Jessica Brown Findlay
English actress
A ballet dancer. I danced from age two to 19. Giving up was not a choice; I had complications in an ankle operation.
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A saint. Then a ballerina.
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Never making it into a Sondheim musical.
I would have gone to my singing lessons at Guildhall.
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