My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.