Renée Elise Goldsberry

thumb Renée Elise Goldsberry (born January 2, 1971) is an American actress and singer. Quotes Really just with the words and the intent of the writer. I think actors, by nature, are pleasers, so I think our first instinct is to want to fulfill the vision of the writer and director and, at the same time, bring ourselves to it. I often hear people say, “He’s just playing himself,” like that’s not what we’re trying to do, and I have no shame at all in saying that I’m trying to find the part of me that is that character. So there will be similarities between characters that I play because there will be things that work for more than one character. I think the more intimately you know a character, the less of you you’re trying to censor. There’s not a part of my day or my experience that I don’t think can serve any character I play. I’m always having debates with actors about feedback. I’m 100% against getting feedback about auditions, I’m 100% about getting feedback from directors and when you’re working with people. But in terms of you going out for roles, it’s your job or it’s not, but I don’t need information about why it didn’t happen. Because most of the time, there’s nothing that’s true about what I’m going to hear, especially by the time it gets back to me in the game of telephone. I honestly believe it’s either your job or it’s not, and all the rest of that work trying to find out, “Was I funny enough? How did I do in that moment? Was I this or that?” It’s not helpful. As actors, it’s destructive because we give it too much weight. I think I’ve always felt like that. I think you have to be very particular about who you get feedback and criticism from, and there are certain processes you don’t ask for feedback for and one of them is an audition process. And I think a lot of that—what type are you, she’s too tall, too short, whatever—all of these things are qualities you have as a human being, and they’re things to be celebrated. Even if they don’t necessarily get you a particular job, they are things that are particular to your DNA and will get you the right job. And to think that there’s anything wrong with how you came across at any one moment is unhelpful. I’m sure that’s true. In my twenties I was in a long distance relationship for many years, and he was a great guy and good friend. One of the things that was most valuable about it was that it allowed me to live as a single woman in Los Angeles and have a lot of friends who were guys who were not offended that I wasn’t going to date them because I had a long distance boyfriend. It was a way to say no without any personal offense. I don’t know if it would have been easy to have those friendships, if I had not had this thing that had nothing to do with them that was the reason we weren’t hooking up. I tell you that because it’s one good thing about being in Hamilton right now. It’s something people understand—saying no because you’re in Hamilton. It’s probably the best excuse in the world to not do [something]. An Interview with Renée Elise Goldsberry;By Victoria Myers on April 26, 2016 External links Category:Actresses from California Category:Women singers from the United States Category:Living people Category:1971 births Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:African Americans