What originally interested you about becoming an actress?

I grew up in a small town in Ohio and I always loved doing the community theatre and community stuff there.

I danced a lot. I was a ballet dancer too, so somewhere around High School I had to make the decision, "Do I want to dance? Do I want to act?" I chose to pursue acting, so when I applied to colleges I was primarily looking at NYU which was where I ended up going.

Once I got there and out of Ohio, I began to learn about the art form and that�s when I really fell in love with it.

I like to play all different types of roles. Every character I�ve played is really diverse from the last. I guess the thing that intrigues me the most in kind of fiction [is] taking someone�s life and making it come alive, doing justice to what they actually lived.

Was Hollywood everything you thought it would be? I�m still recovering from moving here. It�s crazy, it�s a different lifestyle. It�s not somewhere I really want to raise my kids but I�m enjoying it now and I�ve gotten used to it.