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When I left school I went to Australia for a year and worked in the drama department of a school in Perth.

I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.

I got quite the college experience.

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.