Everything to know about Dolly Lewis, Star Of Sight Unseen and jazz singer

Dolly Lewis stars in the CW crime drama sight unseen As former detective, Tess Avery, and while this may be the first time most viewers have seen the actress in action, there's a chance they may have heard of her before. Born on July 12, 1986, Lewis began her professional acting career in 2018, appearing in the short, Vanishing point Like Carlotta the artist. This role was followed by a series of several more short films before she got her first TV part, a one-episode role in dead of winter Like Patricia.

Lois, like her character in sight unseenHas a visual impairmentOnly Lewis' started around age 5 or 6. (by NYPost). Lewis' retinas are detaching and could possibly detach completely, an event that would require emergency surgery or leave her completely blind. The visual impairment hasn't stopped Lewis from entering a visual medium like acting, and she's made a career out of doing voiceovers for audiobooks and appearing in narrative podcasts like I think you're projecting. sight unseen Marks her first major onscreen performance.

Dolly Lewis stars as Tess Avery in Sight Unseen

Tess Avery is a sight divergent police detective

sight unseen Follows former homicide detective Tess Avery (Lewis) who suddenly begins to lose her vision and is forced to leave the department. Still wanting to help and solve cases, Tess becomes a private eye with the help of Sunny Patel (Agam Darshi), who uses a visual aid app on Tess' person to help her navigate. The show premiered in April 2023 and the show has been renewed for a second season (by TVLine). As the main character, Dolly Lewis' performance makes the show.

Lewis competed against hundreds of other actors with divergent vision From Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia to earn the role (by CW). In order to inhabit the role of Tess, whose fictional vision loss is much more dramatic than Lewis', Lewis chose not to wear corrective glasses on set, although the crew was kind enough to make her transition from glasses to no glasses a A little easier. ,

On the set, I benefited a lot from the wonderful crew putting up neon tape all over the place to give me symbols like, 'This is the bathroom, this is the exit', and they printed signs in extra-large fonts.

It's a well-rounded performance from Lewis, who can handle the comedy and drama with equal skill.

Lewis is an accomplished vocalist

Dolly Lewis has performed on audiobooks and she sings jazz

Along with her burgeoning acting career, Dolly Lewis has already proven herself a talented vocalist. There are the aforementioned voice performances in podcasts and audiobooks, which can be found on her website, Dolly LewisBut she is also an excellent jazz singer. Her resume states that she can play as a soprano D3-D6, and do opera, jazz and musical theater. Lewis can also play advanced piano and has some knowledge of the accordion. Whether Lewis will completely turn from music to acting remains to be seen.

Dolly Lewis' upcoming projects

Lewis will co-star in The Obelisk

Dolly Lewis has two upcoming projects along sight unseen Season 2. One is a short, The ScorpionWhere she is set to play Jenna Carter and the others will be Lewis' first movie role. The obelisk is an upcoming mystery thriller about a drifter, David (Alexey Hartlieb-Shea), who is struggling to survive in a dystopian future in America. There he meets Elizabeth Benning, played by Lewis, a marketing exec, who discovers that her employer may have contaminated the last remaining water supply. Filming has ended on The obeliskBut a release date is yet to be announced.