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I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

— Beth Henley

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✓Similar Perspectives

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

— Sarah Shahi

I pretty much got into theatre to do community theatre and things, but then I went to Williamstown and found an agent. I then went to New York and did a lot of theatre there, so I started doing only theatre.

— Jimmi Simpson

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.

— Zendaya

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.

— Paul Feig

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

— Gary Burton

I grew up doing musical theater.

— Chris Colfer

I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

— Jesse Eisenberg

After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school.

— Chris Parnell

✗Opposing Perspectives

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

— Mary Badham

I grew up performing in theatre.

— Valorie Curry