![]() I find the honesty and authenticity of the character. It’s not different actually! I approach every role exactly the same. How is playing a superhero different from any acting other roles? And I love that we are still talking about it today and that my role is inspiring new generations of kids! Power Rangers never stops! I’m really grateful to forever be a part of the franchise. I learned so much from that show and made life-long friends. Your first major screen role was the yellow power ranger in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy! How was it like taking on such an iconic character? It’s a rollercoaster and you have to be willing to hang on and stay steady and focused and positive through the lows, and then enjoy the highs. And they still do.īased on your experience, what advice would you give to aspiring actors about moving to Hollywood and navigating the entertainment industry?ĭo it because you love acting and you love performing and digging into characters, and love being on sets and on stages, and even just auditioning from your own home! Because it’s hard work and there’s a ton of rejection -you can’t be in it to be rich and famous. My mother is still the hardest working woman I know. My grandma came from Italy, was very poor, my dad is the youngest of nine kids and they all worked their butts off to have what they have. ![]() All my aunts, uncles, and cousins… we come from a very hard-working family. Lower-middle class family, my parents often worked two jobs. My parents were and are very hard workers. And my work ethic I owe to the wonderful people who raised me. But I think my love for acting started long before …in my mother’s attic full of dance costumes. I loved speaking to kids and going to events and showing up and being a role model. And it showed me that I can accomplish my dreams if I work hard. Being Miss Nevada Teen gave me a platform, so to speak. ![]() There is an incredible amount of work ethic that goes into this business… but I would say it was my parents who inspired my work ethic. I had already fallen in love with being on a stage, backstage, rehearsals, production, all of the glamour and all of the hard work, and also all of the not-so-glamorous aspects of performing. I was Pepper in Annie at 13 at a big summer outdoor theatre. I was Leisel in The Sound of Music at 16. I had been in plays and musicals in High School, and in my city and community. In 2nd grade, I memorized everyone’s lines in the Christmas play. It wasn’t pageantry that made me decide to be an actress. How has pageantry impacted your work ethic as an actress? What made you decide to move towards acting? It was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot about TV production, but I knew that I was done with that pageant world after that. And to everyone’s surprise… I won! So, that brought me to the national competition of Miss Teen USA where I lived with 50 other teens for a month. Honestly, I really only did one! I had watched my older cousins compete in Miss Nevada and Miss Nevada Teen pageant and I had always wanted to enter -primarily because it was held in a gorgeous Las Vegas ballroom on a beautiful stage! At 16 I begged… but my parents said “no.” They went out of town, and I raised all the money to enter myself and bought myself a dress - I totally manipulated them into letting me enter and getting their support. What was your favorite thing about pageantry? At 12, I joined a youth theatre ensemble called The Rainbow Company, and it was there that I fell in love with acting.Īlongside performing in theater productions, you were also competing in beauty pageants. So, I grew up playing makeup believe in our studio with my siblings and cousins and an attic full of dance costumes. She was a dance teacher -she taught ballet, tap, and jazz in a studio in the back of our house to hundreds of girls and women in the Las Vegas valley. But it was my mother who influenced my love of performing. A lot of good old-fashioned family fun riding 4-wheelers throughout the desert, going to the lake. Yes, being born and raised in Las Vegas was really a gift! It was a small town back then. How did you feel growing up in such a vibrant environment and how did that influence your love for performing? I live in Los Angeles and love it! I’ve been in LA since 1997!
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