Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaint
Lorraine Toussaintis an American actress and producer...
NationalityTrinidadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth4 April 1960
left room trusting
Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.
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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.
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I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her.
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I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.
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I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human.
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How well I walk my talk, and not talk my talk, determines the quality of my engagement, of all my experience with what is quite personally my God. I'm my greatest teacher, and within me, I have the power to push myself deeper and higher.
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'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.
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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.
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.
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.
series
I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.
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.