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I've been acting since 2002, around about there.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

Yeah, I went to ACT for a while. It was great.

When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It's more like, 'Hey you, Step Brother!'

I chose John Carroll Lynch as my SAG name when I was 19 years old. I was working in D.C., and I got my SAG card by doing a first aid film for the Red Cross called 'Bleeding Control'. They had a union contract.