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Cameron Monaghan Biography

Cameron Monaghan

Cameron Riley Monaghan (born August 16, 1993) is an American actor and model. Beginning with his professional career as a child model at the age of three, and child actor at the age of seven, Monaghan is best known for his role as Ian Gallagher on the Showtime comedy-drama series Shameless. He has also appeared as Jerome Valeska and Jeremiah Valeska in the Fox crime series Gotham.

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Don't get me wrong, Carter Smith is an insanely talented photographer, but as a director he approached it more from a story standpoint. He definitely had an interest in communicating the text and the characters first, and he allowed his cinematographer Darren Lew to really find the visuals - of course, he worked with him throughout the entire Jamie Marks Is Dead movie, it was a collaborative effort. While the movie is very visually beautiful, in my opinion, very visually striking, Carter was definitely approaching it from a performance standpoint first.

Beautiful, Character, Course, Director, Effort, Throughout

I love to write, so I think writing would be the next natural step. And if I'm making something that I'm writing, it would also probably make sense to be a producer and have some creative input from that perspective as well. Eventually, I do want to direct, but I want to get comfortable in those two jobs first. I want to dip my foot into this pool before I dive in I guess.

Creative, Eventually, Making, Perspective, Thinking, Writing

One of my favorite movies of all time is Fargo.

Fargo, Favorite, Movies, My Favorite, Sports Movie, Time

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

Enough, Guitar, Play, Sing, Tune, Tunes

TV is longer form, and that's sometimes a positive, and sometimes a more challenging thing. As an actor, you want to be able to have your character develop or transform in some way. When you're acting on a show over the course of multiple seasons, you get to watch a character really grow and change, and go from one place to an entirely other place.

Acting, Challenges, Challenging, Character, Course, Place

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

Acrobatics, Art, Friday, Guitar, Snowboard

I was a pretty hyperactive kid, kind of ADD. I couldn't really stay sitting in my chair, so my kindergarten teacher would have me standing at the back of the room, because I couldn't sit for more than five minutes. My mom needed some positive way to focus my energy and I said I wanted to be an actor, so she was like, "Well, we'll roll with it and see how you respond to it," and I loved it. It was something I could instantly focus my attention to.

Hyperactive, Kid, Kids, Mom, Pretty, Teacher

There were obvious budgetary and time constraint differences. With Jamie Marks is Dead, we were operating on a pretty small finance level. So it was definitely run-and-gun, 16-hour days, every day. I would come back, and I was so exhausted I would fall asleep in my clothes. Obviously, with The Giver we had a little bit more time to take the full three months. So that was different, but in both there was still a creative environment, and by that I mean that it was still collaborative, performance was still valued, and it wasn't lost in the money.

Asleep, Creative, Fall, Mean, Small

Large-budget movies start to lose focus on the story and the actors, and it becomes purely about the visual, or CGI, or framing with the cranes, or whatever it may be.

Focus, Framing, Movie Star, Movies, Story

You put so much of yourself out there as an actor. You show the many facets of who you are when you're performing - or who you could be - you show yourself angry, upset, sad, vulnerable. The one thing I keep as my own private secret is the music.

Facets, Sad, Secret, Show, Upset, Vulnerable

I come from a creative background, and everything I enjoy is entertaining or playing music for people, which is the exact thing the Community restricts and opposes. At least still playing games with the kids and being active, not completely awful.

Come, Completely, Creative, Kids, People, Thing

I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

Community, Gay, Like, Thinking

Sometimes people tell me I'm a good guy. Thank God, I'd probably be a terrible woman

Good, Guy, People, Terrible, Thank God

I had never really heard of Meryl Streep before. Someone told me she was an actress and she'd been in a few things, but I said, you know, whatever. She showed up and she seemed somewhat inexperienced, so I gave her a few pointers, and I think she has a decent career ahead of her. It's always hard to tell these things in Hollywood, but I do think that she has some talent under there. I think she's a diamond in the rough.

Diamond, Meryl, Somewhat, Talent, Thinking, Under

I dont like quotes. You can quote me on that.

Like, Quote, Quotes

With every character you play you're always trying to put facets of yourself into those characters. I think Asher, at the beginning of The Giver, when he's goofy and a little bit of a rule-breaker, a little bit of a jokester, I align with him. But then he kind of transforms throughout the movie and becomes someone I don't necessarily relate to. I relate to Adam McCormick's sensitivity. He's more quiet and introverted, and I definitely have those moments as well.

Character, Definitely, Moments, Movie, Thinking, Trying

Prom is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

Focuses, Leading, Prom, Social Pressure, Struggle

I traveled to Berlin promoting something a few years back, and Berlin is absolutely my favorite city I've ever been to. I want desperately to film something there.

Back, Berlin, Film, My Favorite, Traveled

I seek a diverse spectrum of roles. If I just was in a large-budget feature for a younger audience, then I want to find a smaller, more character-driven piece that might be for a more mature audience. Or if I'm playing a goofier character, then maybe I want to go play a serious, psychopathic character. But at the same time, it's usually a case-by-case basis where I'm judging the merit of a role by the script I'm given, and it usually has less to do with the larger framework and more to do with how the part personally appeals to me in that moment.

Character, Framework, Judging, Larger, Part, Serious

You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.

Assuming, Gay, Men, Personality