Michelle Gomez
Michelle Gomez
Michelle Gomezis a Scottish actress. She is best known for her comedy roles in Green Wing, The Book Group and Bad Education, and for playing Missy, a female incarnation of the Master, in the British television sci-fi series Doctor Who...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth21 April 1971
CityGlasgow, Scotland
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I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses.
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I've always been a gurner. I tried to reel it in. You know there was a period when I thought I was going to be a really serious actress, but the gurning... I can't get in control of it. It just runs away with me.
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I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't.
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I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.
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I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.
worrying
I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'
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I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.
slightly worried
I'm always slightly worried if I do a film and we're filming it in Luxembourg. I know it's going to go straight DVD.
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I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just make Shakespeare as vivid and live as possible.
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I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.
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It's good for me to pull away from something that is just done for effect, which was basically Sue White in 'Green Wing.' In that, it was very much: if in trouble, gurn, or fall down. There was no character background to Sue. You didn't know who she was. She didn't have any toehold in any kind of reality.
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The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself. I'm beginning to think of roles that I could do that I would not have allowed myself to think of before, saying: 'That's not for me, that's for the big guns.'
believe
The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself.
I think there is a difference between being a celebrity and being an actor.