Today we’d like to introduce you to Nathaniel Wooley.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I was born in a small town. Jonesboro, Arkansas. Growing up I was a quiet kid and didn’t really have much friends. That mixed with family issues really made things hard for me. To escape, I’d watch a movie called Rango. Back then we didn’t have cable so my only form of entertainment was that movie, over and over again. And I fell in love with film right then and there. It became an escape for me a place where I couldn’t go to feel alive. Eventually we moved to Texas and during this time I really focused on school and sort of put acting on the back burner. I was in a couple of players during grade school but that was it. After I graduated highschool I got back into acting again and booked my first future film (Choices-On Tube) and it was off to the races after that. I booked short films, feature films, commercials, plays, you name it. Fast forward to now, I’ve just graduated college and am currently involved with a feature film and a play. I’m extremely excited to had out there into the real world and conquer my dream of being a profound actor in the industry!
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It has not! I don’t come from the riches background so money was always an issue. Me and my father have a complicated relationship as he wasn’t really around much. There was a period in time in my childhood where my father was incarcerated and my mother wasn’t deemed fit to raise me and my sister so I was put in the foster care system for a while. To this day I don’t remember exactly where I went or what that experience was like, but I think that’s for the best. My mother had gotten breast cancer while I was finishing high school which really took a tole on me mentally. I had to really consider the possibility of her not being around anymore and how I was going to survive this world without her.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am an actor in the DFW area. I do Television and theatre work. Im probably most known for my work in “Seize the King” a retelling of Richard the third at University of Texas at Arlington. This is also the performance I am most proud of as I feel it was and still is my best acting performance to date! I think something that sets me apart from other actors is my tenacity and commitment to storytelling combined with my life experience. I’m able to take everything I went through growing up and channel it into my work, giving me this ability to intensify my woe and really draw people in to what I have to say.
What was your favorite childhood memory?
During high school me and some friends would get together and have a “boys night” we’d eat, swim, play fight, and just have a good time.
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