Marina Kerekes (née Horiates) is an American theatre, film, and television actress currently based in New England (but soon to be Chicago!). In addition to acting, Marina is a director, a yoga teacher, a bookworm, a proud Greek-American, and a physician. After graduating medical school from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, she decided to instead pursue the medicine of art, and she has returned to a career of storytelling in all forms.

Selected credits from some of her favorite stories include Claudia Draper in Tom Topor’s play Nuts (Actors Gym & Talent, dir. Reno Venturi), Catherine in David Auburn's Proof (Yale Drama Coalition, dir. Irene Casey), Emily in the film Goodnight, Gracie (GirlRyan Productions, dir. Fiamma Piacentini), Altagracia in Edwin Sanchez's Icarus (Yale Dramatic Association, dir. Brad Raimondo), and Sabrina Daldry in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (Yale Dramatic Association, dir. Stephen Kaliski). She stars as Anna Carole alongside Michael Emery and Jackson Deen in the newly released Gary Fierro film Mightyclaw, and she will appear as Madame Xena in the upcoming Brandon Golden & Samuele Bergamini feature New York Mouse (Project 10K Films).

Marina also recently starred as Oakie in the world premiere of Laura Thoma’s play Letter to My Soul (dir. Carin Estey), which was commissioned by the Guilford GreenStage Arts Festival. She continues to collaborate with Thoma on new theatrical work, including directing a 3-day iterative development workshop of Thoma’s new play Saving Ares with a full cast this spring.

In addition to her acting career, Marina continues to work as a medical content editor on physician-authored educational and clinical practice resources, and she’s enjoyed consulting on feature-length screenplays to ensure medical accuracy without sacrificing story.