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Jul 26, 2022 · The consummate character actor joins Little Gold Men for a career-spanning chat, from Breaking Bad to Winter’s Bone to her upcoming star vehicle, A Love Song. By David Canfield July 26, 2022
1994–present. Diana Dale Dickey is an American character actress who has worked in theater, film, and television. She began her career on stage, performing in the 1989 Broadway version of The Merchant of Venice, before appearing in popular revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweeney Todd and more off-Broadway and in regional theaters.
Aug 10, 2022 · – Dale Dickey . With roles in projects like Winter’s Bone, Vice Principals, Palm Springs and True Blood, Dale Dickey has proven time and time again that she is on of the best character actors working today. She routinely comes into a scene, knocks it out of the park and leaves the rest of the cast to pick up the pieces.
- Lance Carter
- I. Early Days
- II. A Lead Role
- III. “I Take The Jobs”
- IV. from The Heart
- V. “The Most Wrinkled Person in Hollywood”
THE BELIEVER: What has changed for you since you first started acting? DALE DICKEY: In my early years, I was struggling. Struggling. I couldn’t get an agent. I was auditioning, waitressing, doing workshops, and constantly acting in plays—it was always this drive I had. I feel like I’ve been running my whole life too. Maybe I’ve been running from so...
BLVR: The media has proclaimed, thunderously, that you can carry a film. Does that confirmation change anything for you? DD: That’s a complex question. I was very relieved that I didn’t mess up Max Walker-Silverman’s beautiful vision. I have spent so much of my time in supporting roles, in the background, that it’s almost where I’m more comfortable...
BLVR: You’ve now worked with two great independent filmmakers: Debra Granik on Winter’s Bone, and now Max. How important is it for you to choose to work with those people, instead of taking the parts that pay the most money? DD: That’s a great question. I was asked that recently and responded, “Well, I don’t have the luxury of turning down work.” I...
BLVR: In your own life, what books are you drawn to? DD: I have to admit I was never a good reader, and it’s something that I am working on. I love poetry and reading short stories. I just bought Brian Cox’s biography because I love him as an actor and studied with him. He was my teacher years ago when I studied in England for the summer. I’m very ...
BLVR: Tell me about how you got that role in The Pledge [2001]. DD: This is what really happened. I get this audition call from Don Phillips who did all of Sean Penn’s movies. I go into Don’s office and I’m waiting to read the script. We’re just talking and he goes, “Dale, I don’t need you to read. I can look at your resume and tell you can act. I ...
Jul 28, 2022 · It belongs to Dale Dickey, a superb character actor who has often been deployed — in settings ranging from the eastern Kentucky of “Justified” to the Missouri Ozarks of “Winter’s Bone ...
Jan 21, 2022 · A character actor with more than 125 credits to her name, Dale Dickey is perhaps best recognized for playing worse-for-wear junkies and hillbillies in film and TV (her credits include “Winter ...
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Nov 15, 2023 · Dale Dickey on her role as a gran bent on revenge and the resolution of the actors' strike by Amber Wilkinson Last year, we wrote about the pleasure of finally seeing character actor Dale Dickey - so memorable in roles in films including Hell And High Water and Winter’s Bone - finally get her teeth into a lead character, with Max Walker-Silverman’s gentle drama A Love Song .
