Do We Owe Missy Higgins An Apology?
Mamamia Out Loud
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But from a young age, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
I paid for my own ballet lessons from the $4 an hour job at the daggy old Brunswick Heads fish and chip shop and bought the family car at 16 to go to auditions.
As Mum has always said to me, "San, you’ve got tenacity." I ended up at one of Australia’s leading drama schools at 17 on a scholarship at the Queensland University of Technology.
My first professional acting job came when one of my most admired role models, the formidable First Nations actor, writer, director, Leah Purcell reached out to me to perform in the creative development of the play,