Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaintis an American actress and producer...
NationalityTrinidadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth4 April 1960
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.
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.
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.
life playing work
I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.
attached best work
I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.
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.
aspect charge components key lookout
We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.
might
I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.
Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.
anyone bring disagree
I don't think anyone would disagree with this: You are self-directed in daytime, and that's it. So come with it, and bring it on the first take.
series
I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
advocate brings fond
I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.
allowance cover expose job peek people
My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.