On September 21, 2009, three days after her twenty-fifth birthday, Nina Arianda, like most ambitious actresses just out of drama school, was making the rounds in New York, looking for work. In a large shoulder bag, she carried her C.V., which listed her graduate-school roles: Gwendolen in “ . . . (Subscription required.)
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on October 31, 2011