I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor's degree in 2003.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I wanted to pursue acting after college.
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.
When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.
I wanted to do a degree in something I was interested in before going into acting.
My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.
I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great acting program. I graduated in '95.