“I told myself I would try to broaden my horizons and join new extracurriculars, but I was at auditions the very first week of school,” she confesses. “If you go to a conservatory,” she explains, “you’re pretty much guaranteed an agent after you perform in your senior showcase.” Harvard offered no such certainties to the aspiring actress.įortunately for Horvath, she quickly found a home in the world of Harvard drama. But when she got in, she couldn’t pass up the opportunity. “I basically applied to Harvard as a joke,” she laughs.
In high school, Horvath fully intended to enter an acting conservatory after graduation.
Years of art school followed, including two at prestigious arts boarding school Interlochen Academy. Ever since playing a tulip in that very first show, Horvath was hooked. It’s rare to find a preschooler who consumes the news at breakfast, but even rarer to find one so passionate about acting. Horvath’s career began at the age of five when she spotted an advertisement for auditions at a local theater while reading the newspaper. Her first on-screen acting experience involved silently eating six cupcakes in front of a rolling camera. Whenever a part is too close to my life, I’m like, what’s the point?” she says. For Horvath, who spent the better part of her summer filming a hush-hush new movie in Los Angeles, the crazy roles are definitely her favorites. Horvath ’16 confesses, smiling mischievously. “I’m often typecast as the weirdo,” Ema H.
