Our students have booked Co-Star, Guest Star, Supporting, and Lead Roles in
In Time, Grey’s Anatomy, Contagion, Mad Men, Modern Family, Parenthood, Sons of Anarchy, Private Practice, Law & Order: LA, Outsourced, Criminal Minds, Desperate Housewives, Still Waiting, How I Met Your Mother, Southland, The Young & The Restless, Friends With Benefits, Bottle Shock, Torchwood, Inhale, Trauma, Zodiac and many more!

Tamera Mowry-Housley
To fall, get back up, learn and enjoy the process. You learn to not only grow as an actor but also as a person.
Side Hustles | 2024 |
Scouting for Christmas | 2024 |
Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major | 2023 |
Dream Moms | 2023 |

Siua Ikale’o
First Take is a gracious gym for your acting and creative muscles.
NCIS: Hawai'i | 2022 |
Normal Ain't Normal | 2022 |
They Don't Cast Shadows | 2022 |
Pick A Side | 2021 |

Rex Wheeler
Without the things I’ve learned from class and from other actors’ stories, I wouldn’t have gotten that letter!
Max and Sadie | 2023 |
Tongue Thai'd with Pangina Heals | 2023 |
Punk Kids | 2023 |
Alex is a Queen | 2023 |

Robert Wu
Her industry connections in LA are invaluable for those who intend to make the move down here!>
The Monkey King | 2023 |
A Christmas Mystery | 2022 |
Death Stranding Director's Cut | 2021 |
Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha | 2021 |

Eduardo Decolosio
And here I am two years later with a recurring guest star role, on a major network television show
Knawbone Creek | 2024 |
Makeshift Society | 2023 |
FBI | 2022 |
Promised Land | 2022 |

Michael Rhys Kan
Within the first (6) months of studying at FirstTake with Nancy, I saw my commercial booking rates increase dramatically.
Blindspotting | 2023 |
Half of Me | 2020 |
Desolate | 2018 |
Sorry to Bother You | 2018 |

James Carraway
Nancy has a gift for understanding a scene, how to translate that into action, and into the realities that will deepen it for the actor to live within the life of the character.
A Summer in Winterbury | 2021 |
Guitar Man | 2018 |
Dredg: The Thought of Losing You | 2017 |
Chance | 2016 |

Chad Davis
Nancy and the First take team have given me the ability to produce better acting/being–I notice that during every audition I have.
The Rookie | 2025 |
General Hospital | 2022 |
The Orville | 2022 |
Stumptown | 2020 |

Carolyn Power
Nancy works hard to create an acting program that not only teaches us how to make in LA, but she insists that we always exercise our courtesy, poise and integrity at every moment.
Last Chance Charlene | 2022 |
Strange Angel | 2019 |
Bartlett | 2018 |
Chance | 2016 |

Allen Theosky Rowe
Anybody thats wants to be an actor should definitely take a dose of Nancy’s (First Take) acting class and stick to it!
God's Absence | 2023 |
The Last Nora | 2022 |
FBI: Most Wanted | 2021 |
MYSTERY & MISCHIEF Case of nomaj scramble | 2021 |

Shonte Akognon
First take has played a huge part in my development as an actor.
Churchy | 2024 |
Final Heist | 2024 |
A Christmas Mystery | 2022 |
Solve | 2018 |

Trevor Nagle
First Take Acting stands at the pinnacle of actor’s training! In the past few years, my career has absolutely exploded…
Gone with the Dead | 2024 |
Where's Manny? | 2024 |
Snack Shack | 2024 |
Junction | 2024 |

Wynton Odd
I’ve had the pleasure of attending First Take Acting for several years now – both in person and online – and it has been nothing short of a groundbreaking journey
Punk Kids | 2023 |
Blindspotting | 2023 |
Senior Year: Love Never Fails | 2023 |
Sum of Your Luv | 2022 |

Molly Brady
I know that I would not be where I am today if it was not for joining First Take.
Miss Represent | 2021 |
Collisions | 2018 |
Sorry to Bother You | 2018 |
The Internship | 2013 |

Jay Liu
…what makes First Take unimitatable, undeniable and irreplaceable. The people that stand with you
Freaky Tales | 2024 |
The Audience | 2023 |
For All Mankind | 2021 |
Paying Mr. McGetty | 2018 |

Hector Bustamante
In less that two years I have booked roles in eight TV shows and two major films
Starfield | 2023 |
Paki | 2022 |
Overleaper | 2022 |
Garrison7 | 2022 |

Fontana Butterfield
Nancy Berwid is an incredible teacher. Period.
Concerto for Abigail | 2024 |
Women Is Losers | 2021 |
In Freefall | 2018 |
Mr. Invincible | 2018 |

Susan Chung
With Nancy at First Take you can become that authentic actor…
The Bright Side of Being Barren | 2024 |
J is for Jackson | 2023 |
What's Your Thing? | 2022 |
They Don't Cast Shadows | 2022 |

Heather Young
It was through the First Take method and her wonderful teaching that I was able to grow tremendously as an actor and develop my craft.
Chinatown | 2023 |
Pride Jewel | 2022 |
Nash Bridges | 2021 |
Miss Represent | 2021 |

Nandini Minocha
Nancy has an uncanny ability to spot what’s unreal in the scene.
Class Acts | 2024 |
You Broke the News | 2023 |
Night Court | 2023 |
Bryce | 2023 |
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