Today’s guest, Elizabeth Dennehy, came from very humble beginnings, saw her dad’s struggle with his own career, decided her family was a priority, worked even more when she was pregnant, and has found ways to help other actors.
Plus, we get another mini-Shakespeare class where Elizabeth dives into a piece from Macbeth! She’s been an audition coach for years, and has also helped many students with their college auditions, so you’ll definitely want to check this out!
And yes, she’s also the daughter of actor Brian Dennehy, who shuffled off his mortal coil in 2020 after a long and celebrated career. Among many other things, we talk about pursuing the dream: seeing it with her father and then doing it herself.
This episode really shows there are many ways into and through this business, whether your parent is a major film star or not, you still find your own way, so whatever your situation is, you've got to want it and work at it. And her dad: he was proof that he really had to work at it for a long time before it paid off, and as you’ll hear, he was very lucky.
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The WAJ podcast is designed to show you HOW the work is done, WHAT the realities of the working actor life are like, and to share all the different ways actors have come to this career. There is no one path and no single answer. We want to learn from all of those further down the road, to shorten the learning curve and to discover what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to having a lifelong career as an actor.
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