Who is ali sheedy

I was five seven and weighed about pounds. It did not matter that I did a good job on auditions, that I was smart, that I had natural ability. So I dieted. I learned that whatever I might contribute to a role through talent would be instantly marginalized by my physical appearance.

I learned that my success would be dependent on what the men in charge thought about my face and my body. Everything I had learned back home had to go out the window as I adapted to these new requirements: what I looked like was paramount.

When I managed to land my first part in a big movie, I was given a ThighMaster as a welcome present and told to squeeze it between my legs at least a hundred times a day. He said it in front of the whole crew. I was too wide, I guess, in the skirt they had given me to wear. It was a challenge for me starting out, but it seems almost impossible for young women now.

I do volunteer work in film and theater with teenage students at a public school in New York. The kids are gifted and, in my junior class, we recently completed a performance of Shakespeare scenes for the rest of the theater department. I get cast as the hairdresser and not the pretty sorority girl. I reported it and nothing happened.

Even teachers will see you in that light. At sixteen these students are being judged on their sexual attractiveness. Their talent is a gift, but it is not enough. What can I be? What should I have? Apparently, the look is now a superthin stomach area, big breasts, big butt, gorgeous face, and a freed nipple. Sign In. Edit Ally Sheedy. Showing all 44 items. Auditioned for the movie A League of Their Own but didn't get the role because she couldn't play baseball well enough.

Is the eldest of three children born to an advertising executive dad and a literary agent mom. Her mother is Charlotte Sheedy , a prominent New York literary agent. Turned down the lead role in Wild Orchid Auditioned for the Molly Ringwald role in Sixteen Candles The addiction treatment Sheedy received was for sleeping pills. This helped her choose to participate in the film High Art , in which she played a once- famous photographer who had also descended into drug addiction.

Was the first cisgender female to play the transgender rock star Hedwig in the stage musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". They are still friends today. Danced with the American Ballet Theatre from about the time she was six and was rapidly pursuing a career, but when puberty caused her breasts to fill out and all the starvation diets caused her an eating disorder, she gave up dance and pursued acting full-time.

Was a bridesmaid at Demi Moore 's and Bruce Willis ' wedding. Ex-daughter-in-law of Edgar Lansbury. Studied drama at the University of Southern California, where one of her classmates was Michele Greene. She has played rape victims twice, first in her film debut Bad Boys and again in Macon County Jail Was considered for the role of "Sarah Connor" in The Terminator The part eventually went to Linda Hamilton. Sister of Patrick Sheedy and Meghan Sheedy. Niece-in-law of Angela Lansbury and Bruce Lansbury.

Owns a rescued, bluish-gray male greyhound, appropriately named "Sky". She is of Irish and German descent on her father's side, and of Ashkenazi Jewish descent on her mother's side.

Her second book, titled "Yesterday I Saw the Sun", is a collection of her poems written from childhood to adulthood. It was published in I started writing because I used to tell stories to the children who lived nearby and when I was six I started writing them down.

She started dancing with the American Ballet Theatre at age six and was planning to make it a full-time career. However, she gave up dance in favor of acting full-time, then she started studying acting with acting teacher Harold Guskin. At age 12 she wrote a book, She Was Nice to Mice. The book was published by McGraw-Hill Education and became a best-seller. On June 19, , she appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth. Sheedy started acting in local stage productions as a teenager.

After appearing in several television films in , as well as three episodes of the television series Hill Street Blues , she made her feature film debut in Bad Boys , starring Sean Penn , where she played Penn's humiliated girlfriend. Sheedy starred alongside Radha Mitchell in the independent film High Art , about a romance between two women and the power of art. In , Sheedy took over the lead role in the off-Broadway production of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. She was the first female to play the part of the genderqueer Hedwig, but her run ended early amid "mixed" reviews, according to E!

That same year, she was cast as a lead actress in Sugar Town , an independent film, which featured an ensemble cast of actors and musicians.