Hollywood, Here I Come! (Barefoot Broadcast with Johnnie Lyne-Pirkis, Franji Cassini & Carl Munson)

Johnnie Lyne-Pirkis is now living the dream after many years of trying. He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic, founded a successful theatre production company and ran a restaurant, but his real love has always been acting. Whatever he tried the juicy main roles eluded him – a fairly normal story for the majority of actors. Even his background didn’t help him on the fast track - He heralds from Irish aristocracy, is related to Gladys Cooper, mother of Robert Morley, grandmother to biographer and journalist, Sheridan Morley. Sir Peter Ustinov was his Hon Godfather. Two years ago Johnnie started to work with Darren Eden to master his intuition. He dedicated himself to using these intuitive tools to widen his acting horizons and within only a few months had landed himself one of the two leading roles in a play which won the Olivier Award for Best Play in 2010, which came to him after he had sacked his agent! If you know anything about acting you’ll know this is akin to a crime against yourself but Johnnie’s intuition had guided him and he followed that guidance. Johnnie says: "I have a three year US visa, I am moving to live in Los Angeles, I have a high profile US management, and am recognised by top management over here in the UK, I have two feature movies in which I have featured roles, the first filming in Dec this year, I am starring in a play in Edinburgh and London next year, I have started writing again. I am doing what I love. I have created all of this by focussing on what I love". Johnnie is a walking example that you can create a life you love and you certainly don’t have to follow what appear like logical steps.