About 
About
I came from France after high school when the idea of becoming an actor started to grow on me. And after just a few weeks into my first drama class at California Lutheran University, I traded a path in medical studies for a theatre degree. I then moved to Hollywood and earned a Master of Arts from California State University, Los Angeles. In the process I rekindled with the artistic past of my family, which hails from the Netherlands. My grandads and my mother were all in the theatre and I found myself increasingly connected to my great-grandfather, Willem Hamel. He was a painter who participated, along with an influential group of artists from Holland, in the evolution of the art-form into impressionism. You can see two of his paintings, including a self portrait (which I like to think looks like me), below. I have since performed in film (Bridesmaids starring Kristen Wiig; Rominus with Ed Asner and Faye Dunnaway, Surface Sensible produced by French production team Forge), on TV (Comedy Centrals Mind of Mencia; Girlfriends starring Tracy Ellis Ross) and in professional theatre in and around Los Angeles (title role in Romeo and Juliet at the Met Theatre; supporting role in Cyrano de Bergerac at the South Coast Repertory; Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream and Orlando in As You Like It With the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company, among others).
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