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Chloe Pirrie

(1987) Actor

19 quotes in 92 categories

Chloe Pirrie is an actor.

Quick Facts About Chloe Pirrie

Born: August 25, 1987
Profession: Actor

About Chloe Pirrie

[Wikidata] Scottish actress... | [Wikipedia] Chloe Pirrie is a Scottish actress. She is known for her performance in the 2012 film Shell, and more recently in the TV series Under the Banner of Heaven (2022) and Dept. Q (2025). Other credits include the TV series The Game (2014), War & Peace (2016), The Living and the Dead (2016), Brief Encount

Quotes by Chloe Pirrie

I like people who do what they do incredibly well and are active in their non-acting life, too.

Life

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There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate…

Actor

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If you are ever on stage, and it feels as though the audience is not laughing at the right points or are…

Falling

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'Wuthering Heights' is portrayed as a great romantic novel, and when I read it again, I thought, 'How is this romantic? All…

Again

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Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish -…

Always

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I went to anything that was on at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. I was quite geeky. There was a production of 'Look…

Anger

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People look at your CV and assume you jump from job to job to job. They don't see the months in between…

Job

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I definitely have had a couple of years where I've been working constantly, but it never goes away, that worry that you'll…

Funny

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It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of…

Hard

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It's interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.

Alive

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I subconsciously mimic whomever I'm talking to, so I've been mistaken for a Canadian, a South American, and somebody from the West…

American

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London can be quite lonely and a hard place to live, but I do love it. It is where I forged my…

Hard

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I applied to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and didn't get in the first year, so I worked…

Drama

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I've always waitressed between roles. When 'Black Mirror' was on, I was still flipping burgers. Customers would recognise me while asking for…

Always

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I got offered 'Black Mirror,' and my boyfriend and I were so excited. I used to read Charlie Brooker's column growing up.

Black

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I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when…

Character

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When I got 'Youth,' I also got a small role in 'Star Wars.' I didn't know what to do. I decided to…

Character

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It was a sort of weird, troubled road into acting because I had been a bit naughty in school until I did…

Acting

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I grew up in Edinburgh, but my dad's from Glasgow, and my mum's from Chingford in Essex, and I spent time in…

Dad

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