I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.
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I never really considered acting as a career. I kind of fell into it. Originally, I wanted to be a painter.
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.
I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.
I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.
My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.
I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.
I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.