South African Actress Kirsten Jones Takes To The World Stage With Her Talent

All the wonderful movie stars and stage greats from the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 1980s are pretty much gone. We can see their old films on the Internet or on one of the streaming venues if we like, but how can we go on without them? What do we do without them?

Well, when you see the generation of actors that inhabit movie sets and stages today, you will realize that they have been wearing the mantle, invisibly passed down to them from all the generations of actors before them. The traditions of what acting is really about have been handed down from one generation to another, and that goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks and Romans to Shakespeare and to the method actors of the 1950s through the present.

 

Kirsten Jones, the incredible actress from South Africa, represents all the great things that actors and actresses from the past possessed. Hard work and taking her vocation seriously are only two of the attributes she shares with her acting “ancestors.” She also comes prepared before she steps foot on a movie set or a stage. Of course, she has wanted to be an actress since she was four years old and her line of sight and concentrated effort to get where she is today is almost unbelievable. She transplanted herself to England when she was 15 to attend an acting school. Then she was awarded a scholarship to a college in London and moved there solo. Kirsten is also a very talented writer and earned a BA in creative writing from another university. Are we exhausted yet from all her traveling and studying and moving forward to her goal? Apparently, she wasn’t because she then moved to California for a non-acting job and quit soon after to continue to energetically pursue her acting career.

She is an artist in many ways, including writing and acting and like other artists (painters, sculptors, etc.) she can’t not act. It’s in her blood and in her soul, which means that she will never stop until she attains her goal.

After she quit her non-acting job, she won another scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, the oldest acting school in the country. Upon graduating she hasn’t stopped working and that’s the way she likes it. After all it’s her chosen path and she is great at it. She has accomplished a great deal in the short time she has been a professional actress. She co-wrote a play called Something You Don’t Know, which was one of eight plays chosen out of 500 submitted. She has also acted in three plays this year and she has been signed to act in two upcoming feature films. In February of this year she played a male British butler, Edgar Teese, in the play Murder at Memory Manor at the Hudson Theaters.

She was surprised to see the veteran actor and movie star Jude Law sitting right in front of her when she made her entrance. After the show Jude told her that she was perfect for the role and that she did the accent justice. Needless to say, Kirsten was elated and will always remember that moment and it was then that she realized she was ready to perform in front of anyone. A true professional.