Marilee Talkington

Biography

Marilee Talkington (she/they) is an award winning actor, artist, writer, director, creator, educator, consultant, disability advocate and activist. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) and received the Carol Channing Trouper Award for Excellence and Dedication in the Craft upon graduation. Marilee has been advocating for herself for nearly 20 years as a disabled performer and began advocating for the blind/low vision and disabled community on the national level in 2018. In 2019 she founded Access Acting Academy, a 1st-of-its-kind actor studio specifically for blind and low vision actors, for which she innovated a leading-edge pedagogical approach to actor training rooted in her Anti-Ableist and Non-Visually Biased teachings.

Known For

Acting

2019

Batsh*t Bride

as

Theresa

2025

The Home

as

Gretchen / Faceless Woman

Extrapolations

as

Janice

FBI: Most Wanted

as

Fiona Paley

New Amsterdam

as

Maren Thompson

See

as

Souter Bax

In the Dark

as

Kimmy

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as

Golda Simon

NCIS

as

Annie Barth

Production

Crew

Directing