Malala Yousafzai

This is the 14 year old girl whose wish for education and willingness to stand against the Taliban got her shot in the head when the Taliban attacked her in a school bus ambush. News just came down that she’s alive, eyes open and recovering now in England where she was flown for her own [...]

Hostage Negotiating on “High Noon”

I grew up reading an occasional Nora Roberts book here and there. Who knew I’d play the television version of Detective Liz Alberta for Lifetime Television’s adaptation of her novel High Noon one day? I think the book version of my character is in her 40′s, Latina, and incredibly tough from her time in the [...]

Hunt for the I-5 Killer

Photo by Hunt for the I-5 Killer director, Allan Kroeker When I was offered a part in Lifetime Television’s Hunt for the I-5 Killer, a project about what it took to catch real life serial killer, Randall Woodfield, me and my friend Henry chatted about whether projects like these glorify what the killer has done. [...]

The project that changed everything: AMC’s “Broken Trail”

Up until AMC rolled into Alberta with Broken Trail, I’d been an extra or day player on a few Christmas television movies drifting through town, but acting was never something I’d allowed myself to seriously entertain. Broken Trail, would change all that. How the Journey Began… When I heard Emmy Award winning casting director, Jackie Lind, [...]

New York: I Love You!

Mowing down on corn on the cob in the East Village on a hot, hot day. I haven’t been back in New York since the premiere of Broken Trail, but I recently helped my girlfriend Rebecca (who writes the blog “Brown Eyed Girl in the Big City”) move there for theatre school! I was so [...]

Filming “Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking”

I recently read an article about Christian Bale starring in a new movie about the Nanking Holocaust, and I’m stoked. Not only because I watched him in The Fighter, and was blown away by his performance, but because I think a star like him backing a movie about Nanking will make an impact on the world in a [...]

Kicking off FRINGE Fridays!!

I never got to go to film school, but this is definitely the next best thing.

I get to go on set to field produce a behind the scenes look FOX’s Fringe, season 3.

It prepared me well to audition for the show and film one of the more challenging roles I’ve done to date. Thanks FOX

Shooting SyFy’s Eureka

In a scene with (from left to right) Chris Gauthier, Colin Ferguson and Warehouse 13′s Allison Scagliotti I had a blast shooting Eureka’s season 4 crossover episode with fellow SyFy show Warehouse 13. I played Dr. Lisa Wheeler, a PhD brainiac who is a prime suspect in the weird teleportation events happening in Eureka. The episode [...]