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A Life in Acting with Emmy Award-winning Actor, Director, Writer CADY McCLAIN

·1 hr 6 min·5 clips
Katie McClain won her first Emmy at 21 by devoting herself night and day to scene work.
Emmy-winning actress Katie McClain discusses her journey from child actor to soap opera star, sharing how she balanced family responsibilities with her career. She reflects on the challenges of the industry, the importance of community in theater, and how art serves as a tool for empathy and personal healing.

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A steady portrait of acting as discipline, inheritance, and endurance.

Cady McClain frames acting as discipline, work, and survival as much as career. She describes winning her first Emmy at 21 after two years spent night and day on scene work, class, and plays, and ties that drive to becoming the breadwinner young after her parents divorced and…

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For a listener who wants acting craft tied to discipline, family, and long soap-opera memory.

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