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“We didn’t have TV before I was eight,” she recalls, “and I will always be grateful to my parents for that, because we developed our imaginations by creating our own stories.” As a youngster she watched a lot of movies, especially American ones, but it wasn’t the screen divas that caught her eye – it was the Tinseltown clowns. “I admired Greta Garbo but I didn’t want to be her,” she laughs. “I wanted to be Charlie Chaplin. And I wanted to be Peter Sellers.”

Empire UK, April 2011.