"I had just moved to Los Angeles, just got an agent who basically just sent me out on auditions even though they never signed me, it's called hip-pocketing. This role was basically my first ever role on camera, I was nervous as all get-out.

The only thing to console me was, to this day, I remember how long that day was. Any actor will tell you that when you're in a conference room scene and you have multiple people speaking on multiple sides that you're in for a long one. This was 12 hours.

I remember that my parents watched 'JAG' and were so excited that I had 'made it', they saw me on the screen."

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