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Karen Gillan: just what the doctor ordered
Matthew Sweet21.05.10
Red alert! It's Karen Gillan: the giant flame-haired time-travelling Scotswoman with whom the British nation has fallen madly, hopelessly and devotedly in love. Here she comes, fresh from these photographs, pounding down the thickly carpeted stairs of Fulham Palace in a dirty great pair of heels and a shimmering fairy-tale frock, all six foot of her and, I can't help noticing, most of it leg.
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She left home at 16 to study performance at Telford College, Edinburgh, then followed in Bonnie Langford's spangled footsteps to the Italia Conti drama school near the Barbican. From there she started to get smallish roles on TV: a few lines in an episode of the detective show Rebus, a turn as a soothsayer in a David Tennant episode of Doctor Who, and spots as a comedy headmistress and a lesbian bride in The Kevin Bishop Show (no, me neither). Then the work dried up and the pint-pulling began. She spent a year behind the bar of The Pilgrim pub in Kennington, wondering if she'd done the right thing to launch herself into an acting career without formulating any kind of Plan B. It was brought to an end by a talent-spotter from a modelling agency, who noticed that Karen didn't have to stretch very far to reach the optics and asked if she fancied parading on the runway in the Allegra Hicks show at London Fashion Week 2007. 'It was depressing not working for so long,' she reflects. 'I hated not being involved in acting, but looking back on it I'm pleased it happened. Otherwise I wouldn't know what it's like to have a normal job.'
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