Well, now that they are doing press releases about the project, I can OFFICIALLY talk about it…yay! SO. A few months back I had the opportunity to do some voices for a scratch version(much like a ‘rough draft’) of a holiday special, Bent Image Lab was working on for The Hallmark Co. They ended up enjoying my work so much, I had a door opened for me with their casting director, in Los Angeles. I booked the part of MOM in the new, animated holiday special, “Jingle All The Way,” set to air on The Hallmark Channel, in late November, 2011! I am VERY excited to be a part of this project. It is directed by Chel White, who has done many projects with Bent Image Lab, as well as on his own, most recently the film “Bucksville” which utilized a multitude of Portland’s local talent pool. Although I have done some voiceover work, in the past, this is my biggest booking to date, and it will be seen nationally! To learn more about the wonderful, heartwarming, stop-motion, 30 minute special, CLICK HERE
I am so excited! A few months ago I read these “Dating Tips,” and I could not help but be amused at the thought of putting them into action. They were just so…ridiculous. Needless to say, since the thought of myself(or anyone, for that matter) actually acting these out made me laugh, I decided to make a funny video.
Check out the Glamour.com feature and watch my video via FunnyorDie.com. Make sure to rate it “Funny!”
As a result of winning the Grand Prize, in the AMC “Mad Men” Video Audition Contest, I have gotten some really great press attention, but I think my favorite so far has to be the feature in Glamour.com’s “The Girls in the Beauty Department: Daily Beauty Blog! This was a super adorable, “Mad Men” themed style feature, written by Petra Gugliemetti and they used yours truly to show it off. I love clothes, I love make-up, I love magazines, and I love the whole 1950’s/60’s, so this was quite a treat:)
Check out the article HERE! Below are some pics featured in the blog:
Morgan was chosen the Grand Prize Winner of the 2009 AMC “Mad Men” Video Audition Contest! Series creator of “Mad Men,” Matthew Weiner made the final decision and chose Morgan Elizabeth Cox to appear as a walk-on role, sometime in season 4 of the show! Take a look at the official winner’s announcement HERE!
A few weeks ago, I was invited to be a guest on the Portland, Oregon talk show “Keep it Local.” It was a great experience. There were a few “technical difficulties,” but despite it all, the interview was a lot of fun and for this struggling actress, a bit of positive press is always welcome. You can view my segment HERE!
As a result of the “Mad Men” Video Contest win, Morgan has been getting some fun attention from the press! A Portland, Oregon native, herself, Morgan Elizabeth Cox was featured in “The Oregonian.” The article was a spotlight in the entertainment section of the Portland newspaper, and on the front page of the section, no less. Peter Ames Carlin wrote a fantastic article, about the struggling, yet positive and motivated, actress. You can read the article at OregonLive.com! Here is a quote from the piece:
“I just thought, ‘How amazing to have him(series creator, Matthew Weiner) even look at my work,’” Cox said. “I had a camera built into my MacBook and had everything else I needed right there. So I thought, ‘Why not do it?”
Cox chose a monologue of Bobbie Barrett’s, a particularly willful character from the second season (“I really love playing direct and condescending, powerful females”), mastered the speech and went to her closet for the appropriate early 1960s-era clothes…”
-Excerpt from the Oregonian article on Morgan Elizabeth Cox, by Peter Ames Carlin.
