We had a great conversation with Actress Colleen Foy on The Chris & Sandy Show. We talked about so many things from family, acting, sacrifices, she told some amazing stories especially about her first moving to LA. This episode got a little emotional and you will see. Colleen was amazing!
Actress Colleen Foy is featured opposite Ana de Armas, Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody and Julianne Nicholson in the Netflix, 2022 feature film Blonde, writer/director Andrew Dominik’s fictionalized chronicle of the life of Marilyn Monroe. In this eagerly awaited film, produced by Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, she plays a psychiatric nurse who takes care of Marilyn’s mother. Colleen is perhaps best known for her multi-season arc as Inara, on the Shondaland / ABC series Station 19, who survived a violent marriage and began a relationship with the firefighter who rescued her.
Colleen grew up in a family of social workers in Milwaukee and loved hearing stories about her paternal great grandparents, who were touring vaudevillians. She graduated from Dominican High School, where she performed in every play and musical the school produced. Her personal highlight was the female lead in a production of The Little Shop of Horrors. She earned her degree in Theatre Studies at Marquette University, in her hometown.
A seminal moment for Colleen occurred at Marquette when a friend – the first Deaf student at the university – wrote Quid Pro Quo, a play that is totally performed in American Sign Language and voiced by off-stage actors. The show won the prestigious American College Theatre festival and Colleen performed it at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Newly proficient in ASL, Colleen’s first professional acting job post-college was a year long tour with the National Theatre of the Deaf. The only hearing actor in the company, Colleen played Alice in their adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Their performance caught the attention of the producers of Sesame Street, who hired Colleen and her castmates to film multiple segments teaching the “Sign Language Word of the Day” for their huge national audience.
Within the first year of moving to Los Angeles, Colleen made her feature film debut in director Paul Thomas Anderson’s acclaimed drama There Will Be Blood, in which she played the adult Mary Sunday opposite Daniel Day Lewis’s Daniel Plainview character.
In television animation, Colleen co-starred in the Ever After High series, playing Holly O’Hair, the daughter of Rapunzel. Additional television series credits include 9-1-1: Lonestar, Bones, Castle, Franklin & Bash, Code Black, Cold Case, The Client List, Criminal Minds, Tacoma FD, and she has recurred on The Bold and the Beautiful, Sundance’s This Close, and CBS All Access’ Strange Angel
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