Marilee Talkington
Marilee Talkington (she/they) is an award winning actor, artist, writer, director, creator, educator, consultant, disability advocate and activist. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) and received the Carol Channing Trouper Award for Excellence and Dedication in the Craft upon graduation. Marilee has been advocating for herself for nearly 20 years as a disabled performer and began advocating for the blind/low vision and disabled community on the national level in 2018. In 2019 she founded Access Acting Academy, a 1st-of-its-kind actor studio specifically for blind and low vision actors, for which she innovated a leading-edge pedagogical approach to actor training rooted in her Anti-Ableist and Non-Visually Biased teachings.
Batsh*t Bride
as TheresaOn April Fools' Day, just before her wedding, a bride pranks her fiancé by saying that she...
Movie pageThe Home
as GretchenA troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers...
Movie pageLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Golda SimonIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...
TV Show pageSee
as Souter BaxA virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins...
TV Show pageNew Amsterdam
as Maren ThompsonThe new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public...
TV Show pageFBI: Most Wanted
as Fiona PaleyThe Fugitive Task Force relentlessly tracks and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau's...
TV Show pageIn the Dark
as KimmyMurphy is a flawed and irreverent woman who just happens to be blind and is the only “witness”...
TV Show pageExtrapolations
as JaniceEight interconnected stories told over 33 years explore how our planet’s changing climate will...
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