Grace Gealey
Grace Gealey
Grace Byers is an American actress, known for her role as Anika Calhoun in the Fox music-industry primetime soap opera, Empire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth26 July 1984
CityButler, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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Because of the fact that being a professional actor is not a career that is widely pursued back home in the Cayman Islands, I never thought it was a viable profession. It didn't even cross my mind. So when I knew I wanted to do theater, I didn't think 'actress,' even though I loved to perform.
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Back home, we watch a lot of movies, and that was never available to us. When I came to America, I was like, 'No, it's really coming out this Friday? Not three months from now?'
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Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.
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There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.
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There a lot of other things I love to do. I consider myself as an artist, so I dance, I paint, I sing, so as long as I'm creating, I'm happy.
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I'm really easy to please and not high-maintenance at all. I like that chill, not stressed-out kind of lifestyle.
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I used to run around barefoot and climb trees and pick fruit and sell it on the side of the road like a real island girl.
I used to have really long hair. It was a big fro with mad curls.
believe
I honestly believe in a force that's larger than our own.
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Having racially diverse casts on television is a more accurate depiction of the demographic of the world we live in.
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Bruno Mars, I'm kind of obsessed with him.
As a kid, I was obsessed with Meryl Streep, and I still am.
As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.