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Before getting into comedy, I went to University in Bristol to do Politics - parental pressure I suppose. I hadn't told anyone I wanted to be an actress although I knew from year dot that I wanted to be a comedienne. I discovered at 25 that Peter Cook was born in the same town I was (Torquay) and this, for some reason, gave me the inspiration and courage to admit my lifes dream.
So it was off to ALRA (drama school) to do a Post Grad Acting course. Not a single agent or casting director was interested after a terrible drama school production of The Women in which I said 4 lines, very badly, and sat in the background folding children's clothes, as a character choice.
So I worked as a PA in the charity sector for 6 years, whilst sneaking off for auditions in lunch breaks. One of which I got - an Alpen Ad in which I ate cat litter with Arabella Weir. The final place I worked as a PA was Comic Relief. I was PA to the Grants Director and I learnt so much - seeing and reading first hand where the money goes and how much people suffer as many of us live our unrealised priviledge lifes. It changed my outlook entirely and I am grateful for my time there. Doing something for Comic Relief this year as a performer was a real honour.
Whilst at Comic Relief, I kept plugging away - taking shows to Edinburgh - and badgering a number of producers and agents, some of whom kindly looked favourably on me. Or just got fed up with my insistence. So now I am able to do what I love - comedy - for a living.
My job is really important to me and I feel honoured to be in a business I adore. I used to watch Morecambe and Wise and Joyce Grenfell over and over again in hard times in my 20's and without them my life then would have been a duller place, so for that reason alone, I believe comedy is a noble art. Life is now good for the first time since my beloved school days. They genuinely were the best years of my life (until now) - it was a boarding school and I laughed and played lacrosse for 7 years in a Malary Towers existence. Heaven!
For work enquiries contact my agent: Duncan Hayes at PFD www.pfd.co.uk