Denece Ryland hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota the youngest of 4 children. She spent most of her childhood singing, dancing, and creating characters, and even putting on a dog act in her elementary school! She moved to Los Angeles at 19 and began her decades long professional career which includes working with incredible directors such as Martin Scorsese in The Departed, Diane English in The Women and John Wells in The Company Men. Denece played Representative Silk for two seasons on the Showtime series Brotherhood. In between film and television jobs Denece has performed in hundreds of TV and Radio commercials as an actress and voice over artist.