How much time have you got? I'm a natural-born raconteur, I'm a Leo, a cynic, and an optimist. All of which led me to become professional actor. While in high school I developed a personal philosophy to live by (which I won't bore you with, rest assured) and have pretty much stuck with it ever since. I found a way to live life in a more peaceful and harmonious fashion. It helped me deal with the rough spots and gave me a generally cheerful outlook. I expounded on it one day to a friend who laughed and said I had "discovered" Taoism. There went my dreams of self-help authorship!
In later years, I also became interested in the Golden Age of Piracy. I joined a pirate reenactment guild, assembled a wardrobe, and took up swordfighting, sailing, fight choreography, and anything else that might relate to piratical skills. It took years and a nice chunk of change but, as Dave Barry once put it, "There is a very fine line between a hobby and mental illness". The big payoff for all this hard work was being cast in Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl back in 2002. I've been appearing in movies and television shows as a pirate ever since - most recently on the History Channel in "True Caribbean Pirates" and as an East Indian Pirate in "Pirates of the Caribean - At World's End".
Whew! How was that?
