I always wanted to be a teacher and I loved acting too. No one in my family had ever been to university. Acting appeared even less probable as a career, but I had an amazing drama teacher at school who encouraged me to audition for drama school; I had nothing to lose. At that time there was a system of grants that had to be auditioned for. If you didn't get a grant and couldn't afford the fees drama school was out of the question. I eventually auditioned successfully for East 15 School of Acting and was fortunate enough to be awarded a grant – without which drama school and the rest of my career wouldn't have been possible. But it was thanks to that drama teacher that I even took the chance.
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