About
Priya Brantley was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
At the age of four, Priya and family moved to Nashville, Tennessee where she attended St. Edward Catholic School and Nashville School of the Arts. While at St. Edward she signed to Model Talent Management and was featured in Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief as well as scoring a cover on Brio Magazine, a national teen Christian magazine. She then attended Middle Tennessee State University, majoring in International Business. However after her freshman year, her family moved to Gainesville, Florida where she transferred to University of Florida.
The summer before her senior year she interned with Native Auction Company, a Florida based auction house concentrating in Native American art pieces, South American paintings, and first edition American literature. She decided to take her senior year online and embark on a career in modeling in Melbourne, Australia. While in Melbourne she did promotional work for Olympus cameras, Meshki, and signed to Howell Management.
Upon her arrival back to the Gainesville to graduate, she soon got her first “big girl job” as she calls it.She started her position as Marketing Director for Electro Freeze Southeast in 2018, the number one distributor of ice cream and frozen dessert machinery in the United States and ranking as one of the top three in the world. She was the company’s first international PR correspondent at SIGEP 2019, SIGEP being the world’s biggest gelato convention, held annually in Rimini, Italy. While at her position with Electro Freeze she was able to cement a lucrative partnership with PreGel, the leading global gelato distributor, that still stands to this day.
Post Covid, she has focused her efforts on glaucoma and dry eye research and continuing her career in modeling and acting. Signing with Alexa Models and Talent in 2022, an award winning SAG AFTRA agency in Tampa, Florida.
Melbourne, Australia
Tampa, Florida