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I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.

I believe I was actually the first single mother in a major film.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.