About Me
To say that I wanted to be an actress from the age of five when I was cast in the Christmas play as a fairy, would be bending the truth. Yes, I liked the costume but when asked at that age by a teacher what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said 'a psychiatrist', to which I understand the teacher replied ' I think you mean a secretary'. 'No', I replied 'A psychiatrist'. We were both wrong. I went on to study Classics, and then the spectre of the fairy was to rear it's ugly head.After getting my Masters degree in Text and Performance from RADA, I faced this decision: do I take up a place to work on a PHD in the use of the chorus in Ancient Greek tragedy or do I accept the job as the Good Fairy in regional theatre (the original Fairy reluctantly admitting that when the show opened she would be eight months pregnant). There was no contest and so for about ten years I condemned myself to the uncertain life and finances of an actor.But I had an excellent time and have played women, children, teenage boys, old men, satyrs; worked on stage, in commercials, in Theatre in Eduction and corporates; chased a man on a bike in front of a green screen, been thrown in the air by six male models, auditioned with a Fraggle (it's body went on back to front, so it looked like I broke it's neck)and performed The Ballad of Sexual Obsession at an open audition for Calamity Jane for a bet.The panel let me get through the whole song, so I'm guessing that it wasn't one that they heard often.Relative sanity has now prevailed and I am currently working in fashion, in a tiny office surrounded by several recording studios and listening to wonderful sounds all day.
