Mid-lennial Life Crisis
Featured ScenePOV: You’re a Millennial Trying to Impress Gen Z
Best Actress, New York Film Awards · Best Actress in a Comedy, Actors Awards
Selected scenes
Bilingual Actress
ComedyGrieving Daughter
DramaRecently
- 2026 Best Actress, New York Film Awards; Best Actress in a Comedy and Special Jury Award, Actors Awards, for Mid-lennial Life Crisis.
- 2026 Mid-lennial Life Crisis world premiere, LA Shorts International Film Festival.
- Documentary Co-directing with John Eliot Jordan a feature documentary starring Shinjiro Atae, with Kevin Woo. Executive produced by Fisher Stevens and Peter Farrelly.
- Jan 5, 2027 Journey to Forever (HarperCollins) book release.
About
Carlie Mantilla-Jordan is a bilingual Mexican-American actress whose work moves between character-driven comedy and grounded drama. On screen, she appeared in Apple’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever and co-wrote and appeared in Angel Falls Christmas, which reached Netflix’s Top 10 in more than 40 countries. Her performance in the short Mid-Lennial Life Crisis, which she also wrote and co-directed, has earned multiple Best Actress honors on the festival circuit, and she created and starred in the series Your Mom Says Hi! featuring Lily Tomlin and Richard Lewis.
A longtime stand-up comedian, she spent over a decade at the Comedy Store and Hollywood Improv, and was named Best Comedian in Los Angeles by Los Angeles Magazine.
As a writer and filmmaker, her work spans Netflix, Amazon and Hallmark, and she is currently co-directing SHINJIRO, a feature documentary executive produced by Oscar winners Fisher Stevens and Peter Farrelly.
Representation & casting