About Chari

Chari Eckmann is a Minneapolis, MN based actor working nationally. Experienced in film, commercial, print, and theater, she has enjoyed a diverse and engaging career.

Chari grew up in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. She studied abroad at the University of Frankfurt and wound up hitchhiking throughout Europe until resettling in Minnesota to complete her degree at the U of M, which focused on history, anthropology, and sociology. She spent the next several years raising her family until she eventually took a job as a historical interpreter at the James J. Hill House in St. Paul. This gave rise to her acting career; she began taking roles in special programming at the Hill House and soon began a serious pursuit of the craft. She has since been trained professionally at the Guthrie Theater and now pursues acting and modeling full time.