Al Dollar

When your last name is “Dollar” you hear jokes all the time. As a kid, it was “Hey Richie Rich, where’s your dog, Dollar?” And since I share a name with my Dad, no I am not related to Creflo, the school bus driver liked to call me “50 Cent” long before the rapper wrote his first rap hit!

As I was growing up, people asked if I was going to be a game show host, a used car salesman and even a porn star - “Al Dollar, make ya holla!” Of course there are always the old standards, “can I borrow a dollar?” and “you must be rich!” And for the record, it is spelled D-O-L-L-A-R, just like the money… not “just like M-O-N-E-Y!”

Born and raised in Atlanta, I knew the minute my mom dressed me as a peanut for my kindergarten promotion, I wanted to perform. I started singing in church and would learn all of my mom’s aerobic routines, which is how I found my love for dance! Dance classes led to my first performance of “Music Man” at the age of 12. Soon I was taking acting classes with the Alliance Theatre and continuing to appear on theatre stages around Atlanta. I was barely out of school when I toured with Madeline Kahn who was playing the lead in “Hello, Dolly!” What a masterclass!

While my sweet, southern charm was great for All-American storybook roles - a European tour aboard the original Love Boat, a cowboy in the “Diamond Horseshoe Jamboree” at Walt Disney World, Alan in the “Magical World of Barbie” and even some brief appearance on “The Mickey Mouse Club” with Britney, Justin and Christina - now I am all grown up.

I can possess the charismatic and trusting, yet dangerously smart and manipulative qualities of a sex cult leader or deliver the creepy, odd and quiet introverted pervert who works at the mall during the day and trolls the internet from his mother’s basement at night. Shake the eight-ball again and you get a nerdy, forensic scientist with a weird sense of humor, into cosplay and loves dead bodies.

Regardless, when your name is AL DOLLAR, “More bang for your buck!” (or booking!)