I was in chemical engineering at Cornell University. My girlfriend at the time dared me to do a play. I knew there was something I wanted, not necessarily engineering.
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I was a chemical engineer in school. And, randomly, an ex-girlfriend dared me to do a play.
I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.
Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.
I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.
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