My Acting Career

In 1988 I was living in Beeton, Ontario, a small little town, but a great place to raise my children.  A new television series called "War of the Worlds", based on the famous radio show and movie, filmed an episode there, and I signed up to be an extra, along with my good friend Trish.  We were cast as townspeople who had been taken over by the aliens, so we still had human form, but were just wandering around aimlessly until it came time for us to chase down the Jeep that the heroes were trying to escape in.  It took three days of filming, and by the time I finished, my feet were so sore from running in high heels for take after take after take, that I threw the shoes out!  The series starred Jared Martin, who played Dusty Farlow in the tv series "Dallas", and also Richard Chaves, who had just finished filming "Predator" with Arnold Schwarzenegger (he played Ironhorse in the movie).  Both really nice people, and I enjoyed a coffee with them during a break.  The series was not one of the best, and I think it only lasted two seasons, but I certainly had fun being an extra in it, and I made sure to videotape the episode, in which I appear a good half dozen times, including rocking and chasing the Jeep down the main street with  my fellow alien townspeople!

Jared Martin in the middle, me on his left, another extra on his right.
 Richard Chaves in the foregrround, and a Canadian actress,
Lynn Mason Green, who also starred in the series.