Alycia Debnam-Carey
- sn pubs
- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min read
Alycia Debnam-Carey is a rising Australian actress who has starred in several television series such as Fear The Walking Dead and The 100 that greatly contributed to her rise to stardom. She has garnered the attention of many due to her natural acting that has brought many powerful and strong characters to life.
Alycia had always dreamed of pursuing acting and by the age of eight, she already had a first taste of the industry. Her first role was in a film named Martha’s New Coat and this had won her the attention needed to land small gigs on australian shows like McLeod’s Daughters, TV movies such as Dream Life, and a short film called Jigsaw Girl. In high school, while she was chasing her dream of becoming an actress, she managed to perform well academically and even focus on music. For a whopping ten years, Alycia trained as a percussionist and joined 39 other young musicians at a two-week music creation program with the Berlin Philharmonic. Even though she had the choice to pursue a full-blown career in music, she decided to continue chasing her acting dreams.
As an actress, Alycia has expressed how tedious the job is, as they have to travel consistently and shoot for long hours of over 12 hours with little time off. Moreover, the television shoot schedule is an accelerated form of a movie. “For a film you have the whole script in its entirety for a couple of weeks, so you can learn scenes and really rehearse them so that when you get to them, they’re more fleshed out. But TV shows are harder. You don’t really learn them as a full script, because they change the drafts quickly.” She says. Furthermore, as she was committed to both The 100 and Fear The Walking Dead, she had to constantly travel between LA and Vancouver. She was even studying and working on her assignments while acting. I truly commend her for her capability to dedicate herself to both her studies and acting.
Personally, I really admire Alycia’s ability to juggle both her studies and acting and even have the time to focus on music. I feel that her determination to become an actress even though she had alternative choices is very inspiring as she stuck to what she was set on pursuing. Moreover, she made time in between her acting to study and finish her assignments. Most students nowadays only need to concentrate on their studies and yet many struggle to do so. I feel that we should all learn from Alycia’s dedication and commit ourselves fully to the important things in our lives.
Sources:
Angelica Chiw
4 Truth
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