Aleksa Palladino

When Aleksa Palladino arrives on the set of our photoshoot in Brooklyn, New York, her disarming charm is intoxicating. There’s an easygoing spirit and quiet confidence about the emerging 31-year-old actress who speaks softly and seems to lack the domineering ego that one might assume pervades most actor archetypes. Her smile, when it flashes, is…

Gillian Zinser

Institute: Do you remember the first time you realised you wanted to become an actress? Gillian: My mum took me to see ‘The Fantastiks’ off broadway when I was a kid and the opening scene was a girl my age praying at the foot of her bed pleading “Please God, PLEASE! Please don’t let me…