From singing and dancing on home videos at age 3, to taking 9 years each of art lessons and piano lessons, 4 years of vocal training, discovering a surprisingly hidden talent for acting in high school, majoring in music education and voice performance at The Catholic University of America (for 1 year before marrying her soulmate), dancing for fun (especially freestyle and ballroom) songwriting since preteen years, self-taught calligraphy and even makeup artistry, she'll always find a way to express herself in creative and artistic ways!

Having no interest in seeing any drama presentation through 9th grade in Connecticut (despite closer friendships with the theater-types), it took the admonishment of her Maryland high school music director to even try out for the spring musical, "The Music Man" and being cast as the female lead of Marian before anyone knew there was dramatic talent waiting to express itself from within her. That's all it took for the "acting bug" to bite her, and it bit hard! She also was cast as the lead in other high school productions, as Aunt Abbey in "Arsenic and Old Lace" and Dolly in "Hello, Dolly!". At CUA, she continued her acting interest extracurricularly as one of the choristers/dancers in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" while studying music ed. & voice. She would have majored in musical theater except for the lack of dance training - in hindsight, she wishes her parents had not allowed her to quit ballet at age 7 - such was not the path she was meant take.

She decidedly put her creative interests/career goals aside to marry her best friend, opting for office/clerical work until she became a stay-at-home mom after 4 years of marriage. However, the unsinkable acting bug resurfaced its creative head when she began pursuing child modeling for her second baby, and it didn't take long before she figured out how to pursue her artistic passions while remaining true to her first priority of family. She discovered that from their home in Maryland, she could build a nice part-time income doing something she absolutely loved. (Although, she quickly decided to avoid the hectic pace of child modeling with her daughter.) She received commercial & teleprompter training from Brenna McDonough and John Leslie Wolfe in Kensington, Maryland, and film acting training from Robert Christie in Columbia, Maryland, in addition to reading up on more refined film-acting skills.

From 1998 when she booked her very first professional audition on a national industrial gig, to the present (2003), she has enjoyed success building a substantial resume that includes appearances in 3 major theatrical film releases, a lead role in one independent film Shallow Deep (2002), supporting principal roles in 2 other indies, two TV documentaries, a QVC guest product representative appearance, over 30 commercials and infomercials (airing locally, nationally & internationally, most in a principal role), and over 20 industrials/training videos (hosting/narrating most of those), as well as a few voiceovers - quite a few gigs for only 5 years of professional work! She has also modeled occasionally, preferring the more animated genre of on-camera acting.

While her stereotypical role has been the "all American mom" and spokesperson/host, the challenge of bridging the gap to the opposite end charactistically for a lead role in the film _Shallow Deep (2002)_ was by far the most artistically satisfying, as she created and expressed in every breath, glance and gesture the backstory of Morgan, whom Lynn describes as "criminal, trashy, yet desperately lonely in the deepest crevices of her soul".

And the "backstories" of her own life, her husband's and her children's lives must always take precedence, as she knows that in life, there is no dress rehearsal: the gift of living life is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and her goal is to live an intentional and positive legacy. "Carpe diem!"

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Lynn Sprinkle

Actress