Renaissance Man
Actor Will Rothhaar on his career, latest project and helping others heal By Sara Edwards Actor Will Rothhaar grew up around the excitement of theater and acting. His father was a managing director who owned a small theater in South Central Pennsylvania and his mother was an actress. Rothhaar and his brother spent a good portion of their childhood hanging out backstage, and when they were old enough to roam the theater on their own, they would spend free time with actors during cigarette breaks and costume changes. “The one thing that was really great about having parents who were actors was wanting to get into it myself,” Rothhaar said. “My parents understood, they were never stage parents and didn’t push me to do anything I didn’t want to do.” Rothhaar began acting at the age of four and his first role was in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” a play directed by his father in 1991. The experience made him want to keep going and pursue an acting career. In the 1990s, Rothhaar and his family moved to Santa Monica to further their acting careers. While he continued to book auditions and land roles, his parents made sure that he still had a normal childhood by setting boundaries like not signing him up for recurring roles until he graduated from high school. They also regularly checked in...
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