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My first job was in pantomime; I was a chorus girl in 'Dick Whittington' at 16. I got the part by ringing the director daily to see if anyone had dropped out, and it paid off eventually, when I was cast as a rat!

— Celia Imrie

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

— Michael Ironside

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

— John Hurt

My first paying job was a in a production of Neil LaBute's 'Bash: Latter Day Plays' at the Union Street theater in Borough. I played the 'Medea Redux' character. That was my first job out of drama school. I can't remember how much I got paid. I'm sure it was pennies.

— Juliet Rylance

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

— Jaime Winstone

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

— Anna Chancellor

My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.

— Denis O'Hare

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

— Ajay Naidu

✗Opposing Perspectives

My first job was playing 'Nurse 2' in a film by Ben Elton called 'Maybe Baby,' and the first actors I worked with professionally were Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. I was totally star-struck. I got that job on my final day of drama school, so it was a nice bridge into the professional world.

— Shelley Conn

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

— Ashley Madekwe

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

— Mathieu Amalric