Marilee Talkington

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2025

The Home as Gretchen / Faceless Woman

2023

Extrapolations as Janice

2020

FBI: Most Wanted as Fiona Paley

2019

See as Souter Bax
In the Dark as Kimmy
Batsh*t Bride as Theresa

2018

New Amsterdam as Maren Thompson

2003

NCIS as Annie Barth

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Golda Simon