Ramona Pringle is a Canadian actress, digital journalist,[1] television host and multiplatform media producer.[2]
Born in Toronto, she was named after the Ramones by her punk rock parents, Michaele Jordana and Douglas Pringle.[3] Ramona started her career doing a series of international commercials for Ricola, where she played Heidi which quickly developed a fan following online, and made Pringle instantly recognizable as "The Ricola Girl".[4] She was discovered for the campaign by the director Simon West.
As an actress Pringle has worked with heavy hitters including Russell Crowe, Ron Howard, Anjelica Huston, Andie MacDowell, Justin Timberlake, Paul Giamatti, and Clive Owen.[5] Credits like the Ricola Campaign and New Line Cinema's Shoot 'em Up and her role as "muse" in Michaele Jordana's CYBORG series [6] have earned Ramona a cult following among the geek and gamer set.[7]
Pringle also hosted The X, CBC Television's flagship program for teens where she interviewed bands, celebrities, athletes and writers in Toronto and Los Angeles.
Ramona Pringle has a Masters Degree in Interactive Media from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, in New York, where she developed multiplatform, interactive projects including the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) “Social Life NY”,[8] the multi-channel installation “Ballerina Remix” exhibited at the New York Hall of Science, and her thesis “Paranoia: Emotional Perception in the Interactive Cinematic Experience”.[9] She has a BFA Honors degree in Film and Video from York University in Toronto, Canada, and teaches film and acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
As an Interactive Media Producer, she splits her time between Toronto and New York, working with the PeakMedia Collective, and on the PBS FRONTLINE program “Digital Nation” [10] with Douglas Rushkoff, where she has developed “Your Stories” [11] a portal for user-generated content and participatory media about life in the digital age, a forefront multiplatform documentary project.[12]