Morgan Saylor
Morgan Saylor
Morgan Frances Saylor is an American actress. She is known for portraying Dana Brody on the Showtime series Homeland from season one to three. Along with the rest of the cast of Homeland, Saylor was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2013 and 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth26 October 1994
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.
I don't like shoes. I get a lot of splinters, though.
I'm very good at living out of a suitcase. I love dressing up every morning. It feels like a costume, in some ways.
I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.
I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.
It's hard to do things like auditions, because you don't want to put weeks of work into just an audition.
One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you. But there's still an anonymity in it.
I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.
Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.
Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.
I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.
I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting, like if I'm not wearing the proper shoes for a character I feel totally off.
As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.
I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.