Lauren LeMay had wanted to be an actor ever since she was a little girl, but living in Communist Romania made that dream next to impossible. "It was a dream that you could only pray about," says LeMay. "I wanted to move to America and act, but there was no way the government would let us leave." The revolution took place during her childhood, and a few years later her family had saved up enough money to move to Chicago.After LeMay finished high school in the Midwest, she packed up her Firebird and told her family she was moving to California to be an actor. "My parents thought I was going to come right back, but I didn't," she recalls. "That was seven years ago. I barely spoke any English, and I didn't know what a headshot and résumé was. I watched TV with no subtitles, went to acting school to meet people,...
- 4/21/2010
- backstage.com
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