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Jessica Schwartz – Amoeba Music: Poster Girl

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Jessica Schwartz

Age: “A lady never tells.”

Jessica has lived in LA for 5 ½ years, but is originally from New York. She has worked at Amoeba for 5 ½ years.

YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN HER IN: “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job – Season 3,” and “Austin Stories.” Jumping out of a car in Secondhand Lions. And, “If you ever watch really bad movies, you have seen me in Levelland, it’s about skateboarders….the real tricks is growing up.”

UPCOMING: An Old Navy Commercial

THIS JOB HELPS AS AN ACTOR BECAUSE: “They are super flexible and really understanding when I have an audition. I also enjoy meeting people at the registers. Just the other day, I rang up a casting director and he asked for my information.”

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Billy Calhoun – Amoeba Music: Cashier Manager

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Billy Calhoun

Age: 27

Billy has lived in LA for 9 years, but is originally from Chicago. He has worked at Amoeba Music for 5 years.

It took Billy 50 auditions to land his first acting job.

FAVORITE CELEBRITY SIGHTING AT WORK: Parker Posey

YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN HIM IN: A Christmas Too Many, a Wanadoo Cell Phone commercial, and a Partnership For A Healthy Mississippi Anti-Smoking commercial. Click here to see Billy’s IMDB page.

THIS JOB HELPS AS AN ACTOR BECAUSE: “The company is very supportive of the arts. It’s also great to be surrounded by other creative people while at work.”

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Written by Mark

December 23rd, 2009 at 9:00 am