Biography
I graduated from university in 2005 with a BA in Interior Architecture with Hons and have built up a successful interior design business with around 17 years experience. This has given me a great platform to now follow my true ambition of becoming a full time actor. When I was 11 years old, I wanted to go to drama school, but wasn't able to due to the financial implications, plus my parents encouraged me to follow a more 'legitimate' career path. Although I did not start in acting as I would have liked, when I was a child, I believe I am now a confident, more experienced and grounded person to take this challenge on now. In my spare time I write plays and have formed a first draft of a film script, so enjoy the movie process from beginning to end. I'm an artist too and take great pleasure is painting, drawing and making sculptures, when time allows. To further develop my career as an actor, I am attending year long, accredited acting courses with The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and feel I am growing with each class. Acting is most definitely my true calling and I feel an infinity with the people, environment and process.
Skills
Over the course of 1.5 years, with an acting training company, I was filmed in 5 short films and one feature film. All of which are accessible on YouTude or Netflix.
This being said, I feel I have learned the most whilst attending The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in the Acting 1 course. We have been using the Stanislavski technique and it has been eye opening and I have now implemented it through a monologue, duologue and now working on an ensemble.
To add to my experience I am working 1-to-1 with one of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland lecturers, to grow my classics training and to start filming monologues, to add to my work examples.
As a general rule of thumb, I work on my voice training at home at least 3 times a week, whilst also trying to develop my accents in American PR and English PR, but would love to expand that.
I am an emotional person and can apply this to the craft, through crying and big emotional work where required. This is also something I am developing as I go.
I've been in the Territorial Army and trained with the infantry, combat medic and some signals work. I went on many exercises, one of my favourite being with the Romanian Army in the Romania mountains.
I'm an artist and have been accredited with a fine art level ability.
I'm fit and can run a 10k in an hour, plus keep fit generally with weight training and HIIT.
I'm a mother of two, so have a strong maternal instinct and emotionally aware senses.
I love to horse ride and have done so since I was 6 years old.
I have a full clean motorbike licence and love to bike in hot weather.
In my spare time I spend a lot of time outdoors and when commitments allow I'm mountaineering in the Scottish countryside.