My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My first wife was a theater person.
My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
I grew up performing in theatre.
My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.
I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club.
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.