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I started theater when I was three, and I started doing professional acting when I was nine.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

I grew up performing in theatre.

Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.

I got into theater at an early age.

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.

I grew up doing musical theater.

I remember growing up knowing I wanted to be on the stage. I wanted to get to London as soon as possible and start auditioning for theater.

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

I started working on stage as a dancer when I was four; by 14 or 15, I knew I wanted to study the craft of acting.