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• ‟ My first secondary school was in East Finchley, and I was one of only five white people in the year. I was really skinny and flat-chested with frizzy hair. I don't consider myself posh, but my mum brought me up to speak properly, and they picked up on that, as all kids do.

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• ‟ I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

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• ‟ I had to learn to jog because I run like a fish. All my friends found the thought of me running on screen hysterical because I do absolutely no exercise.

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• ‟ I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else.

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• ‟ I think if someone was really rude to me in an audition, even someone quite important, I think I'd be, 'What are you doing? Don't talk to me like that!'

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• ‟ My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

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• ‟ I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.

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• ‟ I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.

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• ‟ In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.

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• ‟ My friends still see me as the girl they went to school with. We're very much home bunnies.

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• ‟ I didn't tell anyone in school that I was going to be in 'Skins.' I was terrified of them putting me down.

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• ‟ Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.

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• ‟ I'm not good at dressing up. I always feel a bit out of place. It's just not me - high heels and designer dresses - and I can't seem to get used to it.

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