Inspirational Women In Hollywood: How Westworld’s Emily Somers Is Helping To Shake Up The Entertainment Industry

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine
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10 min readAug 17, 2022

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Photo Credit: Emily Sandifer

Have a full life — do not spend all your time in drama classes, only hanging out with fellow actors. Travel, meet people outside the industry, try a new hobby…it will make you so much more interesting! This has helped me more than anything. My best bookings have come at times where I’ve forgotten about the audition and have moved my focus elsewhere.

As a part of our series about Inspirational Women In Hollywood, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Emily Somers

Emily Somers is an LA based actress and writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied at A.C.T. in San Francisco and the British American Drama Academy in Oxford to supplement her training at the University of California, Davis.

This summer Emily will appear as a Recurring Guest Star on Season 4 of HBO’s Westworld. Additional acting credits include starring opposite Jean Smart as Beth in Awaken the Shadowman, Dawn in Gabriele Muccino’s film Playing for Keeps, and Stat in the popular indie

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Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator