Carlacia Grant

Carlacia Grant is an American television actress. She is a series regular on Netflix teen mystery drama Outer Banks. Quotes I discovered my love for acting when I went to a theatre camp when I was 13. It honestly was like electricity ran through my body, like I came alive at that moment. From learning the lines to performing on stage, the entire process of becoming an artist just felt right. There were times in my career when I feared it wouldn’t work out for me, but honestly… No. Every time I thought about doing anything else, it scared me into wanting to act even more because I truly love it and couldn’t imagine myself doing anything else. That was the first time in my career that I played a character that changed me, Carlacia, as a person. Doing the research in preparing for Irene and learning on a much deeper level about my people, I felt a responsibility and sense of pride in knowing I come from such resilience. It’s given my life greater meaning knowing I stand on their shoulders. Now I’m living my ancestor’s wildest dreams. Honestly, it felt like just another of the many auditions I had that week. I honestly thought I wouldn’t get it, so much so that I didn’t even want to do the audition let alone attempt the accent. My friend who was my reader [for the self-tape] convinced me that I should. So, we taped it and sent it in. Eventually, I got the call for a chemistry read that went great and the rest is, as they say, history. interview | carlacia grant The moment I started it, which happened to be in summer theater camp, I just fell in love with it. I knew it was what I wanted to do forever. I like the wider audience that film gives me but one day I would love to return to the stage. Yes, growing up I was very well-traveled. I lived in Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, etc. I also stayed in Paris for a bit. Paris definitely had the biggest impact on me because I stayed there for a while, and I didn’t speak any French so I actually learned the language in order to communicate with the locals. It exposed me to a different culture. I came back to the States with new knowledge of what it’s like outside of the States. Yes, it did influence my acting. Acting is about experience and the more experience I have, the more I can draw from to put into my characters. My agent sent me the audition, I sent in a self-tape from which I heard nothing. Then about a month later, my other agent informed my manager that they were still casting for the role and my manager suggested that we should resend the tape, and the rest is history "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: CARLACIA GRANT ON HER BREAKOUT ROLE IN NETFLIX’S 'OUTER BANKS' FOR THE INNOVATE ISSUE", November 20, 2021 External links 5260792 Category:Living people Category:Actresses from Connecticut Category:Women from the United States