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On Deck: Oona Roche

office sat down with Roche before she headed to Los Angeles for the filming of the breakout show’s second season. If you haven’t tuned in yet in fear of adding another subscription onto your monthly expenses, get a seven-day free trial, and binge it all week long, Roche advises. 

 

Season two is currently set to release sometime around November 2020. So in the meantime, hang around, and get to know the breakout actor below.

 

 

My name is: Oona Roche.

 

I'm 24 years old.

 

My birthday is: August 3, 1995 (Leo).

 

I live in: East Williamsburg now. I think you grow up really fast in Brooklyn. You start taking a train alone when you’re 11, 12 years old. You learn to watch your own back from a really young age. You’re deprived of nature, but it’s such a gift to grow up in a place where there’s every kind of person. 

 

You might know me from: The Morning Show. I play Lizzy Craig. Lizzy’s a really privileged teenager; she grew up wealthy and goes to boarding school. Lizzy and her mom, Alex, flip-flop between being the caretaker and the person who is being taken care of, because Alex is kind of absent as a mother. Lizzy’s really disciplined and organized, so she holds a lot of tension in her body because of the lifestyle that her mother leads. I relate to her, because she grew up in New York City. And although we grew up in different economic brackets, there’s a sense of street smart and wisdom that you’ll find with most kids who grew up here.

 

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was: born. My grandfather was an actor. He died in June of 1995, and I was born in August in the same year. I kind of have always felt like he went out, and I came in. I grew up with badass feminist role models on stage too—my aunts were this folk trio called The Roches. I would watch them perform, and before I could even understand what the theater was, I had so many theatrical acts in front of me all the time.

My dream role is: a cowgirl, I don’t know. I’d love to play a real, hardcore cowgirl in a Western, like in Annie Get Your Gun where she was doing all those horse tricks.

 

Something that people might not know about me is: that I’m a singer-songwriter. It’s not something I advertise to the world per se or that I am pursuing professional, but it is something that comes really naturally. It’s always been a part of my life. I come from a family of folk musicians. My dad is a singer-songwriter too, and I perform and sing a lot harmonies with him. We had a little duo thing going for awhile, and I’m really proud of him. He just released an album—it’s called Griefcase by David Roche. 

 

My last meal would be: dependant on how I’m feeling that day, but I guess like a brownie ice cream sundae with a lot of hot fudge. Or some really banging al dente pasta with butter—I love pasta. It’s the number one invention.

 

I have a fear of: working in a restaurant forever. That’s me being really honest. But I don’t even want to put it out there. I don’t want to feed it. 

 

By the end of 2020, I hope to: be on stage again. My training is in theater, and I have a BFA in acting from SUNY Purchase. I’ve spent more time honing my craft on a stage than I have in film and television, but my opportunities have been mostly in film and television since I graduated. We also just came back from Sundance with this film that I’m in called The Nest, so I’m really excited to see what life it has in 2020. 

 

If I were an animal, I would be a: dolphin. [Laughs] They’re really playful and sensual animals. They’re sweet and cuddly—it’s not typically how I would describe myself, but today, I feel like a dolphin.

 

If you could see my aura, it would be: somewhere in the orange-red spectrum. I’m elementally fiery, for better or for worse.

 

I’m currently working on: the second season of The Morning Show. We’re shooting in Los Angeles.

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