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There’s No Place Like Home For Sarah Wayne Callies
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and become a professor. But it really wasn’t until my se- nior year in college that I re- alized I was going to be really sad without the arts in my life.
“So, I made an agreement with myself that I would try to fail at the arts, and then I could be happy settling for something else. But I had to try first; I had to say I swung and I missed, and now I’m ready to go and be a grown-up.”
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(Above) Whenever she’s in Hawai‘i, Sarah Wayne Callies is sure to be found consuming malasadas, Spam musubi or anything cool from Aoki’s Shave Ice in Hale‘iwa. (Inset) The actress — shown here soaking up the sun at a local beach — usually splits her time between O‘ahu, where her mother lives, and the Big Island during her visits to the 50th state. PHOTOS COURTESY SARAH WAYNE CALLIES
with her husband, Josh Win- terhalt, and their two chil- dren, Callies confesses to missing the islands terribly. Thankfully, she hasn’t lost her pidgin accent — “Eh, Russell! You get pen?” she cracks while reminiscing about growing up in the era of comedians Rap Reiplinger and Frank De Lima — nei- ther has she forgotten how Hawai‘i was the fertile ground upon which she grew her talents in the performing arts (even though she didn’t
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her parents split up, Callies — who first lived in Mānoa, and later in Kāhala — moved into an apartment in Makiki with her mother, who still re- sides there till this day.
seriously consider becoming a professional actor until she was at Dartmouth College).
“Every day I get to say I’m a working artist is a good day,” says the extremely con- tent Callies. “It’s more than I ever thought. I got a great life and it’s not real complicated. You do something you love. You have good kids. Your spouse is your best friend. You live in a beautiful place.
“In some ways, I feel like Hawai‘i was like my third parent,” says the actor, who graduated from Punahou School in 1995. “I mean I got to grow up in a place with malasadas and Spam musubi. That in and of itself is a win.”
“I definitely started acting in junior high and then took it a little bit more seriously when I got to high school, but it didn’t seem practical as a way to make a living,” says Callies, whose first pro- fessional starring role came in 2003 as Det. Jane Porter on The WB series Tarzan.
“If there’s something more than that out there, I don’t re- ally care.”
Although she still makes frequent visits to Hawai‘i
“Initially, I sort of thought that I would follow in my mom’s footsteps, get a Ph.D.
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