An amazing husband, Delno Ebie put his entire acting career on hold to come home to help care for our special needs, premature son. Chase was born at 33 weeks on Father’s day in 2004. He was 2 feet and 15 inches long with Down syndrome (Ds). He was not expected to live, but he had his Daddy’s warrior spirit and now, after multiple surgeries and procedures including OHS, he’s mostly healthy and SO ornery! Delno Ebie is one of a kind-amazingly loyal, genuinely loving and caring, strong yet gentle, devastatingly handsome and truly talented. Chase adores his Daddy.
Delno puts family first, no matter what, also caring for his dying mother during Chase’s first 13 months of life. He was also told that he had a twin brother that supposedly died before birth that was identical in size and weight to our son.
He champions people with Ds as possible role models for his son. He stands up to doctors and others that need “education”. He’s always there for his son and nephew with Ds.
As a classically trained actor, he’s played numerous roles from Shakespeare and Moliere to Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Miller, and have appeared in many feature and independent films spanning from Disney to National Geographic. Films like “The Haunted Mansion”, “Deadly Obsession”, and “Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories” to television roles in “Situation Critical: Apollo 13”, “ER” and “The District”. In 2006, he helped produce and hosted a documentary of the 35th annual Wichita River Festival that aired on PBS.
He’s had the good fortune to train with teachers such as acclaimed actress, writer, and director Joan Darling, theatre legend Mary Jane Teall, and Christina Ferra-Gilmore and Sara Ballantine of The Actors Edge studio in Beverly Hills.
Most recently, he appeared in the feature film “Wichita” releasing in 2015, and completed the short film “Violet” for Native Boy Productions out of Oklahoma City. I also wrote and directed the short films “Family Matters” and “7 Days” that are currently being submitted to festivals. And I am currently involved with several television and feature film projects that are in development and/or pre-production as actor, writer and producer.
Delno’s accomplishments include winning BEST ACTOR for “Violet”at the Gallup Film Festival in New Mexico and being nominated BEST ACTOR for “Violet”at The American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco and The Red Nation Film Festival in Beverly Hills.
*Our son was 2 pounds: not 2 feet.