Tamara Jolaine

Tamara Jolaine began her acting career in Canada At age 18 around the time of her completion of her Political Science degree at the University of Toronto she cast aside her plans to attend law school and began an artistic journey revolving around both acting and music In Toronto Tamara worked on many film and commercial projects The feature independent film Tough Love directed by Frank Caruso was her first official starring role and aided in her decision to take acting further and move to study in New York Jolaine studied at Circle in the Square Theater School and it was there in Times Square where she really began to hone her skills Following the completion of her training Tamara set her sights on the theater starring in many offBroadway shows including the hit show  Line written by Israel Horowitz She also got her feet wet in a musical titled Lets Be Frank playing both Lauren Bacall and Shirley Maclain which received widespread accolades from audiences all over Manhattan By the time she left New York Tamara had starred in more than seven offBroadway plays It was in Austin where Tamara found her ultimate acting mentor David A Cox David studied for many years under the great Sanford Meisner and today he personally embodies the mans teaching spirit and methods Under Coxs tutelage Tamara continued to develop her craft which eventually aided in her securing a recurring role on NBCs  Friday Night Lights as Erin the freespirited waitress who finds herself in a life altering circumstance In the second season finale her character Erin reveals to former star quarterback Jason Streets that she is pregnant with his child