Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaintis an American actress and producer...
NationalityTrinidadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth4 April 1960
clear love script turn unfolds
I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.
needed prove relaxed
'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
life
I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.
cameras direction expected love
Sometimes the character will go into a completely different direction than I expected once the cameras start rolling. That's what I love about what I do.
believe defies discussing faith interested rarely
People's faith, people's beliefs are such a personal thing, and it defies definition. I'm so rarely interested in discussing what I believe or what you believe. I think it's liquid, anyway.
dark self shadow
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
teacher children class
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
pride proud amelia
I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.
missing brain mind
When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.
ordinariness
It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.
dark light share
The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.
real inspiration character
When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.
praying rubbing
I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and praying over me.
cast immortal pleasure witch
I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.