Jennifer Parkhill

Jennifer Parkhill Instagram – Part 2/3
At school, I carried a thick book on breaking into the business of acting. I’d had my first agent at age 12, the unexpected outcome of a beauty pageant my grandmother had placed me in to distract me from my parent’s tumultuous divorce. I’d earned but two non-speaking film credits but from the POV of my 17 year-old brain, four years at a university would only stall my imminent success. None of my family had graduated college. It wasn’t a given that I would go. I chose not to try.
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Until years later.
A story for another day.
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Highlighter in hand, I snuck my walkman headphones on beneath my hoodie to drown the voices of my academic teachers, read my books on acting, and study lines for whichever school play I was starring in. I was failing my economics class, missing often in order to complete my training at the hotel where I’d been hired. Securing a survival job as a restaurant hostess to support the pursuit of an acting career felt more important, more practical, more economical for my future than grades.
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My friends were studying for the SAT.
I was going to be an actress.
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(Cont..)
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Photographer: @rebeccathered
Director: Sean Salcido
HMU: @mylanmedrano
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