What made you want to become an actor?

My becoming an actor was really an organic journey. My mum put me into amateur dramatics when I was seven, and I thrived there, loving every moment right through my teens. I studied drama and music at school with fantastic teachers before auditioning for drama school. At first, I thought I wanted to pursue musical theatre, but after a London school turned me down, I applied for a course in Glasgow that was more play-driven was the best thing that could have happened. It lit a fire in my heart and soul and led me on to three years at drama school. While training, I was fortunate to secure an agent and land my first professional job at Dundee Rep Theatre, where I spent a year rehearsing one play by day and performing another at night, an incredible stepping stone to hone my craft and work my socks off.

 

Which celebrity is your character most like and why?

My character is closest to J.K. Simmons’ Fletcher in Whiplash , tough love that inspires but can also destroy. Add a dash of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross, Heath Ledger’s Joker, and Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. She’s been described as Lady Macbeth meets Miss Havisham, with the elegance of a perfumed, manicured female Freddy Kruger. Complex, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.

What would your character’s drink of choice be?

My characters drink of choice would be a martini with a twist: sharp, elegant, and class, but cross her at your peril!

If you weren’t playing your character, which character in the show would you want to play and why?

Honestly, I wouldn’t want to play anyone else, this is the part of a lifetime! If I weren’t doing it, I’d happily be in the audience. The boys knock it out of the park with such complexity and genuine warmth, I’d love to just sit back with a grin and watch them work their magic.

 

If you weren’t an actor, what would you be?

If not acting I still want to be telling stories. Producing feels like a natural path alongside acting and I’ve just completed the Producing Your First Feature course at the National Film and Television School. I’m already developing projects, because I love building stories from the ground up and championing voices that might not otherwise be heard.

Who would voice the billionaire inside your head?

The billionaire inside my head? Definitely Joanna Lumley who else could motivate, inspire, and gently boss me around while sounding like pure velvet?

 

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