Word: zimmett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zimmett eventualy decided in the flurry of Common Casting auditions to try for Tinkerbell. She, among many others, read for the part and at the end of the process one woman was called back--but not Zimmett. It wasn't until a few weeks later that Zimmett's stroll into stardom began...
...director, Marcus Stern, called me and asked me to audition again for the part," says Zimmett of her recall. "I was surprised--I had thought that I was out of the running...
...Zimmett auditioned four more times before finally getting the part of Tinkerbell. The performance may have marked her first experience with acting in a professional production, but stage acting is not a new vocation for Zimmett. The slight sophomore remembers performing for relatives as a child and appeared in high school productions before winning roles in Harvard productions of "Coriolanus," "Titus Andronicus" and "As You Like...
...wait! No snap judgements, please. Zimmett tries to avoid theatrical stereotypes, listing acting last among her interests when she first meets someone to avoid what she considers an egotistical or flighty drama stereotype. However, she does admit that her personality includes a flair for the dramatic, a tendency to play the prima donna...
...that's just acting. In reality, she's more of an ingenue. Zimmett says people describe her as a Demi Moore-type and once someone said she looked like Juliette Lewis, but she concentrates on a resemblance to Vivien Leigh. "Our facial tics are the same," Zimmett offers, convincingly...