Karen Gillan
Karen Gillan
Karen Sheila Gillanis a Scottish actress and former model. She is known for the role of Amelia Pond, companion to the Eleventh Doctor, in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. In film, she has starred as Jane Lockhart in Not Another Happy Ending, Kaylie Russell in the horror film Oculus, and Nebula in the Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxyand its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth28 November 1987
CityInverness, Scotland
I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.
I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
All I look for is good quality stuff. Whatever I read, if I like it, then I want to do it. It's as simple as that. I don't have a master plan of, "I should do this genre, and then this."
How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.
I would say probably not being able to do what I want to do and not being completely fulfilled and happy. I don't know how that would manifest itself in a mirror. It's just that feeling of not being satisfied with my life would be the worst thing that could ever happen to me.
Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.
I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.
I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me.