True Blood’s Mariana Klaveno: From Farm Girl to Hollywood Vampire
An Interview with Actress Mariana Klaveno As Lorena, the seductive vampire in the award-winning HBO series True Blood, actress Mariana Klaveno has established both a cult following and mainstream Hollywood success in contrast to her dark role in the series—which culminated (or did it?) when Anna Paquin’s Sookie staked Lorena in a recent episode—Klaveno’s own […]
Glee’s Jessalyn Gilsig: From Montreal to Hollywood
An Interview with Actress Jessalyn Gilsig After graduating from McGill University in her native Montreal, Jessalyn Gilsig studied at Harvard’s prestigious American Repertory Theatre. Television, however, became the medium that would define her career—she’s worked on some of the most iconic shows of the last decade. One of Gilsig’s most memorable characters was the troubled […]
A Serious Man, a Ladies’ Man: An Interview with Simon Helberg
Simon Helberg on Acting and the Appeal of The Big Bang Theory Simon Helberg nails the character of Howard Wolowitz, a nerdy aerospace engineer who thinks he’s a ladies’ man, on CBS’s smash hit The Big Bang Theory. He’s a native Angeleno who studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and trained […]