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it was good news followed by bad news I had got in but the fees to attend a school like this were not cheap, and despite my best efforts I had not received any government funding I auditioned again the following year and this time I received 40% funding but this was still just money that we didn't have and it broke my heart.

I was good enough I made the cut, but I wasn't going anywhere it was a blessing in disguise, although if anyone would have said that to me back then I probably would have given on the finger and told them to jog on.

I wasn't willing to give up that easily, so at age 11, I was bursting with excitement when my dance teacher informed me of a talent show which boasted opportunities of making you a star.

this was the second opportunity I was faced with I entered into singing acting dancing and modeling the talent show consisted of workshops and seminars with specialists who would help train you up for your performance at the end of the week.

after me, a woman called Louise Johnston in an improvisation acting workshop, she gave me the words bowling ball and asked me to create a short scene inspired by these words.

after making her laugh with a fictional story of how I threw a bowling ball that my brother and it bounced, she asked me to join her acting agency, I didn't really know what this men I knew that I would do auditions for films and maybe become an actor but I still have big dreams of becoming a professional dancer.

so this woman was gonna have to work a lot harder than that if she was gonna convince eleven-year-old me that I was gonna become an actress.

was this gonna take time away from the 30 hours of dancing? was doing a week and what if I didn't get the part? was this gonna be too upsetting?and do actresses have teeth like mine? because if they do I'm yet to watch any of their movies.

after meeting Louise in the February of 2009 and trying but failing to land the part in the hit sequel Nanny McPhee to the Big Bang, my second audition was for a show called Game of Thrones, this was the third opportunity or challenge I was presented with.

I climbed the steps to the Methodist Church with my mother's hand in mine, I perched my tiny bottom and one of the seats outside the audition room and listened to an annoying girl with her, even more annoying mother tell me all about the number of auditions she had done, prior to this one and also about her pet fish.

my name was cool then I stepped inside I had a hard breast Olien accent and dark rings around my eyes that were so big, they took up half my face and a hole in the knee of my trousers which I tried to cover with my left hand.

I was talking to the current lady who taped my audition but as soon as she press record it, all drifted away, much like when I was dancing in my mother's living room, I harnessed all of my insecurities and self-doubt and let it flow through the words that came out of my mouth.

I was cheeky, I was loud, I was angry and for this I was perfect after getting the par and shooting the pilot episode, the shows slowly grew to become one of the biggest shows in television history.

to this day, we've smashed previous HBO viewing records, we've been nominated for over 130 Emmys, making us the most Emmy nominated show to ever exist.

we've recently finished shooting our eighth and final season which is predicted to smash records that we've already broken and nearly a decade to the day since my first audition.

I'm still wondering when am I gonna get to be Billy Elliot, I joke but in all seriousness, I have absolutely no plans of slowing down throughout my time in this industry, it has been a minefield I have grown from a child into an adult and from four feet tall into a whopping five feet tall.