Tony Nominee Geneva Carr on Tempting Teen Boys in Hand to God & Trading Wall Street for Broadway

Age: 44

Hometown: Jackson, MS

Current Role: A Tony-nominated Broadway debut as Margery, a barely-keeping-it-together widowed mother whose son's sock puppet might be possessed by the devil in Robert Askins' Hand to God.

Stage & Screen Cred: Carr has starred in Hand to God since the play's first reading. She's appeared off-Broadway in Rose's Dilemma and The Vagina Monolgues and on screen in Love and Other Drugs, It's Complicated, Younger and The Leftovers.

"The Tony nomination is crazy! Talk about an underdog. The night before, I said to my husband, ‘These are gossip columns and wish lists. It’s not going to happen. Let’s go to bed. The dream is over.’ The next morning, we were watching and screaming!"

"I’ve lived in 11 states, but I’m not an Army brat. My father couldn’t hold a job, so every six months, we’d move. I’m sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa. So, I kind of sound Midwestern, but if I have a drink I sound southern."

"My husband and I met on OKCupid. We went out on our little coffee date and I knew right away he was my husband. He’s a handsome, smarty-pants architect from Tokyo. On our first date, I said, ‘I wake up like this. I’m Pollyanna Sunshine and I’m not for everyone.’"

"I don’t come from an artistic family, so I didn’t know what theater was. I was working on Wall Street in the '90s, and I went to see Appointment With a High-Wire Lady at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and it affected me so deeply. It changed everything I thought about the arts. I quit banking and became an actor."

"The best thing about being the ‘Rollover Mom’ from the AT&T commercials is that no one recognizes me! I’ve been in a hundred commercials and no one ever recognizes me. Listen, I live in the apartment that AT&T built—let’s not lie."

"I’ve had more sex with underage boys on stage and film in the last five years than most women do in a lifetime [laughs]. Rob [Askins] has let me run in this role and he’s written every secret fantasy I have. I get to be angry and speak my mind and go all out. Luckily, our teen is played by a 30-year-old."