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I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist.

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I grew up thinking that I would be an ambassador secret agent. From age 14 to right before I graduated college, I was really…

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My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

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In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.

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I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

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When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a…

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If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book…

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When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

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After university, I was desperate to be an ambassador. It went back to geography: I loved the idea of living in exotic and exciting…

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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

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As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French…

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The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I never really…

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