
I was focusing so much on the voice and not the character. My acting was fine, but I didn't really get it.

When I saw that one of my favorite anime voice actors Crispin Freeman was teaching a class I thought, I have to do this. I wasn't very good at the beginning. But there might be a million 'nos' then you get a 'yes.' I started to find my stride in my senior year,when I first started exploring voiceover work. In this industry, you're getting rejected constantly. So at 18 years old, I moved to California. It has an amazing theater program and it's difficult to get into from out of state because it's a public college, but I got accepted. I thought there was no way I was getting into UCLA. Give yourself every opportunity to succeed.' So at the very last minute of college application deadlines, I decided to apply to theater schools instead.
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But my drama teacher, who I'm forever indebted to, said, 'If you want to do this, you should do it full stop. When it came time to apply to college, I was going to take my dad's advice and study business and do acting on the side. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play I decided right then and there to stop riding because I didn't want to ride a different horse. I remember brushing him and my mom came up to me crying and said, 'I'm sorry, sweetie, but you can't ride Dakota anymore.' I was devastated. But when I was 10 years old, Dakota fell while my trainer was riding him, and it turned out Dakota had a really horrible issue with his leg. It was heartbreaking it was such a difficult time. I would go to barn as an escape.įor five years I rode horses competitively - my horse, Dakota, and I were number-one in our circuit division. She reached nine-months and then she started regressing. My sister is mentally and physically disabled, she has a neuro-developmental disorder called Rhett Syndrome, which doesn't present itself until about the one-year mark, at which point there's loss of physical and mental capabilities.

I felt weird about that as a kid, but it proved helpful for my career.) I have two younger siblings: My brother is six years younger than me and my sister is four years younger.

(I never picked up a Southern accent because my parents didn't have one. "I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and my family moved to Greenville, North Carolina, when I was two, for my dad's job.
