Ricky Powell

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Photo by Craig Wolf

From the age of four, I had my mind set on being an actor. Although my mom had no idea how to go about pursuing this, I became friends with a boy who was already on a TV series at the time. His dad helped me get an agent, and I was lucky enough to enjoy a career that spanned about 12 years. I worked on several TV shows, commercials and had small parts in a couple of movies. I was privileged to have worked with such legends as Edward G Robinson, Bob Hope and Henry Fonda (although, he was horrible to me)… to Ron Howard and Tom Cruise. You can see a very small sample of my acting resume at IMDB.COM.


After it began to slow down for me in the acting department, I moved right into the working world after graduating from CSUN. I worked in Post Production at Witt/Thomas/Harris on great shows like, The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Blossom. I began viewing the shows at NBC each week to make sure all was well with our Network delivery. In 1992, I made the transition to NBC and have been there ever since. For the past 15 years, I have worked on essentially every show that airs on the Network. Last year, I was interviewed for NBC's intranet site. You can see that interview here if you are interested. One thing that contributes greatly to my happiness is my family. My wife and I are about to celebrate our 15th Wedding Anniversary and we have two wonderful kids that I adore.

(My wife and I celebrating her birthday in Italy)

Over, the past several years I have taken a much deeper interest in the subject of happiness. I truly believe the world would be a better place if there were more happy people in it. I think that if more of us took the time to learn the keys to happiness, we would begin to see many more positive things happen all around us.