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- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Sally Jackson was born and raised in West Texas. She attended four colleges: The University of Kansas, Southwest Texas State, The University of Texas and Trinity University. She majored in Art and English, respectively. Miss Jackson moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico after a fourth year in college, and began a career in theater as a stage manager. It was here that she met with Godfrey Reggio of 'The Institute For Regional Education' and became a member of the crew on the highly regarded documentary film, Koyannisquattsi. Her love for filmaking was sparked by this experience. As major motion pictures cycled heavily into the state of New Mexico, Miss Jackson worked productions as 'Extras Casting Director' for many legendary Directors (see filmography). She recognized the extraordinary talent pool in the state and began lobbying LA casting directors to view tapes of local actors for roles formerly cast out of the Los Angeles area. After a few years of being instrumental in casting SAG roles on big budget films, on many major motion pictures, she requested a new 'credit' as 'Location Casting Director' and thereby coined the same credit phrase. Between casting films, Miss Jackson studied acting with legendary coach, Lawrence Parke, owner/writer of 'Acting World Books' and fondly remembered in Los Angeles as 'The StarMaker'. Currently Miss Jackson is on hold as 'Location Casting Director' for Cruise/Wagner, coaches the young, Hollywood elite for major films and pilot leads, reads scripts for one of the most respected producers in the business and performs regularly as a stand-up comedienne at 'The Improv', 'The Comedy Store', 'The Ha Ha' and 'The Acme Theater'. Her acting resume can be found in 'The Players Guide'. She has only one thing to say about all of this, "Onward through the fog".- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous
- In 2007 Sally Jackson moved to Austin, Texas to take care of her aging mother. She is represented by The Actor's Clearing House and continues to coach actors. Periodically she does her stand-up at the Velveeta Room on 6th Street and writes on a comedy blog with her sister, Kelly.
Kelly & Sally Jackson branded themselves 'The Midlife Gals' and now write a weekly column for More.com, a magazine targeted for women over forty. (More Magazine) They began making zany videos for their site, themidlifegals.com and writing their acclaimed and hilarious blog.
The Midlife Gals' ode to The Big Lebowski was shown at the SouthBySouthwest Film Festival and their pitch-package for their sitcom: The Midlife Gals/Necessary Insanity is being considered by numerous cable channels.- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Pronounsshe/her
- Sexual orientationStraight
- Race / EthnicityWhite
- Currently in Austin, Texas - writing, acting and teaching film acting at the Alleywood Studios.
- April 2008 - Our video, The Jazzy Scooter Barrel Race won runner-up award and is featured on an Emmy award-winning program called, Docubloggers on our public television station, KLRU. April, 2008 - Wrote, produced and acted in a fifteen-minute situation comedy pilot based on The Midlife Gals Acceptable Insanity for network and/or cable distribution.
May, 2008 - Interviewed for large article in local newspaper, Masters of Their Domain. Article to appear in June, 08 issue of The Austin American Statesman. August, 2008 - Profiled in Austin Woman magazine. - Hollywood/Film Acting Coach/Script Reader/ Actor/ Casting Director
- Produced 'The Midlife Gals' sitcom pilot to be shot in Austin. On August 11th at 6PM the first Midlife Gals' radio show aired on blogtalkradio. Bottom line - these gals are unstoppable.
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