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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

I was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.