There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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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 have done a lot of theater.
I grew up performing in theatre.
I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy.
I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.
The theatre training is second to none in Ireland and England. You meet people who haven't had theatre training - it is harder for people who worked in TV to go into theatre than the other way around.
I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.
In White Plains I wasn't theatrical at all. I was a model and I used to take the train into New York three days a week to do travelogue work.