Bree Walker - Acting

Acting

Walker has also dabbled in acting, appearing as herself in the end-of-the-world science-fiction thriller Without Warning (credited as Bree Walker-Lampley but referred to on screen as Bree Walker) and as television reporter Wendy Sorenson in The Chase. Walker also guest-starred on an episode of the PBS children's series, Reading Rainbow, to talk about her disability.

While watching the 2003 season of Carnivàle, an HBO television series about a Depression-era carnival traveling through the Dust Bowl, Walker noticed that no cast member had ectrodactyly. She requested, created, auditioned and won the role of Sabina, The Scorpion Lady. Walker's portrayal of Sabina appeared in three episodes during the 2005 season. She showcases her webbed hands as the series probes public attitudes toward persons with highly visible disabilities. Walker based Sabina on characters she knew existed in the 1920s and 1930s carnival sideshows with names like Lobster Girl or Lobster Boy. These were typically the best jobs people with ectrodactyly could have, with most others being hidden away.

Walker furthered her acting career in 2006 by appearing as an inspirational woman with ectrodactyly on the fourth season premiere of Nip/Tuck.

Bree Walker shares the on-camera narrator duties with Jon Elliott for the feature length documentary film, Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio which was first screened in April 2012. The film looks at the shrinking number of corporations who control the majority of what Americans watch and listen to on TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines. The film was over four years in the making and was produced by Jon Monday and Jennifer Douglas, distributed by mondayMEDIA. Walker is also in the film as expert, speaking at a media reform conference.