A B.C. actress has landed a role on a TV show set to start filming in Vancouver this summer.
Courtney Paige Theroux, 27, grew up in Kelowna, where she started her acting career at a young age.
“When I was five years old, I basically loved performing, and it’s been a dream of mine ever since,” she said.
At 11 years old, Theroux joined the Kelowna Community Theatre, where she participated in productions such as Annie and Jack and the Beanstalk.
Theroux graduated from Okanagan Mission Secondary in 2006 and went on to attend Okanagan College before focusing on her true passion.
“I decided there was nothing else I wanted to do besides be an actress,” said Theroux. “I had one suitcase and I moved to Vancouver in 2009.”
In Vancouver, Theroux took classes at Vancouver Acting School and Railtown Actors Studio.
“I trained as hard as I could for six years,” she said.
Theroux has worked with Lifetime Network, Universal and YTV, and she recently booked a role on a new E Online network TV show: The Arrangement.
“It’s basically Entourage meets 50 Shades of Grey, but more appropriate for television,” she said. “It’s a dream come true.”
Filming begins this summer, where Theroux will play a recurring guest star named Annika.
“My character is an aspiring actress who moves from a small town and she’s the puppet of the producer of the show,” she said.
“There’s a lot of truth to my character. She is basically crazy in a nutshell, and I was always teased as being crazy in high school.”
In addition to filming the TV show this summer, Theroux is also spending time writing a movie of her own.
“A friend of mine is making a couple of movies in the Okanagan this summer, and I am writing a horror thriller that we’re potentially filming this summer at my cabin,” she said.
Theroux is excited to see where her career takes her next.
“I would love to work alongside Hollywood’s A-list actors, have an award-winning writing career, do theatre on Broadway and one day own my own production company and star in my own films,” she said.
“And like every actor, the icing on top would be to win an Academy award someday, but it would not define my career.”
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