Nathan Fillion

A career as a profession actor wasn’t something that was supposed to be in the cards for Nathan Fillion. The Edmonton native wanted to be a high school teacher and was studying at the University of Alberta when he received a call that turned out to be his first big break. It was a call telling him that ABC wanted him to audition for one of its soaps, One Life to Live.

"It’s hard for me to believe that I got that job," Fillion recalls. "I was going to school to be a teacher. I come from a family of teachers. It’s a very noble profession. A reel that I had done somehow went from Edmonton to Vancouver to L.A. to New York and I got a call to ask if I wanted to audition for One Live to Live. Three weeks later I was on the show."

It wasn’t as though Fillion had no previous acting experience. In fact, he’d done a lot of theater acting. But transitioning from the stage to television isn’t as easy as you’d think. The biggest difference, he soon learned, was that acting on television lacked the immediacy of reaction he’d gotten used to as a theater performer.

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