For the Fourth of July weekend, I managed to get away to Palm Springs for a few days and it was great to swim and relax by the pool. I've had very little downtime throughout lockdown so it was wonderful to really switch off. Los Angeles has had to reverse some of its...

I arrived back in LA on 31 May and had to spend the next 14 days self-isolating so that was half of June gone. While I was in isolation, the TV and film industry was given the green light to reopen from 12 June so from 15 June, I was straight back into auditioning.  I...

I was in the UK when COVID 19 reached Europe and the US so I spent the first 10 weeks of lockdown in Surrey, England. Not much to do but sit tight and take each day as it comes. I have my book, Surviving Hollywood, to promote so I am getting stuck into that. At the...

Book release April 2020. Acting is a tough profession. Making it in Hollywood is even tougher. British actress Julia Farino has survived in LA longer than most and here she shares her experiences and offers practical tips and advice on how to avoid the pitfalls and...

I saw in 2020 in the UK happily catching up with friends and family and then returned to Los Angeles on 7 January. As soon as I landed, I had a flood of commercial, film and TV auditions and had interest from the production offices on a TV show in Altanta and a...

After a year of near misses, it was great to end the decade by booking a commercial which filmed up in Canada for four days before the holidays. There was snow to get me into the Christmas spirit and the added bonus was that the director was Oscar nominated Todd...

I know it's not quite the end of the year but so far 2019 has been a year of near misses. I have been on hold for 6 US commercials, 1 commercial in Europe and 1 film in Europe and I have been released from every single project. It makes it hard to keep going sometimes...

September whizzed by as finally, the first season of the sci-fi thriller, Age of the Living Dead, was released on Amazon Prime in the US and the UK and I was busy preparing press releases and doing interviews. I also had the last couple of shoot days on season two of...

After 4 years of not setting foot on a stage, I was invited to take part in a night of British music hall songs at the Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, and the moment I arrived at the theatre, I realised just how much I have missed live...

I'm in need of a win. Having been put on my sixth “avail” for a project and then released, and having had 3 auditions for a thriller, feature film trilogy and not heard anything, I'm started to wonder when I'm going to get a break this year. At the beginning of May, I...