KENNESAW - Like many, Denise Yudiskas of Kennesaw plans to go to the theater on June 4 to see Ashton Kutcher's new movie, "Killers," in which Kutcher plays an undercover CIA agent who falls in love. Unlike the rest of us, she hopes to catch a glimpse of herself up on the silver screen.

Yudiskas, 57, has been working as an extra in movies over the past decade, first playing a teacher in a little-known prison film titled, "Unshackled," featuring Morgan Fairchild. Since then, she has appeared in more than a dozen movies, including "The Blind Side," "We Are Marshall," "Zombieland," and "Dumb and Dumberer."

All of the movies she has appeared in have been filmed in and around Atlanta. The New Jersey native earns about $120 a day for being on set for up to 12 hours a day, sometimes for months. It's fun and exciting work, but not enough to quit her day job as a paraprofessional art teacher at Lockheed Elementary School in Marietta, she said.

"You need a good steady job, one that gives you sick and personal days," Yudiskas said.

"When you do decide to work, you have to know that there might be delays. You can't expect the babysitter to leave at 9 p.m.; you may have to work until 12. You just can't have any restrictions for that day."

And just because an extra puts in a long day's work, doesn't guarantee he or she will make it through the film editing process and onto the big screen. Yudiskas has only had one speaking role in a film, "The Blind Side." She played a parent of a graduate, teacher and a game attendee, but one of her character's conversations with Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock was ultimately deleted.

"They cut it out and had her walk by me instead," recalled Yudiskas, after pausing the movie scene on her home DVD player in which she appears for roughly 3 seconds. "I was so annoyed."

Her most interesting moment on a set came during the filming of "We Are Marshall." Youdiskas remembered accidentally bumping into the film's star, Matthew McConaughey, on an Atlanta football field.

"I like to talk. Everyone knows I like to talk and I wasn't paying attention and I bumped into him," she recalled. "He said, 'Excuse me ma'am,' and I said, 'Oops.' I got a dirty look from the director."

In the 1970s, Youdiskas was a clothing model in New York City. She and her husband, Michael Youdiskas, moved to Georgia in the early 1990s. They have four grown children. A daughter, Tara, was first cast in "Unshackled." One day while waiting for her daughter to finish, a film crewmember asked Denise Yudiskas if she wanted $100 and a part sitting in a crowd. She accepted and has since gotten all but one of her children extra roles in movies.

"My regret is that I didn't know about this when I was younger," she said. "I could have done 'Saturday Night Fever.'"

Her husband, a retired AT&T employee, was not a fan at first. But he has come around to accepting what has become his wife's hobby and says he wouldn't rule out becoming an extra if an opportunity presented itself.

"I used to try to stop her when she used to bring the kids years ago," said Michael Yudiskas in a heavy New Jersey accent. "Now I just says she's bringing money in and she gives me the money so I can get something out it. What do I care."

Sometimes Denise Yudiskas' personal life has prevented her from doing movies. She said she has missed doing two Tyler Perry movies because of an anniversary trip to Costa Rica and a planned cruise.

There are a handful of casting agencies she keeps in contact with and regularly checks film studio websites to see what movies will be filming locally. Recently, she filmed a TBS pilot for a comedy called "Franklin & Bash," starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, better known as Zack Morris from "Save by the Bell." She also hopes to appear in Bill Murray and Robert Duvall's "Get Low" in July, in rapper Bow Wow's "Lottery Ticket," coming to theaters in August, and actor Owen Wilson's "Hall Pass" movie scheduled for release in 2011.

The movie star Denise Yudiskas said she would most like to work on a set with is Smyrna's own Julia Roberts. Until then, she said she is contemplating getting an agent in order to get speaking parts and do TV commercials.

"I've been quite lucky having different things that they've said 'you're perfect' when I show up," she said.