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Friday, 29 May 2009

Katie O'Grady in Management in Theaters now!



Catch IMTA alum Katy O'Grady in theaters this weekend in the humorous romantic comedy Management. The film stars Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and is directed by Stephen Belber. Katy plays the part of the Corporate Bliss Receptionist in this film about a traveling art sales woman and a goofy but sweet hotel clerk who falls for her.


Katie competed at IMTA in 2005 where she won Talent of the Year. Talent of the Year is awarded to the actor who has the highest composite score from five of the IMTA acting Competitions including Monologue, Soaps, Sitcoms, TV Real People Commercial and Cold Read. Katie also won a scholarship when she competed at IMTA. Katie was recently in the film Untraceable and has appeared in the independent film Some Will Fall and Sasquatch Dumpling Gang which starred another IMTA alum Jeremy Sumpter!

Thursday, 28 May 2009

Ashton Kutcher and Susan Boyle!

IMTA alum Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore are scheduled to appear as guests to cheer on and support the wildly popular aspiring singer Susan Boyle! They have been invited by the judges Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden to the Grande Finale of Britain's Got Talent! Ashton was instrumental in getting American exposure to now front-runner Susan Boyle's performance by tweeting to his one million twitter followers about her last month! He linked to her moving performance and the boost helped catapult her into the limelight in America. You can see his twitter post from April 11th right here on THAT IMTA BLOG!


Ashton competed at IMTA at the New York, 1997 Convention Ashton won Most Sought After Male Model, signed with Next Models and went straight to the designer runways for Men's Fashion Week ! He was soon cast on That 70's Show as the lovable Kelso! He started producing shows, such as Punk'd, Beauty and the Geek and Miss Guided. His movie roles include The Guardian, Dude, Where's My Car? which also stars fellow IMTA alum Seann William Scott, The Butterfly Effect, A Lot Like Love, Guess Who and What Happens in Vegas. Ashton is the spokesman for Nikon in a huge international advertising campaign! He was also the first person in the world to have a million followers on Twitter, the social phenomenon and micro-blogging site.

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Premiere of Jill Wagner's Wipeout!



Be sure to tune into ABC tonight for the premiere of IMTA alum Jill Wagner's second season of the hilarious show Wipeout! The show will be the same format as the first season with each episode starting with 24 contestants navigating their way through various obstacles designed to knock them out of the competition. There are four rounds of eliminations, and the last remaining contestant wins a $50,000 prize.

Jill competed at IMTA in Los Angeles in 2001 where she won Female Model of the Year! Many people know Jill as the Lincoln Mercury car girl as she has done many ad campaigns for the auto giant! She also starred in Blade: The Series which was about the adventures of a half-human half-vampire and was based on a Marvel comic book and movie of the same name. She played an operative on fellow IMTA alum Ashton Kutcher's hilarious show Punk'd and while on the show she punk'd Katie Holmes, yet another IMTA alum! Her television roles include Bones, Monk, Dr. Vegas, starring as Larrin in Stargate Atlantis, Blade: The Series, and she starred in the independent films Junebug and Shifted.


Catch Jill tonight in the summer smash hit premiere!