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Danger Bay actress:
just a hometown girl

FOR NORTH Vancouver actress Sharon Biro, working on
an episode of the television series Danger Bay can be
described in two words: a change.

“The role {| was playing was a
girl of about 13 or 14 years old,"’
Biro recalls of her recent part in
the locally filmed Walt Disney
series.

“That's a drastic change,"’ the
16-year-old Biro laughs. ‘Usually
I’m trying to look older instead of
younger.’’

In the episode, titled All the
King’s Horses, the Carson Graham
student plays a character who is
‘basically a country girl.”

SMALL SCREEN DRAMA

In the show, conflict arises when
the girl's father pressures her to
win a horse jumping champion-
ship. ‘‘He’s a very domineering
person,’’ she says of her charac-
ter’s father, played by Patrick
Wayne.

“He basically says you're no
good unless you win,’’ she
describes of the father’s attitude.

But although Wayne may be in-
tense on camera, off camera, she
says, he is completely different.
“He said I looked like his own
daughter,’’ she remembers.

Giggling, she recalls, ‘‘I said
‘Since you’re so good looking, I'll
take that as a compliment.’”’

Since Danger Bay wrapped up
filming Sept. 2, the brown-haired
Biro has been waiting to be called
for some more auditions. ‘‘] just
sit and wait for the auditions but I
do things that will help me get
parts.

“I read lines; I've taken drama;
I’ve taken workshops — things like
that,’”’ she explains.

While she won’t say how much
money she has earned from her
work, Biro does !et slip that she

plans to buy a car soon. ‘*But not
a new car,’ she hastens to add. ‘'1
don’t have qiite that much.”’

She says she has no boyfriend:
“1 wish,’’ she laments. ‘But there
is somebody in the past, the very
recent past.””

PAINLESS EDUCATION

When she finishes high school,
sh: plans to go to the University of
B.C. to Become an
anaesthesiologist. ‘‘Just don’t ask
me how to spell it,’’ she laughs.

But what if a really big acting
part turns up? She says her studies
won't take a back seat to acting,
but school might have to be
postponed for a while. ‘If some-
thing big comes up... well hey,’’
she says.

Ever since she was 12 years old,
Biro has wanted to appear on the
daytime soap opera The Young
and the Restless. ‘1 watch it every
day,’’ she says, as if she expects
disbelief.

If she cannot watch it in person,
a video recorder captures every
episode for later viewing. ‘‘Some-
times I watch a whole week (of the
show) on the weekend."’

For Biro, acting often turns out
to be a family affair. Her mother
and 13-year-old sister get in on the
action. ‘‘We do it all together,’’
she says.

“My mom tries (for parts) 1oo,””
explains Biro. ‘‘She's been to quite
a few auditions and does quite a
lot of bit parts.”

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NEWS photo Nell Lucente

SEX TEEN-YEAR-OLD Carson Graham student Sharon Biro lounges poolside with a script of Danger Bay —a

television series she is presently playing in.

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