English - Actress | March 27, 1988 -
I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.
Holliday Grainger
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I come from a very loving, stable background where I've been persuaded to just be myself and anything is possible.
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You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.
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To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.
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I'd love to do more independent films.
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I seem to play a lot of troubled kids.
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I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.
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I don't really have any strategy for my career.
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I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have.
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Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.
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'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.
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The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde.
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