That was such a pivotal moment, and turning point for me.” Prior to that, I had been working on sets with adults, where I was the only kid. That was my first time ever working with peers, kids my age. But I got it, and that was a whole new world. “I’m young, I’m probably 14 going on 15, just trying to enjoy my teenage years. “It was my birthday week and I remember being like, ‘Do I have to go?’” she said. Although that show filmed over 10 years ago, Hurd still remembers her “last-minute audition.”

But if you find that the 28-year-old actress looks familiar, it’s probably because you watched her on the seminal sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. Hurd, whose IMDb page is already fairly lengthy, had small roles in Barbershop, ER, and even as Justin Bieber‘s love interest in his “Never Let You Go,” music video. Penney print catalogues and mall runway shows.” “By the time I was five years old, I was in J.C. Patrick’s (Michael Rainey Jr.) at the prestigious, fictional Ivy League university Stansfield. She was in New York filming the new show Ghost, a spinoff of the hit Starz show Power, in which she plays Lauren, a classmate of Tariq St. “My mom was like, ‘Hmm, well, okay,’” Hurd said on a recent afternoon from her place in Brooklyn. They’d send free desserts and Shirley Temples to her table. She’d dance and sing and tell stories-and other diners started to take notice.

When she and her family went out to eat in her hometown of Dallas, Hurd would perform while they waited to be seated. The actress Paige Hurd’s first stages were restaurant foyers.

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