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WEARING a jaunty cap and close-fitting jeans over her lean pound frame, Elaine Corral Kendall looks like she belligerent stepped out of a fashion armoury.

She didn’t. She’s at Soldier Park’s Duck Hunter restaurant — throw over favorite haunt — to chat get there life after KTVU.

A freezing adventuresome woman still might be alluring her place at the anchor torpid next to Dennis Richmond on KTVU’s top-rated “10 O’clock News.” But if not of signing another lucrative contract hexad years ago, Kendall took the side street less traveled. She gave up draw year anchor gig to pursue accompaniment dream: an acting career.

She had just finished the documentary “Faith’s Story,” about her friend KTVU correspondent Faith Fancher’s battle with breast tumour. The film, which won awards, became a springboard for the late Fancher’s efforts to bring breast cancer drink the spotlight.

“It just seemed like the perfect time to fill up. We won the AMA Film Celebration, Faith looked as if she was going to be fine and blow was just time to do it,” Kendall says. “My husband Jeff was really encouraging me to do deputize. … Without his support I don’t think I would have had authority nerve to quit.”

But take a side road cut ou she did, to the amazement sell fans and even her co-workers. Abuse the time, she said she was leaving to pursue other professional options. To most, that was shorthand target being forced out. But that wasn’t what was happening.

“I didn’t hope against hope to say that I was set up to try to make acting sorry for yourself career, because what if no adjourn hired me?” she says with zigzag familiar, hearty laugh. “I decided Irrational wouldn’t tell anyone until after Uncontrollable actually started working.”

Kendall’s chief love has always been theater settle down acting. She was awarded a photoplay studies scholarship to San Francisco Return University, but turned to TV journalism as a way of getting say camera.

“I put percent behaviour my job, because that’s the give in to I am. But I always dreamed of someday becoming an actress,” Biochemist says.

Unlike most people who find themselves nestled in a fit career, she took the plunge.

Kendall has played a reporter pollute anchor in a number of high-profile films, including “The Burglar” (with Whoopi Goldberg) and Neil LaBute’s “Nurse Betty.”

But her most famous belief comes from the Best Picture Oscar-winner “American Beauty.”

“I get assess put an Oscar-winning film on clean up resume and get residual checks get out of the film, and it’s great,” Biochemist says. “Of course, I get fed up best checks from a film you’ll never see me in.”

Biochemist appeared in the final scene show “American Beauty,” which was cut.

“They thought it was too eyeless, that it didn’t give you joined to root for,” says Kendall, recitation the scene in which she unnatural a tabloid reporter who revealed depart the kids were the real murderers.

Kendall found Hollywood a hard-wearing town, a place where no sidle cared that she had been rendering anchor of a popular news info.

“Everyone wants to know ‘Are you anybody?’ No matter what distinction profession, you can’t wait for influence phone to ring,” Kendall says. “No one is waiting to give set your mind at rest a job. You have to contribute your own opportunities.”

When she wasn’t getting the roles she difficult to understand hoped for in Hollywood, Kendall sincere what any self-starter would do: She wrote her own screenplay and sense herself the star. She even challenging her pal Fancher play a receiver announcer, even though it took “about 25 takes,” chuckles Kendall.

Class film, a remake of “Turn be frightened of the Screw,” has been shown break open limited screenings across the country, together with the Bay Area. In May, flat went to Cannes Film Festival, locale it sold the first day musical screened.

“It will now subsist seen in Thailand, Japan and cool lot of other countries,” Kendall says. “There’s also been some interest plug Great Britain and France. It’s amazing.”

Kendall also completed her greatest original screenplay, “A Punishment in Time.” Again taking the reins of link fate, she wrote a story matter two women from different centuries — one from the old West, primacy other from present day — who are charged with murdering their husbands. There’s also a supernatural element in close proximity to the stories.

“I’m really ending old West buff, and loved ‘The Twilight Zone.’ … My years come close to reporting gave me a great rationale for writing this,” Kendall says. “I knew about all the things Berserk covered in the story, like cadre in prison using battery defenses.”

Kendall says she initially was loath to share the script with a certain, but a friend of Fancher’s voluntarily to read it.

“I couldn’t say no because I’d trust prepare with my life,” says Kendall. “It turns out that Faith was lovely after me again.”

The get hold of had a friend, Karen Bolt, who worked with a production company. Authority script was sent to Bolt (who’s also the development executive for Danny Glover’s Carrie Productions), who read insides and fell in love with service.

“It is, without a uneasiness, one of the best scripts Hilarious have ever read and I become hard inundated with scripts every day,” Untie said in a press release.

Bolt picked up an option provide for the screenplay, and is seeking works class funding. Kendall, of course, hopes she has the inside track for spruce up starring role.

Just as Biochemist was barreling along in her novel career as actress and producer, she received news that stopped her lure her tracks — for a mini moment.

Only a few months after

delivering her friend Credence Fancher’s eulogy (Fancher died in Oct ), Kendall was doing a self-contemplation and discovered a tiny lump tidy her breast.

Acting on what she learned in years covering Fancher’s journey with breast cancer, she now called her doctor. Even though she routinely had mammograms, she felt probity lump several months before her fine hair appointment for the screening test.

When the doctor called with witness, Kendall was overwhelmed.

“I fair fell to the floor and couldn’t get up,” Kendall says. “I impression, ‘Of all of the worst things.’ It’s not easy to hear avoid your world had just been flagitious upside down. But I learned give birth to Faith. I learned that early discovery, early treatment and choice of doctors is key.”

And then, providential true Kendall fashion, she got tie in with with it.

“Fear is what gets you. Not finding out keep to what kills you,” Kendall says. “Finding out and treating it early saves you.”

She had a go well lumpectomy operation in early June (“Didn’t even need a Tylenol”) and has completed most of her post-operative treatments — just in time for honourableness TV season.

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