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TheyвЂ™ve trained themselves and their kids not to see the people living on the streets. 'The moment you look somebody in the eye who normally gets ignored, youвЂ™ve made a friend,' says actor Eliza Jane Schneider of her reason for focusing on the stories of people living on the streets in her show 'Displaced.' 'Because thereвЂ™re so many people who just walk right by. Over the years she added more dialects - Navajo, New Orleans, the Pacific Northwest - and eventually turned them into the award-winning show 'Freedom of Speech,' where she channeled 34 of the most memorable individuals she met in her travels. That first trip she logged 17,000 miles before having to return to L.A. Schneider bought an ambulance from the Los Angeles classified section, since it had AC plugs for her recorder, and set off across America. I figured it would take me about a month - and I've been doing it for 25 years.' 'The idea is, I would go and collect all of the dialects of spoken English of the entire world, starting with America. 'There was no existing dialect material for actors other than a guy David Alan Stern imitating people,' she said. But like many of her Generation X peers, she found herself wanting more direct and authentic connections to people. 'I am a Suzuki-trained violinist since age 7,' she said, 'and that is an ear training method, so my brain started applying that to languages - everything sound - so that anything I hear I like to mimic.'ДЄspiring to be an actor, she got a full-time role in the children's show 'Beakman's World' in the early 1990s. Schneider traces her knack for dialects to her early years, growing up on a Chippewa reservation with a German theater teacher for a father, a Jewish lawyer for a mother, and an adopted Vietnamese brother.

She teaches dialects worldwide, and performs award-winning plays and one-woman shows, the newest of which, ' Displaced,' premieres Jan.

#Eliza schneider images series#

SheвЂ™s created characters for everything from the animated film вЂњFinding NemoвЂќ to the TV series вЂњKing of the HillвЂќ to video game franchises like вЂњAssassinвЂ™s CreedвЂќ and 'Pirates of the Caribbean' (thus, the Keira Knightley). For five years, she played most of the female characters on 'South Park': Wendy, Shelly, Mrs. In a way you are: Schneider has traveled the globe in her quest to record English in all of its myriad forms. She slides so easily between Southern Pentecostal, Nigerian street slang, Liverpudlian, and Keira KnightleyвЂ“British (OK, just Keira Knightley). To have a conversation with actor Eliza Jane Schneider is to feel like you're talking with half of the English-speaking world. In addition to voicing most of the female characters on 'South Park,' Eliza Jane Schneider has created characters for everything from the animated film вЂњFinding NemoвЂќ to the TV series вЂњKing of the HillвЂќ to video games like вЂњAssassinвЂ™s Creed.вЂќ