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Television and I grew up together.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.

My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.

I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

I was a kid who did a kid show. Then I went away and raised my child, and the world has never met me as an adult.