I was 6 years old when I announced to my parents I was going to be an actress. This didn’t surprise them. I’d caught the acting bug after my first lead role - Mary in the School Nativity, naturally. They always took me to weekend drama clubs and summer schools, and when I was 14 I signed with my first agent, who happened to be my drama teacher at the time, and I was auditioning for some pretty big stuff for the BBC and the like throughout my teens. The problem was, my parent