Today we’d like to introduce you to Caylee Cowan.
Caylee, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I was born in Los Angeles, California, and have lived here most of my life. I wanted to be an actor since childhood, but we didn’t have the means to support those kinds of dreams. It wasn’t realistic. We were barely managing to get by. My mother worked three jobs, but we were still on food stamps, our house was foreclosed on, and my father wasn’t in the picture.
Growing up, I went to 11 different schools. I was dyslexic and had a speech impediment, but by the time I was in high school, I had overcome those setbacks. I was in advanced placement classes and ahead in both math and science. I had difficulty reading until third grade, but now I love to read and have a large library at home. To live inside the pages of a book is my greatest dream. That’s what sparked my interest in acting in the first place.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It was not a smooth road. There were many bumps along the way. There is an ample amount of rejection that accompanies each success. I wanted to go to drama school, but I was not accepted. In hindsight, had I gone to drama school, it would’ve been derailed by the Covid pandemic, and I would have done my last year of school online.
I wouldn’t have accomplished all that I have with my career in those four years had I gone. I’ve learned so much by working and gaining on-set experience. Sometimes rejection is just a redirection that will ultimately lead you in the right direction, so don’t let it discourage you.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I started my career in community theater by doing performances in productions of Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, and Danny in the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley. Then, I began to audition for films and was cast in a movie called “Sunrise in Heaven” in 2019. That was my first movie, and we shot it in 11 days. It was released on Netflix a year later.
Then, I played a supporting role in a movie called “Willy’s Wonderland”, a supporting role in “Bad Detectives, and a horror movie called “Incision”. I’m 2021, I was cast as Penelope in a movie called “Frank and Penelope” which premiered at the Riviera International Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival.
What do you think about luck?
I am lucky to be where I am considering where I’ve come from. I hope that my story is encouraging for others.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm9090581/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cayleecowan/?hl=en
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/CayleeCowanOfficial/
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