I'm a military brat.

My pops was a Command Master Chief in the US Navy. We traveled a LOT. My brother (who is also my best friend) and I were raised in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East before settling in the DC area. My first foray into "professional acting" was playing opposite Bob Hope in a USO Christmas Special. I was eleven, but because I was teeny tiny, I played a five-year old. I toured around the Middle East entertaining grateful soldiers and I shared a dressing room with Barbara Eden and Connie Stevens.   A month later, I received a check in the mail from Bob Hope Enterprises for five hundred dollars! My little eleven-year-old brain was like, "HOLD ON A SECOND. I had the time of my life, AND I get paid for this?!?" In that moment, my career was born.