We were lucky to catch up with Hilda Boulware recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Hilda, thanks for joining us today. Let’s talk legacy – what sort of legacy do you hope to build?

My hope in legacy is that I was not afraid to master, more than one skill, adventure or career path. It might be remembered that I pursued my love of Acting, and never abandoned the joy that pursuit brought.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am a creative, working both as an actor and writer to bring entertainment and enjoyment through television and film with a history in theater. I also work as a children’s social worker, providing genuine care in the professional world of advocating safety of children.

While I have loved Acting from a young child, participating in programs plays, and anything with performing arts, I began as a premed student in college. I later changed my Major from pre med to speech communication/theater with a focus in oral interpretation.
My social work developed after obtaining a Masters degree in spiritual psychology from the university of Santa Monica. This is where I began a dual intentioned project in professional tv acting as well as in counseling others. That focus and intention led to a successful television career as well as a professional social worker career.
One of the things that sets me apart is my willingness to devote myself wholly to two careers. I balance, my creative side with a very serious service that is far from Acting. Some of the hardships of professional social work are balanced through my creative outlet in television film Acting and writing.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

After many decades of pursuing Acting, and holding down various jobs to sustain my family as a single parent, I decided to give up on Acting. This was about 15 years ago.

I began my professional acting as a teenager in Atlanta, Georgia through Clark college in a play that led to working in regional theater at the alliance. The place starred Sam Jackson and his wife Latonya Richardson so I had some pretty expert talent for my mentoring.
For decades, I struggled as a determined and devoted but unsteady actor who could not survive on acting alone. During that time I maintained various jobs at American Airlines, the post office, international creative management, and many other venues.

So much persistence, much dedication, yet I felt i was riding a horse that would not move. I decided to dismount. It couldn’t have been more than a few weeks to a month before I received a call from an agent out of the clear blue sky, asking if I wanted representation for television. I thought it was a gimmick for money, but decided to interview just out of curiosity. The agent was Myreon Arslan, who believed in me and has invested in my career for about 15 years. My career began to blossom in television, and Myreon and I have not looked back. I’ve also written and self published a book called water, my soul found on Amazon.
I continue in development as a writer for television along with my daughter Wynter Williams who is a writing business partner and my son Parys McNair who does great camera work with me in my auditions.

Resiliency through persistence has paid off. I hung in for many decades before briefly, giving up, which was the surrender that prompted my success. I think when we focus too hard on a particular idea of success, we must remember there is a certain surrender in it all that will keep us from going against the prick repelling the very thing we want, in working against the law of attraction.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: hildaboulware27
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• Linkedin: Hildaboulware
• Twitter: @BoulwareHilda
• Other: IMDB Hilda Boulware

Image Credits
Greys Anatomy SBTB. Atypical. Modern Family Book Water My Soul and DCFS