Jenna Gavigan’s role in the William Inge play “Come Back, Little Sheba” is the “vixen” Marie. Gavigan is on academic leave from Columbia University to pursue acting.
A recent newspaper interview [Shedding the wings, by Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2007; photo: Myung J. Chun] notes that “she wants to major in something ‘basic, [...]

Actor Vera Farmiga currently stars in “Joshua.” In addition to her perspectives below (from a new Los Angeles Times interview), she has also been quoted: “I really don’t feel a need to be famous. But I do feel a need to make a difference, to shed light on human emotion through acting.”
[LATimes: Anthony Minghella said: [...]

A common struggle
In my article Actors and Addiction, I quote Philip Seymour Hoffman about using drugs and alcohol earlier in his life: “It was anything I could get my hands on. I liked it all.” He got sober, he says, because “You get panicked. I was 22, and I got panicked for my life.”
He is [...]

“I don’t think I’m very much like anyone else, really. I’m sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don’t see anybody else and go, ‘Damn, they stole my thing.’ I’m me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.” …
“I don’t want to be a [...]

Two of the top casting directors in the business, who most recently cast the new James Bond, Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins reminisce about the many films they’ve cast, including Harry Potter, and A Beautiful Mind; the actors they’ve discovered, such as Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and Scarlett Johansson; and some of the A-list directors, [...]

Debi Mazar plays publicist Shauna on the HBO series Entourage.
“The business has changed as far as the perception of celebrity,” she notes. “Before, you know, you were a working actor and it was cool, and people knew who you were. Now there’s all this tabloid bulls**t and perks that didn’t happen before. People are basically [...]