I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.

My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.

If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.

I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.

The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may be crossed with impunity. A truer and more real place does not exist in all the universe.