A closer look of some of Atlanta’s up and coming talent…

Stranger Things, The Resident, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, are only a few of the successful productions shot in Georgia where one might recognize actors from our Top Talent to Watch cover. Oz reached out to some of Georgia’s top talent agencies to identify their clients that are securing auditions and booking roles. It was only a few years ago that a Georgia actor was merely auditioning for small television and film roles. Although many movies were filmed in Georgia, actors would jump at chance to drive to Wilmington and New Orleans to audition or to be a featured extra. They would audition to read “one line” or be in a small scene with an A-list actor. Now the audition opportunities are drastically different. Talent agents are offering their talent pool high profile and lucrative acting opportunities like a TV series regular role, or a lead role in a feature film, or the brass ring of an actor’s career: the three picture franchise movie deal with a studio. The Atlanta-based talents on this cover are just a few of Georgia’s many actors on the rise. Soon, you may say, “I know who that actor is! They’re from Georgia.”

​​SUMMER FONTANA:

HOMETOWN & HOW LONG LIVING IN ATLANTA: McDonough, GA for seven years.

FAVORITE MOVIE: Enchanted

KNOWN FOR: Hope in The Originals Season 4

MOST RECENTLY SEEN IN: The Originals

YOUR MOTTO: “Do your best and let God do the rest.”

WHAT’S NEXT: Dark Phoenix (June 2019)

INSTAGRAM: @SUMMERFONTANA1

CHAD DARNELL:

HOMETOWN & HOW LONG LIVING IN ATLANTA:

Atlanta. Happy to be home after living in Los Angeles for 16 years.

FAVORITE MOVIE: Silence of the Lambs

KNOWN FOR: Casting director – and writer / producer/ director/ actor

MOST RECENTLY SEEN IN: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

YOUR MOTTO: “Stay in your lane.”

WHAT’S NEXT: My screenplay Darlene starts shooting in the summer.

INSTAGRAM: @CHADDARNELL

MYLES TRUITT:

HOMETOWN & HOW LONG LIVING IN ATLANTA:

Atlanta all my life.

FAVORITE MOVIE: Glory

KNOWN FOR: New Edition, Queen Sugar, and KIN

MOST RECENTLY SEEN IN: Black Lightning and Queen Sugar

YOUR MOTTO: “Whatever you choose to do in life be ‘Tru2itt’.”

WHAT’S NEXT: More on Queen Sugar

INSTAGRAM: @MYLESTRUITT

PRIAH FERGUSON:

HOMETOWN & HOW LONG LIVING IN ATLANTA:

I grew up south of Atlanta between College Park and Fayette County.

I’ve been living here all my life.

FAVORITE MOVIE: The Devil Wears Prada

KNOWN FOR: Tiffany Haddish’s daughter in The Oath, Asia in Donald Glover’s Atlanta

MOST RECENTLY SEEN IN: Erica Sinclair in Stranger Things Season 2

YOUR MOTTO: “Stay true to myself, because I am enough.”

WHAT’S NEXT: I’m really excited about the new season of Stranger Things. I also have some other fun goals and ideas I’m working towards.

INSTAGRAM: @PRIAHFERGUSON