also the world's only female stage-film actress ventriloquist.
Monét began her career as a reporter/segment producer of NBC's children's show VideoMax and ABC's Beyond The Years. She was the writer, producer and host of Gracie and Angel, a children's program that aired nationally on the Dove Communications channel. Her first interview television show, NYConnection, was syndicated on Time-Warner's cable network. She interviewed entertainment pioneers such as Public Enemy, Dougie Fresh, Kurtis Blow, DJ Red Alert, Flavor Flav, Chuck D, Ludacris, Raekwon, Charles Stone III, Tyson Beckford, Sheek Louch, Damon Dash, Wayne Wonder and Baby Cham. Her acting credits include Multiple Me a one-woman Off Broadway production on Theatre Row. Monét was later cast in the supporting roll of Von in York Entertainment's East New York.
Monét's directorial film debut came with the short film BitterSweet which screened at the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner (SFC) in 2005. Her feature film Deceptive premiered at the Marche du Film during Festival de Cannes (2010). Monét is the executive producer, producer, writer and star of the film which also stars Shiek Mahmud-Bey (Buffalo Soldiers with Joaquin Phoenix, Sidney Lumet's Nightfalls on Manhattan and Leprechaun:Back 2 tha Hood), Jas Anderson (Brooklyn's Finest) and Meah Pace (TLC's R U the girl). Deceptive had its New York City theatrical release from October 29 to November 4, 2010 through Big Cinema's Manhattan location. The film is scheduled to release in L.A., Atlanta, Washington DC, Chicago, Paris, France, Accra /Ghana and the United Kingdom. Monét is also the lead actress, executive producer, writer and co-director of Engaging a feature film starring Chiko Mendez, Latin sensation Tito Puente Jr. son of world renown Tito Puente, Ángel Salazar, Steven Bauer, Shiek Mahmud-Bey and Guy Richards.
Angelique Monét is a recording artist, songwriter, composer, music producer and also a member of ASCAP. Her album Not Wasting Time is available on iTunes for download.
Monét is a mixture of African-American, Native American, with roots in France, Ireland, Spain and was raised in Greenville, South Carolina by her mother and grandparents. Her grandfather, the Honorable Theo Walker Mitchell, is a former Senator and the first African American gubernatorial candidate to receive nomination from a major party (Democratic Party).
Greta Joanne Entertainment [in conjunction with AM Releasings] is the first American film company to premiere any film in a West African country.
Monét is the CEO and founder of the Hamptons Black International Film Festival which is the first African Diaspora international film festival in the Hamptons [a string of towns in Long Island, NY].
She became Princess Angelique Monét in 2011, when the Duke of Aquitaine appointed her “fons honorum,” because of Monét’s achievements and world peace platform. On a periodical basis royals grant nobility titles to those whom they see fit. Though this is a non-reigning title, royals are still allowed to use titles, and grant them “fons honorum.” As Princess, Monét is also a Duchess within her own right, therefore titled and deeded, Her Royal Highness Princess Angelique Monét, Duchess of Aquitaine.
In July 2011 Monét became a Video on Demand/PPV distributor for independent content with the launch of her own television channel, Nothing On Television TV, a VOD/PPV channel available on DISH Network satellite television and over the internet through DishOnline.com. This move into television distribution has set her into a small select group of female television channel owners in the United States. The channel has also launched Monét's reality show Angelique Monét, Renaissance Woman which follows the multitude of different businesses she has started and is currently running, in addition to her acting and performance career.
