leela
watts
stage and screen actor
“I pop a beautiful sentence in my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop”
Bohumil Hrabal
My career as an actor was born from my love of reading. More than that, it was born from my love of peoples’ stories- of the inner worlds and infinite complexities and contradictions of human beings. Each script I’m handed is a gift, and it’s my greatest joy to give life to the words I read on a page. When I read a brilliant script, it’s pure love.
To anyone who’s taken the time to stop by this page and finds themselves connecting with my words- I hope we can bring a story to life together soon.
In April, I acted in the two-hander dark comedy The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould, produced by Haven Chicago at the Den Theatre, as well as a workshop of the new work Personal Library by Emma S Rund, produced by Ego Death Theatre Collective.