Britton Webb, Actor

July 23, 2025

Britton Webb is an actor who has appeared in several feature films and TV series, including Mississippi-made projects like The Card Counter, Murder at Hollow Creek and History’s Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman. He also has a background as a script supervisor on films like Shark Lake, Speech & Debate and Strange Weather. He is a native of Brandon, where he currently resides and operates Webb Creative Studios, which offers classes and workshops for aspiring actors.

What’s your background, and what’s the path that led to you pursuing acting?

I was born and raised in Brandon, and in high school acting came across my mind several times. I’d be watching something silly like Saved by the Bell and think that it would be really cool to make a living doing that every day. But it was just one of those things that didn’t seem possible. I lived in Mississippi, for one. It would have been a little difficult to tell my parents, “All right, after high school, I’m moving out to L.A., I’m going to start acting.” (laughs)

But anyway, I played soccer growing up and ended up getting a scholarship to play at a really small school in Kentucky called Mid-Continent University. I’m sure most people have never heard of it. Actually, it doesn’t even exist anymore. When I came back home with my degree in business management, I started working as a real estate appraiser with my dad. That’s what we do down here in the South, you just kind of fall in with what your old man does, right?

But then the economy crashed in ‘08, and I realized I just wasn’t happy, man.  I probably would have been happy had I been a real estate agent or something where I got to communicate with people more often and work as a team. That’s what I was missing: that team atmosphere. I like being around people and working together to achieve a common goal. And to me, there’s no truer avenue for that than filmmaking. That’s what I love most about it.

So, after the economy crashed our whole client base got cut out from under us. I had kind of the same moment Jim Carrey talked about, his dad failed at doing something he didn’t enjoy, so why not fail at doing something you love? That’s kind of the mindset I was having at that time. I just watched my dad basically get his whole client base and business wiped out from under him. Even if it picks back up, that could happen to me 20 years from now.

I wanted to get into film, but I had no idea what to do. Looking back now, I wish I’d have jumped on some film sets and just worked my way up. But I had no clue. So I went and I got an education. (laughs) I went to Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, to learn about the other side of the camera. That school doesn’t exist anymore either, it merged with Belmont University in Nashville. But anyway, I learned a lot of good things, but like I said, it’s probably a lot that I could have just learned on set. I primarily learned a lot about screenwriting, which I’m still very interested in, and directing.

So I graduated from film school and moved out to LA immediately to pursue like the other side of the camera. But then I got my first opportunity to work on a feature film, which ended up being right back here in Mississippi on Battlecreek. It was directed by Allison Eastwood and produced by Connie Hoy, God rest her soul. She’s the first person that gave me an opportunity in the film industry. I got a call from them because they saw my name on the Mississippi Film Office website as a script supervisor.

Not long after that I was all ready to head back to LA and then I got the call that I was going to be a dad. So, I ended up driving all the way to back to LA, getting all my stuff, and moving back to Mississippi. And yeah, the rest is kind of history, as they say. About two years after having our son, Sol, and us both being in the film industry and trying to make things work, I just realized, man, there’s no way that I can keep working on this side of camera and spend the amount of time I want to be able to spend with my kid. So that’s when I got into acting. It was like, I’d been watching all these actors while I was script supervising on monitor and I was like, hell, I could do that. (laughs) So I reached out to Angie Moncrief who’s with Action Talent Agency, one of the best agents in the Southeast located right here in Flowood. And ever since then it’s been an up and down roller coaster ride, but it’s been a fun ride.

What are some of your current and recent projects, and do you have one you’re proudest of?

My proudest moment to date was actually Day of Reckoning, which I shot end of last year in Atlanta. It’s one of my proudest moments because I got to play a role that challenged me, that had multiple layers to it, a character that had a lot of depth. It was also an action western-type film, which is the type of movies that I love to be in. I got to work with Billy Zane who I am a huge fan of. He’s one of those actors that slips under the radar, when he should be up there at the top with the Leos and Brad Pitts. I mean, he’s a good-looking dude and an awesome actor, man. The director was from Nashville, so I just felt at home on set because there were lots of southern guys, they were just all my kind of people, you know? It was a very, all-around cool, awesome experience. They’ve turned this thing around quicker than I’ve ever seen, especially a movie of that quality and size. It came out in March. I got to take Sol out there to walk the red carpet. So that’s another reason that’s one of my favorites.

I’ve had several roles where I thought, oh, this is the one, I’m going to be set after this one. I’m going to start getting all kinds of offers. And then it just kind of goes back to normal. (laughs) I did Emancipation with Will Smith. I had roles in some TV series: Your Honor, Daisy Jones and the Six. I’ve been fortunate to do a lot of bigger projects with big name people. But I also like the smaller projects – I’ve done the lead in some romcoms and Lifetime movies – getting to carry a film like that is really where you get to hone your craft.

As far as things here in Mississippi, I recently acted in a 48 Hour Film Project with the guys from Natchez Film Company. They’re really nice people, and that was a cool project. I had told myself I wouldn’t do anything like that anymore! (laughs) But I had just done a Chevy commercial, so I was kind of set for a little while, had some eggs saved up, some money in the bank. So, I was like, why the hell not? I’m not doing anything else. But after about the first 24 hours, I was like, I’m too old for this!

Here in Jackson, I just made a film that they shot on Super 8 called Harmless. That was the last one I did. I got to play a pretty good role in it. I think I was #4 on it. I also was on Lazarus: The Awakening, one of producer Andrew Stevens’ projects—he’s been bringing a lot here. I’ve got friends in Atlanta that are actors that in this first quarter nothing was going on for them, you know. It truly has been a blessing this year to be living in the state of Mississippi because so many smaller projects have brought work here.  I also did one on the coast, a true-life story called Bruton. I just had a day player role in that, but I got to work with some other producers that have also brought several films here.

Has there been anyone in your career that’s been a mentor to you?

Well, first of all, I’m definitely going to say Billy Zane was really cool on set. I wasn’t sure he would be cool because of how big of a name he was. One night he took me and some other actors out to dinner and to a B-52s concert. It was a really cool experience getting to hang out with him.

There’s been a lot of local people that have helped me. Cotton Yancey and I have become really close friends, even though there’s a pretty big age gap there, but we’re kind of the same person. (laughs) I feel like I’m just a country boy, more of an old soul, so to speak. Cotton and I always read for each other, and I think that’s very important starting out in your career as an actor. You always want to have that person, and Cotton and I were that person for each other, which developed into a much bigger friendship than just helping each other out in auditions.

I’ve also got to thank Don Warren, he was so kind to me when I was coming up. This has nothing really to do with acting, just the production side of things. I can’t say enough good things about Don. He’s just a really good person. I was doing some video production work, and I had to teach myself editing. I learned some of it in film school, but not really how to edit well. And I can’t tell you how many hours he let me come over to his house and use his editing suite to cut commercials together. He deserves credit for a lot of stuff that’s grown up around here in the film industry, in my opinion. He’s a good dude.

You’re offering weekly acting classes and other workshops through your own business, Webb Creative Studios. What’s your vision for that?

When you’re a young actor, it’s really hard to start to build your reels and resume. A lot of times you’re doing work where you have to break even or sometimes you’re doing work for free to try to get reel footage. Bringing in people with names from outside the area is something I’ve tried to do to allow local talent and actors here in Mississippi to get the opportunity to take those classes, get that knowledge, but also put that on their resume, which is going to help them get more opportunities. You know, maybe your reel isn’t so great, but look at your education, you studied under these industry professionals. So yeah, we brought casting director Ryan Glorioso in June and we’re bringing in actor Jim Gleason this weekend, July 26-27. Jim was born in New Orleans, went to Tulane Theatrical School, went out to LA, studied under a lot of professionals out there, and then brought a lot of this knowledge back with him. He’s got one class called “The Works,” which teaches you all about becoming a working actor and what it takes before you even get to the audition process. You know, the work you need to put in breaking down the script, figuring out the timing, the pacing, all that kind of stuff, and many other things. That’s on Saturday. from 9 to 5. And then he’s got “The Circle Exercise,” which primarily teaches you just about being in the moment, improv type stuff, but it goes even further and beyond improv to the point of teaching you how to listen and pay attention to what the other actor is saying, which is so much what acting is in the first place. That’s on Sunday. Both classes are in Brandon on Old Fannin Road at Pro Select Roofing & Contracting – I’m so grateful to my friends Brent Clark and Will Pollard for letting us use that space for these bigger workshops.

I also do weekly classes. Every Tuesday is our adult class from 6 to 9 and every Friday we do a youth class from 4:30 to 6 and that’s from ages 7 up to 14. That’s something not many people have offered much around here, an opportunity for younger talent as well.

Having worked both in front of and behind the camera here in the state, what would you say makes Mississippi a good place for filmmaking?

First and foremost it would be the people, which I’ve been fortunate enough to grow up with and be around my whole life. You can get a lot more done on a budget shooting in Mississippi because the people are very generous and always looking to help the next person and just do what they can to help the film culture grow here. And man, there’s been so many famous people, when you really look at it, that have come out of Mississippi from all aspects of life: the blues, filmmaking, sports, acting. Just tons of talent that’s come out of here.  But at the end of the day, filmmaking is just a business like everything else. And in any business that I’m in, if I want to get better at it, then I know it’s going to take other talented people’s help. That’s all not to mention the great film incentive we have here too.

What are your hopes for the future of the film industry in Mississippi?

I saw firsthand when the work dipped off after the legislature changed the film incentive in 2017. We had built up a good crew base, and then those people that we developed and created right here in our home state ended up having to go somewhere else to do the work. Thankfully, our incentive came back to what it was, but we’re still building back the crew. I don’t want that to ever happen again. So, I hope Mississippi continues to grow and strengthen its film incentive. It doesn’t have to be rapid, just a slow, continuous incline. Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia all have strong incentives too, so I think being here in Mississippi is a great spot for an actor like me. Very seldomly in Mississippi do you see someone come in here, make a movie and then you don’t see them come back again. I think that says a lot for our potential for growth.

For more information on upcoming workshops and classes, visit webbcreativestudios.com.