Francheska Bardacke
- Additional Crew
- Actress
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Francheska Bardacke was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The daughter of two lawyers and former Attorney General of the State, she started acting early-on in school productions in middle and high school. Recruited by a John Robert Powers modeling scout in a shopping mall, she had a brief stint modeling and then focused on tennis, playing the piano, theater, and riding horses. In college, Francheska majored in Political Science, participating in both theater and tennis at The Colorado College, and then Worcester College, Oxford University in England.
At Oxford, she studied International Relations and Shakespeare, winning a starring role as Mara in Michael Frayn's "Clouds." She continued theater back in Colorado and New Mexico: performing in Neil LaBute's "Bash", Thorton Wilder's "The Skin of Their Teeth", MacBeth", and "Tuesdays with Morrie". After college, she worked in the Wrangler department of "Commanche Moon" and found a place working with horses and the animals. She also did extra work on local productions, and was assistant tennis coach for her former high school. She did a local paintball commercial spin off of Mr. and Mrs. Smith that won an Addy Award.
Applying to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and law school, she played the Mom in a ketchup commercial after an exam. She made the National Mock Trial team and won a national scholarship to attend a Trial Lawyers' College in Dubois, Wyoming. After graduating, she went to California, improvised on set as a zombie and said "shitballs," gaining her eligibility to join SAG-AFTRA. She did not join, however, until 2019 after taking the New Mexico bar exam, working on Terrence Malick's "Voyage of Time", and practicing law at the District Attorney's Office in Albuquerque for five years. After one year of practicing law, on the set of "A Million Ways to Die in the West", she reconnected with many of her wranglers and worked on the movie "Hostiles" while taking a medical break at the DA's office due to a knee injury from skiing. She worked on set wearing a knee brace and cleaned up after the horses with a pitchfork. In 2019, she joined SAG-AFTRA and worked on "News of the World" prior to going into private practice, personal injury then Civil Rights, where she stayed through the pandemic, the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and where she continues to help victims of the prison industrial complex who are deprived constitutionally adequate medical care and services in New Mexico prisons.
At Oxford, she studied International Relations and Shakespeare, winning a starring role as Mara in Michael Frayn's "Clouds." She continued theater back in Colorado and New Mexico: performing in Neil LaBute's "Bash", Thorton Wilder's "The Skin of Their Teeth", MacBeth", and "Tuesdays with Morrie". After college, she worked in the Wrangler department of "Commanche Moon" and found a place working with horses and the animals. She also did extra work on local productions, and was assistant tennis coach for her former high school. She did a local paintball commercial spin off of Mr. and Mrs. Smith that won an Addy Award.
Applying to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and law school, she played the Mom in a ketchup commercial after an exam. She made the National Mock Trial team and won a national scholarship to attend a Trial Lawyers' College in Dubois, Wyoming. After graduating, she went to California, improvised on set as a zombie and said "shitballs," gaining her eligibility to join SAG-AFTRA. She did not join, however, until 2019 after taking the New Mexico bar exam, working on Terrence Malick's "Voyage of Time", and practicing law at the District Attorney's Office in Albuquerque for five years. After one year of practicing law, on the set of "A Million Ways to Die in the West", she reconnected with many of her wranglers and worked on the movie "Hostiles" while taking a medical break at the DA's office due to a knee injury from skiing. She worked on set wearing a knee brace and cleaned up after the horses with a pitchfork. In 2019, she joined SAG-AFTRA and worked on "News of the World" prior to going into private practice, personal injury then Civil Rights, where she stayed through the pandemic, the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and where she continues to help victims of the prison industrial complex who are deprived constitutionally adequate medical care and services in New Mexico prisons.
