Arts & Entertainment
Plymouth Native Lighting Up Screen Again
Elyse Mirto has a recurring role on "The Last Ship," and guest roles on "Scandal" and "NCIS."
PLYMOUTH, MI – The face of one of the guest star on a handful of television dramas may look familiar to Metro Detroit residents.
It’s Plymouth native Elyse Mirto, who stars in a recurring role on the Turner Network Television series, “The Last Ship,” and guest roles on ABC’s “Scandal” and the CBS series “NCIS.”
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Mirto’s nearly 30-year acting career was capped recently by two top award nominations for her work on stage: the 2015 Ovation Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play alongside Laurie Metcalfe, who best known for her work on the television show “Roseanne,” and the Broadway World Los Angeles Award for Lead Actress in a Play alongside Emmy-award winning actress Laura Linney, The Plymouth Observer reports.
Mirto has starred in 11 plays since 2011.
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“It’s been crazy and busy – not a rational career, but I love it,” the classically trained actor who studied stage performance in London told the newspaper.
“It’s in my blood,” she told the newspaper. “There really is no other explanation. My mother insists I’ve been saying I wanted to act since I was in preschool.”
She spent five years on stage in Chicago, landed television commercials and then signed with one of the top talent agencies, which sent her to Hollywood, where she got a role in a short-lived television series and starred in an HBO movie opposite Ray Liotta, Don Cheadle and Joe Mantegna.
She also landed guest roles in “Chicago Hope,” “The Hughleys” and “JAG.”
After the death of her brother, Mirto headed back to the stage, where she won a major award for the lead role in her New York stage debut, “Any Day Now.”
She returned to Los Angeles in 2012 to play Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing” at the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival and has been busy since.
“It feels great right now, but I also have learned that you need to be skilled. It has allowed me to be resilient,” Mirto told the newspaper.
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