I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.
I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.
I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.
I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.
I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.
My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.
I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then I moved up to Yorkshire, which is in the north of England. I lived on the farms up there.