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Jennifer Holcombe
Occupation
Voice Actor, Motion Capture Artist, Actress, Comedian, and occasional chanteuse!
Short Bio
Broadway World calls her “funny and fantastic.” Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, actress Jennifer Holcombe presently resides in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA in Musical Theater and lived in NYC for many years, performing in local and regional theaters around the country. She then earned her MFA in Acting from the University of California, Irvine and spent her summers treading the boards as some of Shakespeare’s most charismatic leading ladies including Beatrice, Viola, and Rosalind.
Today her work ranges from representing national brands in network commercials to playing robots and monsters in motion capture volumes. Alongside her acting career, Jennifer is a cast member on the React YouTube channel, a leadership facilitator for Fortune 100 executive teams, and a D&D aficionado.
In each day we’re alive, tell us the three things you’re grateful for:
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The privilege of having my needs met daily.
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Family, both blood and chosen – what could be more precious than human connection?
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Personal healing – nothing has changed my life more than the difficult but incredibly gratifying self-work I’ve done through therapy.
Favorite type of music:
Truly anything that brings on spontaneous dancing or singing. That might mean anything from 90’s pop throwbacks to Ella Fitzgerald. Though recently I found some absurdly fun Lord of the Rings lo-fi beats that lock in my focus more than Gollum on his precious.
Who would you switch lives with for one day if you could:
Probably someone neurotypical. I’d love to know what it’s like inside the minds of those who don’t always have 3 songs, 6 conversations, and live narration by Sir David Attenborough consistently vying for your immediate attention.
Could also be pretty cool to be an astronaut for a day. I mean, what view could compare?
Name the biggest pet peeve you have- no holds barred:
No holds barred, huh? Let’s see… discrimination, lack of turn signal use, theme park line cutters, people who don’t pick up their dog’s poo, when technology takes its sweet time to load a webpage, folks with no awareness of others, and mosquito bites. (Somehow they always find me. Always.)
How do you psyche yourself up for the day ahead:
I love to start my morning with something positive or educational, like “The School of Greatness” podcast or one of the many audiobooks I’ve got on my Libby shelf. My current shelf includes some fantastic ones like “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle, “101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think” by Brianna Weist, and “The Gifts of Imperfection” by Brené Brown. I also started taking cold showers in the morning to wake up… and trust me, though it’s the absolute worst at first, that dopamine hit is so worth it.
Go to products in your bag you can’t live without:
Burt’s Bees chapstick, Aveeno hand cream, Colgate Wisps (my dentist is as obsessed as I am), anything RMS Beauty, Trader Joe’s lavender hand sanitizer spray, and Beauty of Joseon sunscreen (shout-out to Dr. Whitney Bowe for the brilliant recommendation!)
How do you use Sundays to destress from work:
Being an actor, my schedule doesn’t always maintain a consistent rhythm, so sometimes Sundays mean catching up on auditions and creative projects, while others mean gym time, homemade pancakes, FaceTime with the fam, and laugh-crying to Ted Lasso.
How would you describe yourself:
A professional goofball who gets paid to tell stories in the hopes of entertaining and affecting change in others.
I’ve also begun coaching as a means of helping folks embrace the idea that they have everything they need to create the life of their dreams. That’s been a difficult mindset for me to accept, but the more I do, the more incredulity I have at how many amazing things show up in my life… seemingly overnight.
What is your biggest weakness and strength:
My ADHD is truly both my biggest strength and weakness. Since being diagnosed just a few years ago, I’ve learned how to better navigate the challenges and skills that my neurodivergence presents. Yes, I may have total time blindness, the object impermanence of a wee babe, and a complete inability to answer the 47 unread text messages that have been sitting on my phone for 8 months… but I can also hyper-fixate to accomplish tasks with expediency, converse with almost anyone who comes my way, and creatively strategize to help solve any problem.
What’s your hidden talent that no one, not even your partner knows about:
Well I’m pretty much an open book, but most people who’ve met me as an adult probably don’t know that I was a hardcore choral singer for the first twenty-five years of my life. I sang everything from high soprano in Handel’s Messiah each Christmas, to emergency tenor (when the guys needed a little extra support in the school chorus because, well… puberty.)
What’s one trend you would obliterate forever:
Low rise jeans and society’s unrealistic beauty standards. Oh, and low rise jeans.
