He’s Wes Ramsey (Class of ’96) who is co-starring in a SciFi Channel movie, Reign of the Gargoyles, at 9 pm EDT. Wes is a really talented guy who has had quite a few parts in TV shows and movies since graduating from Juilliard in 2000, including roles on Guiding Light, Charmed, CSI:Miami and Luis. In 1993 he co-starred in the satire, Latter Days, in which he plays a gay who falls in love with a Mormon missionary visiting his home.
Reign of the Gargoyles does not promise to be the next Star Wars. In fact, before learning Wes was going to be in the flick, I was going to pointedly ignore it, since the promos looked pretty cheesy. But since Wes was a former student of mine, I’ll put up with the cheesiness.
Then when he gets an Oscar or Emmy in years to come, I can say, “I remember when …”
One of our alumnae has in fact won an Emmy. Mary Clay Boland (Class of ’88) won in 2005 for “Outstanding Achievement in Casting for a Drama Series” for: “As the World Turns”. [Click here for a photo.] She had also been nominated the previous year for the same series.
Mary Clay was also the casting director for the first season of The Sopranos. Her casting agency, Boland/Eggman, is based in NYC.
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Some of Wes’ and Mary Clay’s ouevre:
yeah, I watched the Latter Days movie on Thursday night…it was okay. I probably won’t ever watch it again, but I thought it’d be nice to at least check out Wes’ acting skills. Of course he may not have had a lot to work with…Anyway, I’ll bring it home for you to watch next time I visit.