My first break wasn't professional - I was in 'The Sound of Music' when I was five. I played Gretel, the youngest one, because that was what kind of took off for me in terms of loving acting.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
I started out doing the acting, and there was always an interest in music, and then the music just took off.
I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.
As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.
I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.
There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.
Making a transition to the adult acting industry was pretty smooth for me, and I had a great balance and a great opportunity not to do just children shows.
When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
I guess my first big break was getting the hit show 'Cavemen' on ABC. People made fun of it, but it was a huge opportunity for me and moved me out to L.A., where I learned a ton about acting and how much I didn't want to be in makeup for four hours a day.