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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.

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Martin Sheen American actor
Golfer, priest, police officer, teacher and, after going to the movies, actor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗
Fay Ripley English actress, television presenter, cookbook author
Donny Osmond’s wife. Still do.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗
Griff Rhys Jones British actor and comedian
An actor. Then I grew out of that and became one by default. Or sort of one: “Not really an actor”, said Michael Billington.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2017 source ↗

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