Interview with Atlanta Workshop Players
INTERVIEW: Canedy Knowles, the story of enough...
Fall is near and the northern winds blew the wickedly talented, beautifully effervescent and disgustingly brilliant Canedy Knowles to our sweet peach state! I was lucky enough to sit down with our newest Georgia resident to discuss life, the arts and being a mom! The laughs were plenty!
Read the interview here
Fall is near and the northern winds blew the wickedly talented, beautifully effervescent and disgustingly brilliant Canedy Knowles to our sweet peach state! I was lucky enough to sit down with our newest Georgia resident to discuss life, the arts and being a mom! The laughs were plenty!
Read the interview here
Chattanooga on stage, screen and behind the scenes: Many local folks making it in the national entertainment biz
Canedy Knowles threw a temper tantrum on the streets of Manhattan this week — and she couldn't be prouder.
That scene opened last Monday night's episode of "Odd Mom Out," the new Bravo scripted show in which Knowles plays the recurring character of Marisa, an Upper East Side mom in New York City.
She is one of several homegrown actors and actresses who have either been on the air so far this year or who are involved in projects that will air later this year. While Samuel L. Jackson is arguably Chattanooga's most famous actor, he is supported by a cast of established or rising stars representing the Scenic City.
"Odd Mom Out" was created by and stars Jill Kargman, playing a fictitious version of herself, Jill Weber. The show satirizes the elitism of the city's wealthy mommy cliques. Knowles' character has her meltdown — complete with jumping up and down in stilettos before throwing her cellphone to the sidewalk — because her son wasn't accepted to the prestigious kindergarten she desired.
"That's not something I would do, but felt so good to do," Knowles laughs. "It satisfies that impish part we all have to want to act that way. That's why I love playing Marisa."
The actress also had a good role in the May finale of "Blue Bloods," the CBS drama starring Tom Selleck as the patriarch of a family of New York City policemen. That was Knowles playing the trauma-team nurse who wrestled Donnie Wahlberg (Danny Reagan) out of the ER as his wife was being prepared for surgery after being shot.
"That was a really fun character and experience," she says. "We came in a day early and they had medical experts there who taught us the procedures of how to save someone from a gunshot wound. So I learned how to do that sequencing and to understand what their roles would have been. The director had us do it a bunch of times so it really felt very immediate and tense with all the emotion. When it got to the moments where I was wrestling with Danny, it really felt real."
Or viewers might have caught Knowles in "Blacklist" at the first of this year, playing a mom who discovers a dead body while walking her daughter to school.
The actress and her real daughter, Davis, are currently working in an independent film together called "Mommy Heist," about three moms who hold up a jewelry store. The mother-daughter team is also filming a "mommy travel show" with another company that she says she hopes will end up on television.
In fact, the entire Knowles family has the acting bug. Rex Knowles and Sherry Landrum, her parents, are known locally for founding Chattanooga State Community College's Professional Actor Training Program. This summer, Landrum has been leading children's summer theater camp in Atlanta; her husband is taping a show there that he plans to pitch for television. The premise of "The Joke Hunter" is two guys traveling the U.S. looking for a good joke, he says. Knowles asks the campers, ages 9 to 18, to give it their best shot.
"It's funny, they have some great jokes. This is what Art Linkletter must have felt like when he said kids say the darnedest things," he jokes.
Jessie Knowles, the couple's other daughter, is directing a documentary about the Atlanta Workshop Players; their granddaughter, Lexi Knowles-Coffey, has a part in "Not Just a Kid" music video for the band LOUD.
"The whole family has a DNA strain that just makes us all have to do this," Canedy jokes.
Read entire article here.
See photos here.
That scene opened last Monday night's episode of "Odd Mom Out," the new Bravo scripted show in which Knowles plays the recurring character of Marisa, an Upper East Side mom in New York City.
She is one of several homegrown actors and actresses who have either been on the air so far this year or who are involved in projects that will air later this year. While Samuel L. Jackson is arguably Chattanooga's most famous actor, he is supported by a cast of established or rising stars representing the Scenic City.
"Odd Mom Out" was created by and stars Jill Kargman, playing a fictitious version of herself, Jill Weber. The show satirizes the elitism of the city's wealthy mommy cliques. Knowles' character has her meltdown — complete with jumping up and down in stilettos before throwing her cellphone to the sidewalk — because her son wasn't accepted to the prestigious kindergarten she desired.
"That's not something I would do, but felt so good to do," Knowles laughs. "It satisfies that impish part we all have to want to act that way. That's why I love playing Marisa."
The actress also had a good role in the May finale of "Blue Bloods," the CBS drama starring Tom Selleck as the patriarch of a family of New York City policemen. That was Knowles playing the trauma-team nurse who wrestled Donnie Wahlberg (Danny Reagan) out of the ER as his wife was being prepared for surgery after being shot.
"That was a really fun character and experience," she says. "We came in a day early and they had medical experts there who taught us the procedures of how to save someone from a gunshot wound. So I learned how to do that sequencing and to understand what their roles would have been. The director had us do it a bunch of times so it really felt very immediate and tense with all the emotion. When it got to the moments where I was wrestling with Danny, it really felt real."
Or viewers might have caught Knowles in "Blacklist" at the first of this year, playing a mom who discovers a dead body while walking her daughter to school.
The actress and her real daughter, Davis, are currently working in an independent film together called "Mommy Heist," about three moms who hold up a jewelry store. The mother-daughter team is also filming a "mommy travel show" with another company that she says she hopes will end up on television.
In fact, the entire Knowles family has the acting bug. Rex Knowles and Sherry Landrum, her parents, are known locally for founding Chattanooga State Community College's Professional Actor Training Program. This summer, Landrum has been leading children's summer theater camp in Atlanta; her husband is taping a show there that he plans to pitch for television. The premise of "The Joke Hunter" is two guys traveling the U.S. looking for a good joke, he says. Knowles asks the campers, ages 9 to 18, to give it their best shot.
"It's funny, they have some great jokes. This is what Art Linkletter must have felt like when he said kids say the darnedest things," he jokes.
Jessie Knowles, the couple's other daughter, is directing a documentary about the Atlanta Workshop Players; their granddaughter, Lexi Knowles-Coffey, has a part in "Not Just a Kid" music video for the band LOUD.
"The whole family has a DNA strain that just makes us all have to do this," Canedy jokes.
Read entire article here.
See photos here.
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