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Bonnie was raised by her mother, and her mother's large Irish Catholic family in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her mother is one of 9 children! Bonnie started acting and singing at a young age, appearing in all the high school plays at Poly Prep Country Day School in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. She attended Boston College as a Musical Theater major, and left to move back home to New York to try acting professionally. Bonnie sang in many bands in the NYC music scene, and had a development deal to sing her own music at 17 years old. She was noticed by a modeling scout while waiting tables in NYC, and did some modeling in New York, and Europe, only to return more focused on acting. She packed her bags and moved to Los Angeles at age 22, very quickly had a band and then an agent. One of her first auditions, after getting an agent, was for the lead role in CBS's mini-series, Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999), in which she also sang. She now lives in Los Angeles.

My Mom took me to see Annie on Broadway when I was little and I just wanted to be doing what those girls were doing. I was that annoying little girl who sang the (Annie) soundtrack all the time. My Mom would be like, &quot;please stop with the singing!&quot;. All I&#39;ve ever wanted was to do a musical.

[her view on <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt4452630/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Code Black (2015)</a>] I&#39;ve never seen anything like this on TV. You&#39;re seeing, what actually goes on. The accuracy and attention to detail...it&#39;s amazing.

[on the pressure of working in the background, on <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt4452630/?ref_=nmqu_qu">Code Black (2015)</a>] &quot;You never know when the cameras will be on you,&quot;

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