# Vanessa Theme Ament

> Vanessa Theme Ament is an American Foley artist, author, academic, musician, and playwright. She is best known for The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation, first published in 2009 and now in its third edition (2021), one of the first scholarly monographs devoted to the craft of Foley sound in film and television. As a Hollywood Foley artist she worked on major productions spanning more than two decades, including Platoon (1986), Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), and Beauty and the Beast (1991), and received three Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Certificates for Foley. She served as the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair in Telecommunications at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

*American Foley artist, academic, & musician (1955-)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/vanessa-theme-ament

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1955
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Vanessa Theme Ament is an American Foley artist, author, academic, musician, and playwright. She is best known for The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation, first published in 2009 and now in its third edition (2021), one of the first scholarly monographs devoted to the craft of Foley sound in film and television. As a Hollywood Foley artist she worked on major productions spanning more than two decades, including Platoon (1986), Predator (1987), Die Hard (1988), and Beauty and the Beast (1991), and received three Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Certificates for Foley. She served as the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair in Telecommunications at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 36.6
- **Momentum:** 13.3

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/Foley_Grail (@Foley_Grail)
- **LINKEDIN**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-theme-ament-2088874/ (@vanessa-theme-ament-2088874)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0024612/ (@nm0024612)
- **WEBSITE**: http://vanessaamentgjenvick.com/

## Sources
- [Vanessa Ament](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Ament)
- [Vanessa Ament](https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Ament)
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/15084287)
- [The Movie DB](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91312)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7914600)

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