HPD Perspectives Magazine Summer/Fall 2019

40 | DR. PALLAVI PATEL COLLEGE OF HEALTH CARE SCIENCES STUDENT PERSPECTIVE STUDENT Perspective Childhood Actress Pursues a Second-Act Career at NSU BY PATRICIA VARGAS, D.H.SC. , RVT Although Caitlin Hale’s career is in the health sciences now, what the NSU community might not know is that she is also a famous actress and singer who performed professionally until she was 14. And that life still intersects with her current one. From a young age, Hale was determined to succeed as an actress, despite the fact that no one in her family was involved in the film or music industry. After enduring countless auditions in New York City, she landed a part in the box office hit School of Rock in 2003, singing, dancing, and acting in the film as Marta. She was 11 years old. Four years later, she was cast in a minor role in the musical romantic drama Across the Universe . Hale appeared in several other theatrical produc- tions and TV roles. She worked as a guest star on the soap opera All My Children and played the main role of Jacinta in New York City’s Off-Broadway musical Fatima . She was a presenter for the 2014 San Diego Film Awards, the spokesperson for online Hyundai and Volvo vehicle advertisements, and the national anthem singer at University of Connecticut men’s and women’s basketball games. Many of her School of Rock castmates remain close friends, and Hale dates fellow actor, Angelo Massagli, who graduated from the University of From Stage to Sonography