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Podcast: In the Envelope: The Actor’s Podcast
Episode: D’Arcy Carden
Description: D’Arcy Carden is proof that breaking through in the biz usually requires years of studying the craft of acting, practicing resilience amid rejection, and getting by with survival gigs. After graduating from Southern Oregon University and moving to New York City, D’Arcy was “equal parts delusional and also confident,” she says. She knew the odds of making it as a professional actor and held onto the dream anyway.
She is now best known as Janet, the cheerful virtual assistant of the afterlife, on four seasons of Mike Schur’s beloved NBC comedy “The Good Place.” Around the same time she was e...