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I couldn't afford to go to drama school in London. Then I met with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and I fell in love with the city. It was one of the few schools that offered me a place. It didn't do me any harm.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.

I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; 'Game Of Thrones' has definitely brought me that.

When I came out of drama school, I was in a shared house in Sydney.

I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do.