PHILADELPHIA — Lisa Ann Walter now stars in a hit television show, and she’s appeared in a number of popular films over the last few decades. But, the actor recalled Thursday at a rally in Center City Philadelphia, raising her four children in Los Angeles earlier in her career meant shopping the day-old bread rack at the bakery and the dollar store for birthday party supplies.
“When the world sees people on television and movies, they figure they’ve got it made; they’re all millionaires; they have several yachts,” Walter said. “As the years have gone on, the business has paid those of us who are not the $20 million actors less and less and less until it is just about basic wage.”
At this point her career, Walter can negotiate a fair contract for herself, she noted while standing next to her "Abbott Elementary" co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph. But she and Ralph are on strike in support of the many working actors in their union who struggle to make ends meet, they both said.
