User:HollywoodProfile/Colleen Foy

Colleen Foy is an American actress best known for her work in the Academy Award winning film THERE WILL BE BLOOD and for originating the role of "Lindsay" in QUID PRO QUO onstage at the prestigious Kennedy Center.

Life and Career
Colleen Foy started acting in high school and was acting non-stop by college, where she performed on her University's mainstage, in their small black box theatre, and in local professional thetre pieces. In her senior year, she performed in her friend Garrett Zuercher's senior these, QUID PRO QUO. The play was unique in that it was performed completely in American Sign Language and voiced by offstage actors. The play was entered into the American College Theatre Festival and was chosen to be performed at the prestigious Kennedy Center.

Colleen's first year out of college was spent touring the country as "Alice" in ALICE IN WONDERLAND with the National Theatre of the Deaf. Colleen was the only hearing member of NTD's Company in the 2004-2005 season. A Casting Director for SESAME STREET caught one of NTD's performances and invited the company to perform in several segments of the classic show teaching the "Sign Language Word of the Day" to millions of children.

After living in hotels for a year, Colleen relocated to Los Angeles to start her TV and film career. Within 3 months, she was a SAG memeber with a national commercial. Since then, she has done several more commercials, and has appeared in primetime TV shows COLD CASE, CRIMINAL MINDS, and SWINGTOWN, and the Academy Award winning film THERE WILL BE BLOOD, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis.

Colleen's rising profile in Hollywood was noted by one of the Film Industry's most prestigious magazines, MovieMaker. ''For most aspiring young actresses, that first glimpse of success comes in the form of some sort of low-budget horror flick where the only job requirement is the ability to scream a piercing scream. But not Colleen Foy. For her feature film debut, she’s starring opposite Daniel Day-Lewis and working under the tutelage of director Paul Thomas Anderson in There Will be Blood. While many still believe that it takes a hustler to make it in Hollywood, Foy is proving that a little good nature can go a long way.''