| ACTRESS | PERFORMER | WRITER | VOICE OVER | SINGER | STORYTELLER | ENTERTAINER |
Me, Myself and I
My genes (not my Jeans) dictated my journey to becoming a performer.
At Primary school I done impressions off Jimmy Osmond and Lena Zavaroni. Weekly I was sent to the headmaster for being a clown, every school report my whole education said “If only she listened instead of playing the fool she might learn something”.
I found drama classes, paid for by Saturday job and paper round. I learnt a lot, passed my Bronze, Silver and Gold LAMDA acting exams with honours. Won best Actress and Best Play “In need of Care” at the Surrey Youth Drama Festival.
My careers teacher asked me what I wanted to be, naturally I said an actress, so he signed me up for hairdressing!
I sang “Don’t rain on my parade” while washing the customer’s hair, blinding them with bubbles and sprinkling them with water, I was soon unemployable in the cut throat world of “Cut, wash and blow-dry”.
I joined my first professional Rep Theatre Company, 3 months short of my 16th Birthday “Silly Billy Pickles and the Peanut Street Gang” alongside Rupert Greaves who was “Silly Billy” and silly, not a bad start.
Me, Myself and my genes
I knew I was adopted, or not adopted, depends if you’re a “legal eagle” reading this?
My adopted Mum committed Bigamy after the WAR (2nd) She didn’t know, so in a nut shell, even though I was adopted by my Mum and Dad “Madge and Jack” they weren’t really married, so I wasn’t really adopted. I was born a Pierrot, Punchinello, Jester, Comic, clown and fool.
My genes told me, you are (I am) an Entertainer.
Me and my genes
I made my way as an actress, little jobs here and there, lots of comedy stuff on TV shows and Brit soaps, if anyone needed a younger version of Barbara Windsor, I got the job.
One glorious night in “Durys Hotel Bar” in Dublin having found half my real genes, an Irish lady by the name of Imelda, apparently called the Marilyn Monroe of Dublin back in her day.
She, Imelda spilled the beans about my other half real genes. My Dad was a singer and entertainer who went to Hollywood before the War “Sean Meaney”. It was the moment I knew who I really was, why I was here and this is me.
Actress, Performer, Writer, Voice over, Singer, Storyteller, Entertainer.