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Maile School Acting Graduate Aubrey Peeples on ABC’s Nashville

Aubrey Peeples on ABC’s Nashville

Maile School acting graduate and performing troop member Aubrey Peeples landed a recurring role on ABC’s hit show Nashville playing the role of Layla. Nashville’s 2nd season premiered September 25th and Aubrey’s first episode titled “Never No More” will air on Wednesday, October 2nd at 10pm.
Aubrey also recorded a song as Nashville’s Layla Grant which is now available on iTunes! Click below to find her song on iTunes.

GONNA GET EVEN (Feat Aubrey Peeples)

More on Aubrey

Aubrey has had much success in the business. She also will play Nicolas Cage’s daughter in the film Tokarev and appear in Star-Crossed, a CW series. You may remember Aubrey was in the smash movie Sharknado, as Claudia the daughter of Tara Reid and Ian Ziering.

In 2007, she turned to film and had her first role in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr. In high school she started making short trips to Los Angeles each year to break into that market as well as continuing to work in the Southeast, building her resume with several guest-starring and co-starring roles in Drop Dead Diva, Charlie’s Angels, Burn Notice, Austin & Ally, and a recurring role on Necessary Roughness as well as several commercials.

Check out Aubrey in the preview for Nashville’s “Never No More”

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Maile School Acting Graduate Vincent Martella Lands Role on The Walking Dead

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Vincent Martella Walks onto The Walking Dead

Maile School acting graduate Vincent Martella joins the cast of the AMC hit The Walking Dead. (Season 4, which will begin airing this October) The Phineas and Ferb star will be playing a character named Patrick.

As quoted in Entertainment Weekly, Vincent says, “He’s right around Carl’s age but a little bit older. He’s one of the new people who Carl gets a little closer with. Carl hasn’t really had anybody his age, so now you kind of get to see Carl’s relationship with people his own age and that’s one of the things that Patrick is bringing to the show.” Patrick is one of the new characters brought into the Prison after the end of Season 3. It’s unclear if he is someone from Woodbury, or if he is brought in from an outside group of survivors”. Vincent also says, “I’ve been a big fan of The Walking Dead since day one”.

About Vincent

Vincent is from Deland and found success here in Central Florida at an early age singing and acting. He started his career here at The Maile School landing local commercials before moving to a bigger market. Some of his impressive credits include commercials for Pringles, Glad, Zaxbys and American Express. His feature films include Role Models starting Paul Rudd and Baitshop with Billy Ray Cyrus, television work for The Mentalist, and a starring role as Greg on the Chris Rock show Everybody Hates Chris. Martella is best is known as the voice of Phineas Flynn on Disney’s hit animated series Phineas and Ferb.

Tony Robinette Lands National Aflac Commercial

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AFLAC!!! with Tony Robinette!

Congrats to Maile School acting graduate Tony Robinette for booking a SAG National Commercial with Aflac. The commercial titled “Rehearsal” first aired on ABC during the college football game between University of Georgia and Clemson. In “Rehearsal”, the Duck is giving it his all but just can’t get the delivery right. Tony plays the speech coach for the iconic spokesduck.

Following its debut, “Rehearsal” has been airing on all major national networks, cable networks and local television stations across the country.

More from Tony

Tony has been performing professionally since he was 16 years old and has found much success in the entertainment industry. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2001. Tony is a graduate of The Maile School’s basic and advanced level courses. His credits include a guest role on the CBS popular series “How I Met Your Mother” and a role in the feature film “Spring Breakers”. Some of his other commercial booking credits include, Nokia, ESPN, Captain Morgan, HGTV, Hungry Howie’s Pizza, Florida Lottery, Brighthouse, Checkers, Holler Chevrolet, Heyneedle Furniture, Winn Dixie, Champs Sporting Goods, Disney. We are proud of Tony for all his hard work and look forward to seeing more success from him in the future!

Check out Tony in Aflac’s Commercial “Rehearsal”

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Aubrey “Storms” Sharknado

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Acting graduate and Performing Troop member Aubrey Peeples

She first fell in love with acting at the age of 3 as a captivated audience member watching her first play at The Civic Theatre. When she turned 5, she was in her first play and hasn’t stopped since. She grew up performing in both community and professional musicals, singing at several venues including the National anthem for the Orlando Magic, and was a proud Thespian member.

In 2007 she turned to film and had her first role in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr. In high school she started making short trips to Los Angeles each year to break into that market as well as continuing to work in the Southeast, building her resume with several guest-starring and co-starring roles in Drop Dead Diva, Charlie’s Angels, Burn Notice, Austin & Ally, and a recurring role on Necessary Roughness as well as several commercials.

After Graduation

After graduating high school as Valedictorian and getting accepted to universities such as Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, Northwestern and the University of Michigan, she decided to take a year off and move to LA to pursue her passion for acting. The universe blessed her with steady work with roles in Grey’s Anatomy, Lifetime movie The Good Mother, the CW pilot Star-Crossed, and the now cult hit Sharknado, in which she played Claudia, the daughter of Tara Reid and Ian Ziering. She recently filmed the movie Tokarev starring Nicolas Cage which will premiere in 2014.

In her down time, she became a tutor and volunteered weekly at a food bank. She also published her first article in TYA Today, and helped produce and starred in a short film A Conversation: Anne Frank Meets God. As her gap year in LA was coming to an end, she was packing up her apartment to head to college when she got the call she booked a large recurring role playing newcomer Layla Grant on ABC’s Nashville. Two days later, she was on a flight to Nashville to start shooting. She is thrilled to be involved with such a great group of people getting to both act and sing. Academics is still a high priority and Aubrey plans to accomplish those goals as well one day, but for now she is enjoying the ride! Way to go Aubrey!

Check out Aubrey in the Sharknado Trailer

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Graduate Arielle Kebbel stars in the Hallmark Channel Original Movie A Bride for Christmas

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Christmas came early for acting graduate Arielle Kebbel. She is staring in the Hallmark Channel Original Movie titled A Bride for Christmas which premieres on December 1st and runs throughout the holiday season. Arielle also had a supporting role in the feature film Think Like a Man staring Steve Harvey and Gabrielle Union.

Graduate Stefanie Scott voices “Moppet Girl” in Disney animated film Wreck-it-Ralph

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Acting graduate Stefanie Scott has been extremely busy lately. She voiced “Moppet Girl” in the big screen animated Disney film Wreck-It Ralph and she’s been preparing for her third season on Disney Channel’s hit show A.N.T. Farm playing the role of “Lexi Reed”. When interviewed by BOP and Tiger Beat magazine recently Stefanie said her favorite thing about doing voice over work is, “that you can act completely crazy. It doesn’t matter what you look like. You can go in your pajamas; it doesn’t matter because all they want is your voice.” The movie hit theaters November 2nd and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film

Justin Smith on VH1’s Single Ladies!

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Any VH1 Single Ladies’ fans out there? Be sure to watch acting graduate and former Maile School acting instructor Justin Smith! He landed the role of Artie. Justin moved to LA last year and keeps adding more credits to his already impressive resume. Justin has done work for ABC Family, Burn Notice, Army Wives, Vampire Diaries and Drop Dead Diva to name a few. Keep up the great work Justin you have lots of fans here in Orlando!!

Big News for Graduate Tony Robinette!

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Big news for acting and advanced acting graduate Tony Robinette!

He booked a role in the feature film Spring Breakers starring James Franco, Selena Gomez & Vanessa Hudgens. This film is a comedy about four college girls who rob a restaurant in order to get money for their trip to the beach for spring break. Spring Breakers will be in theaters in 2013.

Tony has been performing professionally since he was 16 years old. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2001. Tony has found much success in the entertainment industry. His recent commercial booking credits include, Nokia, ESPN, Captain Morgan, HGTV, Hungry Howie’s Pizza, Florida Lottery, Brighthouse, Checkers, Holler Chevrolet, Heyneedle Furniture, Winn Dixie, Champs Sporting Goods, Disney and many others.

He is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and is Screen Actors Guild eligible. He is represented in Central Florida, Miami, Los Angeles & North Carolina.

Tony says, “Orlando has been wonderful to me but I will be moving to Los Angeles this May and I am very excited about the jump.”

Congratulations Tony on your movie and good luck with your move to Los Angeles. All of your hard work has paid off. We will miss you and wish you a ton of success.

Graduate lands guest role on CBS’s drama “The Mentalist”

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Congratulations

More success for Maile acting graduate Vincent Martella who landed a guest role on CBS’s drama The Mentalist. Vincent, 19, plays Martin Klubock in the episode where Patrick Jane, played by Simon Baker, and his CBI colleagues investigate the killing of a popular English teacher.
The episode aired on April 5th and Vincent received rave reviews for his work on the show.

Vincent is best known for supplying the voice for Phineas on the Disney Channel’s popular animated series Phineas and Ferb. He was also a regular on the CW sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.

His other industry credits include Role Models, Armour hotdogs, Neds Declassified Survival Guide, Stacked and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.

Vincent started in the industry singing and dancing at the age of three. He continued into acting booking his first commercial at the age of seven before moving out to LA.

We are so proud of Vincent for all his success and we can’t wait to see more from this talented young actor!