Meet Leela Owen | Actress & Model

We had the good fortune of connecting with Leela Owen and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Leela, what do you want people to remember about you?
I want the biggest legacy of mine aside from the projects I do with being an actress, to be the way I made people individually feel when meeting them. The word I want people to take from meeting me is that they felt understood. One of the most beautiful things to me about this life and world is the humans in it. I think humans including myself are weirdly cute. I LOVE meeting people and getting to experience their own individual intricate ways of their brain. Everyone’s mind is so different and beautiful and I want to be a person that when people meet me they feel like I understand that and I understood them and their own unique mind to the best that I could even if I only got to be with them a short time. I want people to have felt like they could express their pure authenticity around me and I loved them for every part of it.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
I am an actress and model. I started at 15 years old and am now about to turn 20 on June 30th. Since starting, the projects I am the most excited that I got the honor to do was play the recurring role of Miranda/Kay Challis in DC Comics Doom Patrol, play the guest star role of Harper in Disney+’s Just Beyond, play the lead “Abby” in the film “It’s Christmas Again”, play the co star role of Annalise in Back in Action (set for Netflix in 2024), being the face of Twyneo, and getting to be a lead in 8 MattyBraps music videos. I booked all of them from my absolutely beloved Agency called Houghton Talent in Atlanta where I currently live and it was not easy. Like anything in the entertainment industry, acting and modeling is very competitive and very easy to get knocked down. Staying consistent with auditions and continuing to keep trying when it seems like nothing is being booked, is the most important thing to set yourself aside from the rest. At the point where others would give up, you keep going. My biggest lesson I have learned along the way is go for everything fully. When your in an audition room or on a zoom, don’t hold back anything. The nerves are hard to get over but the confidence will show through and confidence can do more then you know. I would like the world to know that this is just the start for me and I am determined to put in the work I need to!

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
If a friend was visiting Atlanta I would take them to Ponce City Market! It is a beautiful area with great food, stores, entertainment, and fun and creative people!

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
I owe the entirety of my success so far to many people. Firstly, I owe it to God. He has blessed me so very much in this life and given me the tools I needed to start my career in acting. Secondly, and very importantly, is my sister. She has been by my side through everything in my life and been the one person I have always had physically in my corner who has kept me going to the point I am at now. Equally as important would also be my mom. She used to drive me to every set I would work on and has filmed almost every audition for me I have ever done. Now that I have moved off, she has drove to my apartment for me at 1am before just to film an audition for me that she thought I would get. She is my biggest cheerleader in my career and does absolutely anything she can to help me. She is more proud of me then ANYONE even on my small wins in my career and I genuinely couldn’t do it without her. I would also like to thank Sandra Martin and Issac Alongi from Mapelle Productions. They casted me in my first ever lead in a film called “It’s Christmas Again” after a time I was in a slump with acting and close to giving up. I had just gotten to a screen test, chemistry read, and was told it was down to me and one other girl for a show called Shelter on Amazon Prime. It was a lead role, and when I didn’t end up being the one to book it was distraught. All of my hope had been shot down. Sandra and Issac casted me about a month later and trusted me with the role. It single handedly brought me out of the slump and brought my love for acting back x10. Over the 3 month course of filming, I had the best time of my life. While it was a lot of work and lines being a lead, I learned that I was fully capable and more then that, enjoyed every second of it. They taught me so so much and continue to teach me so much as I am currently working on another project with them. They are some of my biggest mentors and are such a light in this industry that I look up to and will always look up to. They inspire me and teach me. All of these people I named do and I couldn’t do anything I get to do without them.

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