Ramona Pringle is a Canadian digital journalist, television host, multiplatform media producer, actress and professor.Ramona heads a production company in Canada that specializes in multiplatform content and digital topics. She is the producer of Rdigitalife.com and of Avatar Secrets, an interactive documentary for TVO.Born in Toronto, she was named after the Ramones by her punk rock parents, Michaele Jordana and Douglas Pringle. 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". She was discovered for the campaign by the director Simon West.As an actress Pringle has worked with mainstream artists Russell Crowe, Ron Howard, Anjelica Huston, Andie MacDowell, Justin Timberlake, Paul Giamatti, and Clive Owen. Credits like the Ricola Campaign and New Line Cinema's Shoot 'em Up and her role as "muse" in Michaele Jordana's CYBORG series have earned Ramona a cult following online.Pringle is the host of Rdigitalife and has been a recurring host the web cast of Idea City. Previously she 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 BFA Honors degree in Film and Video from York University in Toronto, Canada, and 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”, 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”. As a multimedia artist, Ramona has produced and conceptualized several large scale immersive installations including Winter Sky at Sherway Gardens and The Media Tree at Casino Niagara, as well as her interactive documentary remix installation which was presented during Nuit Blanche 2012 in Toronto, and allowed users to become part of the live documentary and shape the narrative as it unfolded.She taught film and acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts before joining Ryerson University where she is a New Media faculty member in the RTA School of Media and the Master’s in Digital Media. She is a member of the Transmedia Center and an advisor to the Digital Media Zone.As an Interactive Media Producer, she splits her time between Toronto and New York, working with the Ramona Pringle Productions and the PeakMedia Collective. Previously she worked on the PBS Frontline program “Digital Nation” with Douglas Rushkoff, where she has developed “Your Stories” a portal for user-generated content and participatory media about life in the digital age, a forefront multiplatform documentary project. A multiplatform producer examining the virtual world, her project Avatar S
She was chosen for the campaign by the director Simon West.
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She has obtained a bit of a cult following because of her appearances as "Heidi" in a series of ads for Ricola.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Murdoch Mysteries
2011
TV Series
Florence Culliwick
Degrassi: The Next Generation
2008
TV Series
Roadside Girl
Shoot 'Em Up
2007
Baby's Mother
Firehouse Dog
2007
Picnic Trophy Presenter
Skinwalkers
2006
Nurse Sally
Monday Report
2006
TV Series
Cinderella Man
2005
Flapper Girl
Riding the Bus with My Sister
2005
TV Movie
Roslyn (Model in Red) (uncredited)
Mutant X
2004
TV Series
Tiffany
The X
2003
TV Series 2004-
Blue Murder
2003
TV Series
Wendy Van Heusen
On the Line
2001
Kayla Sanders
Doc
2001
TV Series
Shelly Manners
The Wonderful World of Disney
2000
TV Series
Mindy
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Frontline
2010
TV Series documentary producer - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
2014
TV Series
Herself - www.avatarsecrets.com - Ryerson University / Herself - Producer and Director / Herself - Director 'Avatar Secrets', Digital Producer, Professor, Ryerson University