By the time she was a teenager, she had added singing to her repertoire, and when she went to college, she was determined to be an actor, graduating from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in acting and directing, a minor in music, lots of extra credits in dance and philosophy and an interest in yoga.
Rochdale-born actor Christine Bottomley graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama before landing her first TV acting role in 2001.
You moved to LA at 11 to be an actor and graduated from high school at 13. How does that even happen?
The Essex-born actor, who graduated from Rada in 2000, added: "Rada gives huge grants and funding to people from working-class backgrounds to be able to enrol, which is the only reason I could go".
Your primarily a stage actor and graduated the prestigious Yale School of Drama.
Which "Harry Potter" actor has graduated from the wand to his bare hands?
Actor Taylor Kitsch graduated from Gleneagle Secondary in 1999, and went on to star in movies such as John Carter and Battleship, and the television series Friday Night Lights.
Directors, writers and actors who graduated from Wesleyan, like Joss Whedon, the creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Bradley Whitford, an actor on NBC's "West Wing," and Michael Bay, the director of the films "Armageddon" and "Pearl Harbor," have made it big.
The Nest will be written by Paula Pell, who is a staff writer on Saturday Night Live, the comedy entertainment show that both actors have graduated from in recent years; Pell has also written episodes of Fey's TV comedy 30 Rock.
He first worked as an actor after graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand and now conceives and directs productions with the Handspring Puppet Company, which incorporate actors, musicians, puppets and animation.
