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I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

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Andre Holland
Age: 44
Born: 1979
Born: December 28
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Alabama
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I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.
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[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!
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I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.
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If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.
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Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.
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Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.
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The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.
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I had a cheat sheet because I knew Tarell [Alvin McCraney]. His movie is largely autobiographical. I knew about certain events in his life and some of the people he talks about. I had visited the place where he lived many times so I understood innately what that was.
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I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.
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My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.
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When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.
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The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.
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There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.
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Barry Jenkins just cast the right people and framed things the right way.
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I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.
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I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.
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People sometimes say, What is your dream role? I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.
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I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.
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Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.
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All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.
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