Coming off the high of that booking, I just wanted to run away and hide from the less-than-inspiring “survival jobs” I’d been stringing together. I had a blast on the job, shooting a few national spots for Wendy’s opposite Morgan Smith Goodwin. Hey, like I said I’m a SoCal native! Unless my cold weather is the necessary evil of a ski vacation where I get to spend my days on the moguls and it’s socially acceptable to wear SKI CLOTHES to stay warm, I’m out!) After a few agonizing years of getting my footing in the Film and TV scene, I booked my first big commercial gig. (You’d think a girl who grew up in Cleveland shouldn’t be fazed by the cold, but Chicago cold is no joke! And I’m a total wimp. I had had some success in Chicago after college, but a winter and a half there set my sights even more firmly on getting back out to LA. I moved back to Los Angeles in 2010 for my Acting Career. Five years turned into ten, ten turned into fifteen … fast forward a few decades after their move, and I’m the only one who found the road back to the beach. My parents figured they’d live in Ohio and enjoy the lower cost of living for about 5 years before they would bring the family back home to LA. My parents met in college at UCLA where my dad and uncle worked as hashers for my mom’s sorority Alpha Delta Pi! As the story goes, my mom was the most popular girl in the house, always tying up the phone lines with all her suitors, and my dad pined for her and persisted until, well … many years passed, she agreed to marry him and then had my brother and me! When I was four years old, my dad got a big promotion at work for TRW and was asked to relocate to the headquarters in Cleveland. I’m actually a native of Los Angeles, but I spent most of my childhood years in Ohio. So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story. Today we’d like to introduce you to Erin Barnes.
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