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

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
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Siua Ikale’o

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
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Rex Wheeler

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
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Robert Wu

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

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Eduardo Decolosio

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
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Michael Rhys Kan

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
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James Carraway

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
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Chad Davis

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
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Carolyn Power

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
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Allen Theosky Rowe

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
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Shonte Akognon

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
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Trevor Nagle

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
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Wynton Odd

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
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Molly Brady

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
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Jay Liu

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
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Hector Bustamante

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
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Fontana Butterfield

Fontana Butterfield

Nancy Berwid is an incredible teacher. Period.

Concerto for Abigail
2024
Women Is Losers
2021
In Freefall
2018
Mr. Invincible
2018
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Susan Chung

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
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Heather Young

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
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Nandini Minocha

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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